The heart of this presentation is orality and its importance in language / literacy development as well as social and emotional development. Children have to hear language in order to learn language and orality. Storytelling, chants, and fingerplays serve as the necessary preparation for what we call literacy.
Focuses on the importance of story telling. Parents and educators will learn techniques to engage children to make them part of the story as opposed to being simply an observer to the story.
Real play is essential to development as a contributor to the well-being of all young children. The presenters' concern regarding the possibility of society's having gone too far past remembering how to play and why it is crucial to our survival as a species will be discussed.
Looking Through the Eyes of Boys & Girls
Increase your awareness of boys and girls: how they learn; how to educate them based on brain science research; and how to create the ultimate environment that supports boy's and girl's needs.
By examining what distinguishes a brain impoverished environment from a brain enriching environment, participants will strengthen their understanding of how children learn as well as enhance their ability to address the needs of children both at school and home.
This presentation is a personal growth workshop for parents and educators that examines how our work with children is affected by our own childhoods and level of self-awareness. Bev will present her Conditions for Growing Wiser and offers evidence of the connection they have to and importance of real play.
Each type of invitation gets a different type of child. Most of the time, these invitations are unconscious...
This presentation will explore each type of invitation and its effect on children's development. Recognizing that the goal of the teachers and parents is to send invitations that value children's needs and creates a climate of belonging.
When adults are dealing with sadness or the death or dying of a loved one they must be careful not to neglect the needs of the child. Too often adults think children are incapable of having or undertanding intense emotions. But everday children are exposed to views of violence and death with no oppportunity for reconciliation. This workshop is designed to help adults understand the developmental way children think and react when faced with difficult times.