10 Reasons to Choose Quality Early Learning and Child Care

Expert knowledge Early childhood educators are experts in child development and are trained to create inspiring learning environments!
Intentionality Early childhood educators provide your child the gift of time and attention. They will stop and explore the new flowers or jump in the mud puddles with your child.
Young at heart Early childhood educators know how to have fun! They’re not afraid to be silly and laugh with your child; all while nurturing your child’s creativity and helping to build their self-confidence.
Setting limits Every child needs reasonable boundaries, such as no playing ball inside. Early childhood educators set limits and support families in doing the same.
Love of literacy Early childhood educators read and tell stories, sing songs, and do puppet shows to inspire a love of language and to build early literacy skills.
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Confidence boost Early childhood educators provide safe opportunities for your child to be independent and to become confident in their personality and decision making skills.
Inspired learning Early childhood educators ask open-ended questions to inspire creative thought and curiosity, to encourage children to explore, and to make learning fun.
Life skills Early childhood educators use their expertise to develop programs that use play as a tool for teaching math, literacy, science and essential life skills that last for life!
Making friends Early childhood educators are educated to appropriately support children to gain social skills, which are so important in making friends and developing positive relationships!
Helping hand Everyone gets stumped by parenting from time to time - juggling schedules, demands, and behaviours. When it gets tough and you need someone to talk to, reach out to your child’s early childhood educator!
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This event has been approved by the Early Learning and Child Care Board for 4.00 professional development training hours.

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Pre-conference Day for Directors with Veronica Smith, Sonya Hooper & Detry Carragher

Begin the day with Veronica Smith, Ph.D, an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Psychology at the University of Alberta. Smith reviews the small base of research literature that explores Early Childhood Educator well-being (e.g., Hall-Kenyon, Bullough, MacKay, & Marshall, 2014) and how it is linked to a sense of ‘doing a good job’ otherwise referred to as teacher efficacy, on the one hand, and workplace ‘burnout,’ on the other hand. Smith describes a research project conducted in Alberta where they examined whether Early Childhood Educator beliefs and endorsement of teaching children about emotions was associated with the Educator’s own well-being. They hypothesized and found that if Educators felt that teaching children about emotions was important, their own well-being would be positively impacted. That is, they would have greater understanding of how emotion regulation contributes to well-being, healthy development, and supports optimal development for children who have challenging behaviours.

In addition, Smith will discuss other links that they found with teaching efficacy, or confidence in the Educator’s ability to support children’s development was related to their own well-being.

Sonya Hooper will then speak to the findings of a recent HR Survey ECDA performed across the PEI ELCC field. Discussing some of the knowns and unknowns that the results alert us to. Participants will discuss the impacts on the field and begin to consider solutions for identifies HR gaps and share best practice ideas!

Spend the afternoon with Detry Carragher as she delves into subtle and overt factors that influence employee recruitment, retention, and engagement. In this session, she will also highlight how to spot signs which may be indicative of occupational burnout and suggest strategies for supporting an employees' well-being. Participants will be actively engaged to identify creative workplace initiatives that can spark and rejuvenate teams and centres.

Pre-conference Day - Wednesday, November 7
9:00 - 9:30 AM - Registration
8:30 - 10:00 AM - Veronica Smith
10:00 - 10:30 AM - Nutrition Break
10:30 - 11:15 AM - Sonya Hooper
11:15 - 12:30 AM - Lunch (provided)
12:30 - 2: 30 PM - Detry Carragher

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