Wanting to feel more excited about learning and playing outside during the rainy months? Join us for a lighthearted and practical conversation about the opportunities, challenges, and logistics about programming in wet, cold, and soggy situations. We’ll talk about how to shift mindsets about the rain, how to dress to stay warm and dry, play invitations involving puddles, potential inquiry studies that may emerge when being in the rain, and more.
Facilitator Biography:
Karen Begley is an educational consultant from B.C who works with educators, families, and organizations, to align care and learning practices with the values of the community, families, and organizations. She is a strong advocate of child-led learning, learning through play, and place-based programming. Karen's background includes 20 years of working with children of all ages and their families in place-based outdoor education and arts-based programming, 10 years of teaching elementary school, and 6 years of facilitation. Karen holds a B.Ed. with a specialization in ECE, a B.A. in History (focusing on the social history of education), and a post-graduate diploma in Teacher Librarianship where she focused on early literacy experiences, all from the University of British Columbia. She has extensively studied the Reggio Emilia Approach and Place-based learning principles in her formal education and professional development experiences and uses these as the foundation of all her programs
Please note: Participants will be given the link to the video and are required to participate in one of two ways-- with a microphone/built in speaker (such as the one built into your phone) or through chat. In addition there will be a log tracking which members contribute and which do not, and those that do not contribute will not receive PD hours.