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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Event: ECDA Fall Conference 2020

5A: Fostering Children’s Relationships with Nature and The Scream!!! Digging Deeper into How We Understand and Respond to Children’s Screams


Fostering Children’s Relationships with Nature (3 hours)

Description: In this workshop we will explore the importance of fostering children's relationships with nature by looking at how this relates to the development of the whole child and how it can better be incorporated into our daily practices. Participants will reflect on what they are currently doing in their classrooms to support this relationship as well as the contradictions and limitations. Together, we will look at how to better incorporate ideas/practices that support these relationships into a specific area of our classrooms and discuss how the ideas guiding the creation of this space might impact other parts of the environment and our pedagogical approach more broadly. Educators will expand their understanding of what it means to foster children’s relationship with nature  and feel more confident supporting this relationship regardless of their physical setting. As part of this workshop we will make time to go out and explore the outside environment ourselves, collecting materials, creating, and reflecting on how our own relationships to nature impact our practices.

The Scream!!! Digging deeper into how we understand and respond to children’s screams (2 Hours)

Description: “Use your words” Young children’s screams are often misunderstood, dismissed, quited, or even disciplined. In this workshop we will explore our own feelings about children’s screams and how these feelings impact how we respond to screams in the early learning setting. We will discuss the different ways screams are used by children, why they are important for educators to listen closely too, and how we can better respond to children’s screams. Educators will learn to see screams as overflowing with meaning and requiring of more thoughtful engagement.

 

Taylor Hansen has worked with young people in a variety of capacities and contexts for over 17 years, from being an Early Childhood Educator in Halifax to co-creating pedagogy with public school educators in the Republic of Georgia. She has always prioritized being open to new experiences in the service of young people in order to broaden her perspective and improve her practice. She currently is the NS Research Coordinator for the BRIGHT Coaching program study at the IWK, runs an early learning program focused on child-directed creative projects inspired by the natural world, and teaches in the Department of Child and Youth Study at MSVU. At its core her personal practice is about building relationships and she believes that it is in the context of relationships that we are able to understand one another and better meet the needs of young people.

Date & Time

November 12, 2020
9:00 AM

Location

Jack Blanchard Hall-- 7 Pond St, Charlottetown, PE C1A 2N9

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9A: Designing and Facilitating Natural Outdoor and Loose Parts Play for Early Childhood
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2B - Learning Environments: Embracing Today, Excited for Tomorrow
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3B: The Early Childhood Educator’s Role in Identifying and Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
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4B: We are all “Story Tellers” – and it can play havoc in communicating!
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5B: Fostering Children’s Relationships with Nature and The Scream!!! Digging Deeper into How We Understand and Respond to Children’s Screams 
November 13, 2020 9:00 AM

6B: ACEs, Trauma and Resiliency in Young Children
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7B: Pain....The Misunderstood Sensation
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8B -Promoting Literacy Education through Play
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9B - Designing and Facilitating Natural Outdoor and Loose Parts Play for Early Childhood
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Event Information
ECDA Fall Conference 2020
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This event has been approved by the Early Learning and Child Care Board for 12.50 professional development training hours.
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