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: 2021 ECDA Fall Conference- "Be the Leader You Would Follow"

2C: Are you stuck?


Are you "stuck"? this session is an opportunity to talk and share about your experiences, it can help fellow participants get "unstuck" or build a network of support. Matthew and Justin have a YouTube channel where they talk about topics of importance to them. One of their videos was about just that—being stuck and how to move on, what to do and how to work with your team both as a mentor and a mentee, we will branch off and build upon this talk to help guide our conversation

 

Facilitator Biographies:

Matthew Sampson, who has worked in the field of early childhood education for 20 years, recently graduated with a Master of Arts in Child and Youth Studies from Mount St Vincent University. In 2018, Matthew was the recipient of the Prime Minister's Award of Excellence in Early Childhood Education. He also co-authored "Zombie World: Boys Invent a Culture in their After-school Program" a chapter in Carol Anne Wien's book The power of emergent curriculum: Stories from Early Childhood Settings (2014). His research interests are emergent classroom environment design, emergent curriculum and pedagogical documentation.

Justin West is an instructor at NSCC in the Africentric Early Childhood Education diploma program. He has been in the field of Early Childhood Education for 19 years. A graduate from Humber College where he received his early childhood education diploma. He completed a B.F.A from NSCAD University and a Master's degree in Art Education from Boston University. In 2013 Justin received the Prime Minister's Award of Excellence in Early Childhood Education. Justin infuses creative expression into his daily practice with children and ECE students.

 

 

Date & Time

November 15, 2021
9:00 AM

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2021 ECDA Fall Conference- "Be the Leader You Would Follow"
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This event has been approved by the Early Learning and Child Care Board for 12.00 professional development training hours.
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