June 24th, 2016
Mark your calendars for Thursday October 27th & Friday October 28th! The ECDA Fall Conference will be held in a BRAND NEW venue this year, at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown! Once again we have confirmed some very exciting and talented speakers to join us over two days of learning, growing, and networking. The conference will be focused on the topic of guidance.
Opening Keynote: Beyond Survival: The importance of being resilient when working with young children
with behaviour specialist Barbara Kaiser
We may not be able to control everything that is happening in the classroom, but we can control how we respond. When challenging behaviour occurs, teachers need to be powerfully present, emotionally responsive, and role models of healthy social and emotional behaviour. Personal resilience is the capacity to prevent, tolerate, overcome, and be enhanced by adverse events and experiences. When we lose control of ourselves, our response to a child’s inappropriate behaviour can make things worse. Strengthening our resilience allows us to moderate our feelings, thoughts, and behaviours, and enables us to respond effectively to challenges, and encourages us to develop new skills. Rather than focusing on managing stress, focusing on fostering resilience can be more productive.
More exciting information to come, stay tuned!!