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Start with a Book! Extending the Story with Hands-On Activities

Nancy Tovell

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 16 spaces remaining

Looking for new ideas to integrate into your programs and services? This virtual workshop will help refresh and rejuvenate your planning process with practical, fun ideas that support play-based, early learning activities. A variety of literacy extension ideas based on children's picture books will be introduced. This workshop is ideal for those working with infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Content includes:

• Reviewing the importance of play-based, child-led literacy activities in the early years

• Exploring a wide variety of early literacy extension activities that can be easily integrated into current programming

• Providing a suggested children's book and activities listing that scaffolds on the ideas introduced in the workshop

 

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Philosophies and Theories of Early Care & Learning

Jennie Roberts

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online | 16 spaces remaining

During this workshop participants will research, analyze and compare four education philosophies: Frobel, Montessori, Reggio and Waldorf, to reflect on what is quality and how it relates to our current practice, methods and theory.

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Wait List: Alert Emergency Childcare First Aid CPR/AED - Level C

Alert Facilitator

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm | Location: Archway Community Services ( Jasbir Saran Room ) | Wait List

This fun and interactive 8 hour course trains people how to react and improvise when dealing with life threatening emergencies. This course includes initial assessment, disease prevention, secondary survey, airway obstruction, adult, child and infant CPR and AED (level C). Recognition and first-aid treatment for head and spine injuries, shock, burns, bleeding, seizures, broken bones, anaphylactic shock, small wound management, poisoning, heat exhaustion and heat stroke will also be addressed. Participants spend the majority of the course doing hands on first-aid and participating in first-aid scenarios. By practicing with scenarios students gain confidence, learn to improvise, and react in emergency situations. This course meets Child Licensing guidelines.

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Little Bodies, Big Emotions

Michele Maurer

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm | Location: Archway Community Services ( Jasbir Saran Room ) | 15 spaces remaining

This workshop brings a combination of attachment and developmental science woven with stories that bring the science to life. Topics include the weaving together of attachment, early child development (and understanding immaturity at any age), emotion and essential feelings, how emotion and relationships with caring adults work together, helping children develop virtues, the essence of true play and how all these elements play a critical role in growing up and in caring for children. Participants will actively participate with scenarios and Q & A. Emotion and Play Scenarios, Making Sense of kids’ behaviours through attachment, development and emotion.

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Child Care Start-Up Information Session

Wanda Cole & Christine Kopp

Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Location: Online | 28 spaces remaining

Are you interested in opening your own child care centre and not sure where to start?

Join our CCRR consultants for a 1 hour information session that will provide you the beginning steps of starting and opening your in-home or commercial setting child care centre.

 

*NO CERTIFICATE IS GIVEN FOR THIS INFORMATION SESSION

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Fair Working Environment for Early Childhood Educators: Learn About Your Rights

Nora Bergh

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 19 spaces remaining

JES (Justice Education Society) has designed a workshop to help EGE educators their employers/managers navigate their legal rights and responsibilities. Workshop objective: Human rights in the workplace. How to create an inclusive workplace. What to do if you experience discrimination or harassment at work. How to provide a safe, fair, and compliant workplace for employees.

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