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Building Foundational Communication & Social Interaction Skills for Children with Special Needs

Farrah Rahim & Andrea Rizzuto

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm | Location: Online | 23 spaces remaining

Communication is a fundamental aspect of human interaction, enabling us to connect, express our needs, and build relationships. For children with special needs, developing effective communication and social interaction skills is particularly crucial. This workshop aims to equip educators with the knowledge and tools necessary to support these children in their journey towards effective communication and socialization.

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We Dig Dinosaurs (and so much more!): Following Children’s Interests in Early Learning Settings

Nancy Tovell

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Location: Online | 20 spaces remaining

Join us as we explore the importance of encouraging, celebrating and building on the ideas and interests of young children in early childhood settings. Together we'll look at stories, rhymes, songs and hands-on activities that can be adapted to the interests of the children in various early learning environments while encouraging numeracy, literacy, gross and fine motor skills. Participants will have the opportunity to work with others to develop their own ready-to-use interest-based lesson/activity plans as we recognize the importance of following the lead of the children in our care. Best for those working with infants, toddlers and pre-school aged children.

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Delight! Excite! Inspire! Teach!

Simmy Zaret

Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm | Location: Online | 20 spaces remaining

This fun informative on-line workshop will investigate the essential elements needed to create an exciting, motivating, child-focused learning environment for children of all ages. Through a variety of interactive activities, discussion, and demos, we will zoom in on these critical components, so that you can ignite curiosity, assure understanding, impart practical skills, and heighten the emotional, social, and academic success for the children in your care.

During this two-hour virtual training session, you and other specially trained educators will come together to explore and share ideas pertaining to:

• The Vital Role You Play in the Lives of Those in Your Care

• The Impact Covid has had, in Working With the Children and Your Colleagues

• Piaget’s Stages of Early Childhood Cognitive Development

• Creative Child-Centred Program Planning Strategies

• Presentation Skills that Foster Engagement, Creativity, Fun, and Learning

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Child Care Start-Up Information Session

Wanda Cole & Christine Kopp

Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm | Location: Online | 30 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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Let Them Fall Down: Why Risky Play is Vital to Childhood Development

Belva Stone

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Location: Online | 20 spaces remaining

Learn why risky play is vital to childhood development in this 2 hour workshop. This workshop is for everyone who may be curious (and a bit uncomfortable) with risky play to those who are very comfortable with it. Let Them Fall Down is an opportunity to push personal boundaries while learning about evidence based studies supporting risky play and how it can affect children's development. The workshop facilitator, Belva Stone, shares many of her own personal experiences of working with children in an outdoor setting.

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Inclusive Group Times

Karen LeSage

Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm | Location: Archway Community Services ( Jasbir Saran Room ) | 23 spaces remaining

Participants will explore how to use small and large group times effectively in their classrooms. Participants will learn strategies to include and engage all children in developmentally appropriate group times using a variety of techniques.

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