CREATING ENGAGING ENVIRONMENTS FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS (Online Event)
Create engaging and meaningful environments that promote, engage, and sustain children’s learning through play. School Readiness Funding Approved, NESA Recognised in NSW, and Kindy Uplift supported.
Live online events
Description
Creating Engaging Environments for Preschoolers
What you will learn from this session:
How do you create engaging and meaningful environments that promote, engage and sustain children’s learning through play? Join us as we explore the importance of creating spaces that nurture and inspire whilst facilitating learning and relationships. This session can be viewed as a stand alone professional development session or can be completed in conjunction with the sessions outlined in our Certification pathway. Our Certification pathway can assist teams choosing to implement a 2 year planning timeframe.
By attending Creating Engaging Environments for Preschoolers you will:
- Acquire skills that create quality learning environments and programs that build children’s capacity for literacy, numeracy and rich language development through investigative learning and hands on play indoors and outdoors.
- Expand educator skills to support children’s vocabulary, listening and comprehension skills, phonemic awareness, concepts of print and early literacy activity.
- Understand the basis for developing relationships and how they are deepened through play and interactions with trusted adults, educators and peers.
- See visual examples of quality learning environments that build children's capacity for literacy, numeracy and rich language opportunities.
- Explore how to include resources into the learning environments to introduce and extend opportunities for numeracy development.
- Extend your knowledge and skills in the provision of developmentally appropriate holistic learning environments.
- Develop strategies to support attention, focus, working memory, perseverance and resilience through creative and intentional learning environments.
- Support fine and gross motor development through varied play opportunities.
- Develop an Intentional pedagogical teaching approach that reflects and supports all cultures, factoring in demographic, economic and social situations.
- Hear and see how inclusive practice and creativity is incorporated into the learning environment through design, set up, sustainability, and the use of materials and equipment including the use of loose parts.
- Reconsider the importance of creating physical, temporal, intellectual, social and emotional environments.
- Understand how children’s self regulation and behaviour can be positively influenced and developed through the provision of high quality open-ended learning environments.
Australian Professional Teaching Standards: APTS –1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.5, 3.4 6.2, 6.3 National Quality Standard: QA - 1, 2, 3, 5
