Create engaging and meaningful environments that promote, engage, and sustain children’s learning through play. School Readiness Funding Approved in Victoria, NESA Accredited in NSW, and Kindy Uplift supported in Queensland.
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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.
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.
- Relationships are the foundation for developing children’s social skills. Understand the basis for developing relationships and how they are deepened through play and interactions with trusted adults, educators and peers.
- Quality learning environments and programs build children’s capacity for literacy, numeracy and rich language opportunities. This session is full of visual examples of learning environments to spark ideas for implementation in your own setting.
- Learning environments develop early numeracy skills through scaffolding rich play experiences incorporating intentional teaching. This session explores how to include resources into the learning environments to introduce and extend opportunities for numeracy development.
- This session differentiates between developmentally appropriate play experiences for children in contrast to activity based or cloned learning.
- Developmentally appropriate learning environments nurture relationships and high quality interactions which creates the strong foundations needed to build wellbeing, communication skills and resilience. Extend your knowledge and skills in the provision of holistic environments that promotes children’s social and emotional learning and the importance of positive, safe, secure and respectful relationships.
- Develop strategies to support attention, focus, working memory, perseverance and resilience as we explore the correlation between the intentional creative learning environment and strong educator/child/family relationships.
- 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.
- Understand how intentional teaching supports positive communication, inclusive practice, and creativity. Reconsider the importance of creating physical, temporal, intellectual, social and emotional environments as well as open-ended learning spaces.
- Understand how children’s self regulation and behaviour can be positively influenced and developed through the provision of high quality learning environments and the developmentally appropriate practice of warm nurturing educators.
- Learn about ongoing planning, documentation, modifications and evaluation that supports children to resource their own learning.
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
