Regional Workshops for Region 1
New Workshop Registration Procedure:
1. Click Here and Print off this Registration Form
2. Read through Workshops being offered below
3. Fill out Registration Form in full
4. Check Workshops you wish to take
5. Fill in the Fee and total at the bottom
6. It you are paying by Cheque please mail in the form to the address on the Registration Form. If you are paying by Visa/Mastercard fill in the credit card information and fax the form into our office.
7. Please ensure that you include your e-mail address as reciepts will ONLY be e-mailed out.
September 24/11 - Meeting the Challenge - Aboriginal Version
Session One Learning Objectives will focus on exploring the whys and wherefores of children’s behavior, understanding what children may gain from challenging behavior and your role in assessing the function that challenging behavior plays, and examining the effects that challenging behavior may have on the other children in the program and on the practitioner.
Session Two Learning Objectives will identify strategies that prevent or minimize challenging behaviors, recognize anxiety and other early warning signs of challenging behaviors, examine and where necessary, change the practitioner’s approach to challenging behavior and use observation techniques to gain more information about challenging behavior.
Session Three Learning Objectives will identify appropriate behavior strategies, develop, implement and evaluate a plan of action for coping with challenging behaviors, including determining when outside intervention is necessary, working with parents as partners around challenging behaviors, help other children and their parents cope with challenging behavior, and reflect on your practice as it relates to challenging behavior.
Relates to Accreditation Standards: 2 and 4
October 22/11 - Handle with Care Part 1
The “Handle with Care” practitioner workshop is designed to help participants develop a mental health promotion mindset in their child care work and assist them in implementing appropriate strategies in the child care setting. The focus is on: 1) Creating a mental health promotion mindset 2) Understanding how social-emotional development, family and community connections and practitioner well-being are important contributors to promoting children’s mental health. 3) Linking new information with familiar information 4) recognizing positive practices as well as challenges and barriers 5) adapting mental health promotion practices to particular community and centre situations encountered by practitioners.
Relates to Accreditation Standards:1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
October 29/11 - Handle with Care Part 2
You must of completed Handle with Care 1 to register for this course.
The “Handle with Care” practitioner workshop is designed to help participants develop a mental health promotion mindset in their child care work and assist them in implementing appropriate strategies in the child care setting. The focus is on: 1) Creating a mental health promotion mindset 2) Understanding how social-emotional development, family and community connections and practitioner well-being are important contributors to promoting children’s mental health. 3) Linking new information with familiar information 4) recognizing positive practices as well as challenges and barriers 5) adapting mental health promotion practices to particular community and centre situations encountered by practitioners.
Relates to Accreditation Standards:1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
November 7/11 - Children Love Science
November 22/11 - Professionalism in Family Child Care
Voice is a quarterly newsletter for child care owners/operators and early professionals in Region 1 produced by the Alberta Resource Centre for Quality Enhancement (ARCQE) with funding provided by Southwest Alberta Child and Family Services Authority.
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