Alberta Resource Center for Quality Enhancement

This workshop takes the opportunity to discuss physical development stages of children 6-12 years old.  Participants with combine theory and practical strategies to support physical age appropriate activities and interactions with the children.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 4

Social Emotional Development of 6 -12 year olds  – This workshop takes the opportunity to discuss social/emotional stages of 6-12 year old children. Review friendships building skills that are happening at this age.  As well this session give hands-on strategies for working with children and families to support healthy social/emotional development.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2

Strategies to Support School Age Children – This interactive workshop focuses on strategies to support children’s use of pro-social skills when interacting with others.  The strategies are taken from the “Eyes on Bullying – What Can You Do?” toolkit.  The information explores the roles of the bully, victim and bystander in creating a more progressive environment for children to support themselves and others.  It also explores the role of the caregiver to reflect on strategies that promote confidence, independence and self-awareness while reflecting on their own beliefs in guiding those behaviors.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards:1 and 2

(Presenter: Darlene Ede) It is a three-part program designed to help early childhood education and care practitioners better understand stress and to help them teach the children in their care ways to manage it. This program is for those working with children from five to nine years of age, an age group with wide variations in emotional and intellectual abilities. The activities for participants and children are designed to build and strengthen important communication skills and to result in an increased ability for children to handle stress. Taking care of children is not always easy and the adults, too, can become more relaxed and capable when they adopt stress management tools and strategies themselves.
Using a certified trainer this workshop will explore:

• Session 1 provides an opportunity for personal introductions and discussion about group rules. Reasons for discussing stress and ways to recognize it in children are presented.
• Session 2 includes learning the steps of problem solving and how to apply them, as well as information about stress prevention.
• Session 3 focuses on the use of different stress-management strategies.  (This workshop is subject to presenter availability and travel expenses)

Relates to Accreditation Standards: OSC 1,2 & 3

Building on Children’s Interests- Intentional vs. Accidental. Emergent Curriculum is about - planning and then letting go - responding to the interests and preferences of everyone in the room, including the professionals and the families - celebrating the children - enjoying the role you play with the children, the program, the families and the community.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2

Ever wonder how to use the same activity to meet a variety of needs and interests?  This workshop uses the Multiple Intelligences (Howard Garner) learning styles to look at developing activities and setting up environments to meet a variety of needs. This hands-on workshop will give strategies and ideas that can be used the next day to support a variety of different interests and learning styles.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1,2 and 3

Children have a natural curiosity about the world around them, we as caregivers have the opportunity to be children’s first introduction to many natural and scientific concepts.   This workshop focuses on the early childhood professional’s role in supporting science through interactions, materials and interest based planning. 

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2

Have you ever wondered what to do with Spiderman or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the dramatic play area? This workshop will focus on how to use these intrinsic interests and self assigned roles of the children to give concrete learning to moral development such as honor justice, mercy and other values of human interactions. This workshop will support advanced early childhood professionals in their progression toward providing optimum learning and care for children.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1,2 and 3

Participants will explore the guiding principles that support cultural diversity in programs for young children, examine their own values, and become familiar with the Consciousness Continuum model – one that encourages participants to become “unconsciously competent.” Participants will have the opportunity to examine concrete ways to weave culture sensitivities into the child’s play environment so that each child and his/her family see themselves reflected in the program.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1,2 and 3

 “Children have always built, testing their theories about the physical and social world. They stack units, knock them down, enclose spaces, bridge gaps, and repeat and refine ideas—often without the intervention of adults or the introduction of commercial materials.” (Hewitt, 2001)  Block play is a staple in all childhood classrooms.  This interactive workshop takes a look at the stages of block play and materials that support whole child development using this type of play.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2

“Cooking activities are intrinsically appealing to children as well as being rich in opportunities for learning. With a well-planned cooking program, teachers don’t have to sacrifice developmentally appropriate practices to help children achieve important learning outcomes.”(Colker, 2005) This workshop supports hands-on strategies to include cooking in the early childhood classroom.

This workshop explores: 

• Setting up a Developmentally Appropriate Cooking Environment
• Putting Health and Safety First 
• Cooking with Families 
• Using Recipes with Young Children

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2

This workshop combines theory on how a child’s brain understands the world around them according to groupings and patterns which provide the bases for more advanced math skills.  The participants will engaged in hands-on activities and brainstorming related to how to use everyday routine and materials to support math skills.

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2

This workshop focuses on the caregiver’s role of guiding awareness and promoting critical thinking related to media consumption in children.  It is noted that the children of today, due to technology will grow up and do jobs that currently don’t exist, making it critical that they have skills to discern the value of the media in their lives.  Media literacy is the skill of experiencing, interpreting/analyzing and making media products.   This workshop shares strategies to integrate technology and well as some hands on activities to support use of media in programs. (older preschool/school age care)

Relates to Accreditation Standards: OSC 1 and 2

Many times Out of School care programs require flexibility in their storage and program delivery.  This session looks at strategies to develop and store prop boxes.  The process of development and inclusion of curriculum ideas will be explored and relevant to the front line delivery of meaningful activities with children.  This session includes the development of a “Construction” prop box to be used with the children the next day. 

Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2

 Are you looking to support more positive behaviours between children, development friendship communication skills.  This unique delivery is a combination of adult facilitator training and workshop with the children.  It focuses on developing scripts and awareness of the influences that children have on their environment.  The format of this session is: one hour facilitation with the staff then 1.5 hours with the children and staff related to enhancing pro-social behavior and support of positive communities.  Available as site specific delivery only.

Available Fall 2010 Relates to OSC Accreditation Standards: 1 and 2