Challenging Behaviour or Behaviours that Challenge Us
This is a multi-day workshop. Please ensure you are available for all the dates listed below:
Online Thursday, March 6, 13 & 20, 2025 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Description: During this 3-session course, we will be looking at three aspects of the early childhood education setting that inform and influence how we act and engage in our practice. Fundamentally, a responsive holistic pedagogy understands that all behaviour is an attempt to connect and communicate. Compassionate, responsive and intuitive pedagogy recognizes the communication inherent in the behaviour. As such the ideas discussed in each session propose methods and techniques that educators can use to newly interpret and positively engage with all forms of behaviour. Educators will be given an opportunity to engage and implement the material of a given session in their workplace and will return to the following session with notes and reflections on the efficacy of the proposed ideas.
Session one: Culture of the program – relational aspects.
Session two: Characteristics of the program – the physical elements of the space and the distinction between schedules and routines in the flow of the day.
Session three: An investigation of language, the concept of framing, and reference to key
theoretical concepts that inform responsive and holistic pedagogy.
Learning Inquiries:
- What do we mean by the culture of the program?
- How do we facilitate the relational approach to pedagogical practice?
- How does the language that we use condition and influence modes of behaviour and general perceptions?
- What informs the flow of the day, and how do we understand the distinction between schedules and routines?
- How do characteristics of the place affect and influence the behaviour of all individuals?
- What is the distinction between self-regulation and self-control?
- What does co-regulation mean and look like in a pedagogical practice?
Living Inquiries:
- Well-being and belonging.
- Engagement with others, materials, and the world.
- Communication and literacies.
- Identities, social responsibility, and diversity.
Pathways:
- Emotions, thoughts, and views.
- Multiple modes of communication.
- Individual differences.
- Social responsibility and justice.
Suitable for ECE students, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages and abilities, from infants/toddlers to school age children.
Facilitator(s): Ana Vojnovic
Ana is an educator, research-based artist/designer, and a public speaker. Ana’s work is an interdisciplinary response to urban conditions, and questions of how built/designed environments affect and condition human rhythms, our responses to designed circumstances and the ways in which we engage with-in our bodies, interrelated energies, and spatial atmospheres.
Register here: Challenging Behaviour or Behaviours that Challenge Us 4810-8100 :: Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
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