Creating a Healthy Emotional Environment in Child Care
Date/Time
Date(s) - Apr 7, 2021 - Apr 8, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre (2772 East Broadway)
Add to My Calendar
iCal
ONLINE ONLY
Wednesday April 7, 2021 Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm 1.5 hours
Thursday April 8, 2021 Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm 1.5 hours
Description:
This workshop will discuss the causes for mental stress for children and Early childhood educators. Educators will learn about self-regulation, reflective behaviour and relationship building. We will explore a strength-based approach that focuses on what we can do vs. stigmatizing children and adults who are struggling. We will also discuss the underlying factors that affect children’s emotional health and explore healing through using bibliotherapy. We will talk about creating a child centred curriculum and environment to manage these issues. We will also discuss self-care for Educators and how to prevent burn-out and learn about important resources to continue learning about mental health.
Living Inquiries:
- Wellbeing and belonging.
- Communication and literacies.
- Identities, social responsibility, and diversity.
Pathways:
- Joy in relationships with people, place, materials and ideas.
- Safety and respect.
- Nourishment, sleep, and physical activity.
- Emotions, thoughts, and views.
- Every child is a gift.
- Interests and inquiries.
- Multiple modes of communication.
- Democratic practices.
- Individual differences.
- Interrelationship of humans and their common worlds.
Before you register:
- Westcoast offers interactive, live workshops as opposed to webinars or lectures. In an online environment this requires a reliable internet connection, an updated device and enabling the camera and microphone for the duration of each session. These are basic requirements to attend our workshops and to receive a certificate of participation so please consider this before you register.
- The workshop/course will take place via Zoom. A link for all sessions will be emailed to you a day before the workshop.
- Check your email settings and your spam folder.
- If you are new to Zoom watch the video How to Join a Zoom Meeting. You do not need to download Zoom to attend, but access may be quicker when logged in to Zoom. You can download Zoom for free at zoom.us/signup.
- Join each session by clicking the link 15 min. before start time.
- Doors close 15 min. after start time.
- Workshops/courses are never recorded. If you miss a session, there is no way to make it up and you will not receive a certificate.
- A certificate will be emailed to participants who attend all sessions, after completion.
- Self reflection resources/materials will be emailed to participants at the end of the first session. This will count for 1 additional hour of independent learning on your certificate for a total of 4 hours.
- More questions? Read our Workshop FAQs.
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre | WCCRC
Categories
- Child Health and Wellbeing
- Curriculum/Program Development
- Early Care and Education
- Online
- Professional Ethics & Practice
- Service Partnership: Vancouver Early Years Partnership
- Service System: CCRR
Target Audience
Suitable for students, parents, adult instructors/administrators, novice and intermediate early care and learning professionals working with infants/toddlers and preschool age children.
Online
Yes
Professional Development Certificate
Yes
Professional Development Certificate Credit Hours
4
Registration Fee
Fee: $65 | FCC Fee: $50
Registration Space
Filling Up!
Registration Contact Email
pro-d@wstcoast.org
Registration Contact Phone Number
604-709-5661 ext.221
Registration Link
https://www.wstcoast.org/workshops/calendar/online-creating-healthy-emotional-environment-child-care?occurrenceID=985
Prerequisite(s)
Read our Workshop Policies, FAQs and Online Workshops Basics.
Required Materials
Computer, audio and video.
Presenter(s)
Pooja Kalsi
Presenter Information
Pooja has a Master's degree in Early Childhood Education from State university of New York. She has 22 years of experience in the Early childhood field as a teacher, facilitator, supervisor, director and instructor. She is very passionate about the social-emotional health of children and always works in finding ways to promote children's creativity and expression of discovery. She currently teaches at Langara College in the ECE department. She is a mother of two children and believes that she continues to learn from the world around her.
Event Sponsors
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre | WCCRC