Positive Discipline Course

This is a multi-day workshop. Please ensure you are available for all the dates listed below:
Online 7 Thursdays, April 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2023 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

These sessions will focus on the most demanding domain of our profession as early childhood educators: guiding children’s behaviour. We will look at strategies and approaches that highlight positive prevention and intervention and reaffirm our role in helping children with their emotional, social and cognitive growth, in ways that foster self-esteem and self-concept in their early years, and going forward.

Living Inquiries:

Well-being and belonging.
Engagement with others, materials, and the world.
Communication and literacies.
Identities, social responsibility, and diversity.

Pathways:
Safety and respect.
Emotions, thoughts, and views.
Every child is a gift.
Time for Engagement.
Multiple modes of communication.
Culture, family, traditions, and knowledge.
Family origins, cultural background, place of origin, allegiance and affiliation, citizenship, and other identities.
Individual differences.
Social responsibility and justice.

Suitable for ECE students, parents, adult instructors/administrators, novice, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages, from infants/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.

Facilitator: Vesna Krcmar

Vesna is an experienced facilitator and Early Childhood Educator, she has worked as a Vancouver CCRR Child Care Services Consultant at Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre and currently she is their Outreach Professional Development Coordinator. She brings a rich background in working with 0-5 year old children in both family child care and group care settings and as a Westcoast’s facilitator for various courses and workshops.