Ewa Workshops

ED 110 - Developmentally Appropriate Practices

  • Wednesday Nights, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • Sponsored by Kama‘aina Kids - Ewa
  • Located at Kama‘aina Kids Child & Family Services, 91-1841 Fort Weaver Road

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Date Workshop Title
August 27 Orientation 6:00pm to 8:00pm
September 3 Environment Principles
Learn about the essential elements in an environment for young children, explore how to organize and manage these elements to ensure optimal opportunities for development. Health and safety issues are also covered.
September 10 Infant & Toddler Environments
Explore how to evaluate, design, organize, and manage environments to meet the developmental needs of infants and toddlers. Selection of equipment and materials, planning for routines, and health and safety issues are also covered.
September 17 Preschool & Primary Environments
Learn about and practice evaluating how safe, healthy, and stimulating the environment is. You will learn about the use of room arrangement, furnishings, equipment, materials, and the daily schedule to support development.
September 24 Environment Capstone
In this capstone you will review the information covered in the unit, present what you learned about the learning environments you studied, turn in your assignment and take the knowledge assessment.
October 1 What Is Play?
Learn how play helps children develop and learn. Explore some of the issues around play such as what to do about war play and sex play when they occur in your program setting.
October 8 Children Learn Through Play
Learn about how play contributes to development and how such play is at the center of developmentally appropriate early childhood programs.
October 15 The Joy of Play
This workshop gives you hands on experience with some of the wonderful sensory and physical development experiences you can provide for children.
October 22 Play Capstone
At this capstone you present your play activity assignment, review the unit, turn in your assignment, and take the knowledge assignment.
October 29 Creating & Appreciating
In this workshop you experience some of the most basic activities in creative curriculum and learn how to design nearly endless variations to support children in the development of creativity (art, music, creative movement, and creative dramatic).
November 5 Language And Literacy
In this workshop you learn how to use developmentally appropriate approaches to help children become competent in their use of the spoken and written language of their culture.
November 12 Discovering and Thinking
In this workshop you explore a variety of materials and learn how to select a unit or project themes that are developmentally just right for the children with whom you work.
November 19 Curriculum Capstone
At this workshop you will present your developmentally appropriate play based activity and plan, review the unit, take the knowledge assessment on curriculum, and turn in your assignment.
November 26 Guidance Foundations
At this workshop we explore what kind of world we would most like to live in and the kind of people who would be needed to make that world possible. This enables us to evaluate the long-term effects of the ways we guide children.
December 3 Infant-Toddler Guidance
Infants cry, toddlers whine, bite, and say “NO”. How can teachers and caregivers deal with these behaviors? Come and explore guidance strategies that are nurturing to our very youngest children.
December 10 Preschool-Primary Guidance
Come and learn why praise, time-out, rewards, and other such “tricks of the trade” might need to be replaced with more appropriate guidance strategies.
December 17 Guidance Capstone
At this workshop you review the major ideas and skills covered in the unit, present and hand in your assignment, and take the knowledge assessment for the unit.

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