Honolulu Workshops
ED 110 - Developmentally Appropriate Practices
- Tuesday night, 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
- Sponsored by Kamehameha Preschool - Nanakuli
- Located at: 89-101 Farrington Hwy, Waianae 96792
- Registration Form
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| Date | Workshop Title |
|---|---|
| August 18 | Orientation 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
| August 25 | 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 1 | 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 8 | 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 15 | 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. |
| September 22 | 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. |
| September 29 | Children Learn Through Play Learn about how play contributes to develop- ment and how such play is at the center of developmentally appropriate early childhood programs. |
| October 6 | 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 13 | Play Capstone At this capstone you present your play activity assignment, review the unit, turn in your assignment, and take the knowledge assessment. |
| October 20 | 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 dramatic play. |
| October 27 | 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 3 | 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 10 | 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 17 | 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. |
| November 24 | 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 1 | 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 8 | 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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