Professional Development Events

Step Up to Success:

Collaborative Professional Development for Early Childhood Carers/Therapists

For those working in, or towards, a career in Early Childhood Education, Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy.

Join us for a unique collabourative professional development 5 part series on functional everyday skills and strategies to support children in the preschool, home, (early) school and therapy setting.

As professionals we typically engage in our own disciplines specific professional development, but rarely do we get the chance to sit alongside others involved in our young students broader care and learn from and with them!

Focused on walking away with immediately useful knowledge and strategies to use across preschoolers many environments, this 5 part series will be like no other discipline specific training. Instead it is focused on considering the child within the ‘bigger picture’ of all the environments to which they are exposed, and how strategies from one environment can be just a usefully applied in another.

Come along to listen and/or contribute to the discussion (and questions) whilst siting in the preschool environment allow more knowledge and strategies consolidation. Its like living a case study – bring your case studies (students in mind) to share with and learn from the group.

All events will begin follow the 360 degrees format of:

A brief introduction by an experienced paediatric Speech or Occupational Therapist to set the scene of the focus topic and to speak about the underlying foundation skills (* that are not always established in children) and to discuss common presentation so we have a shared understanding of the children we are talking about.
Examine specific examples of preschool support strategies
How the examples might modify as the child transitions to junior primary school
Hear about how preschool strategies can be modified for the home environment is also undertake to ensure as full 360 degree view of the child.

Do you:

Work with children who are struggling to learn as easily as their peers?
Wish you had more helpful strategies to support real life functional skills?
Have an existing toolbelt of strategies to help these kids as a professional but want to know how to tweak them for individual children?

Then join us for these truly unique collaboratively learning experiences!
All events are for preschool support team members working in, or towards, a career in Early Childhood Education, Speech Pathology and Occupational Therapy.

All events are held 6.30-8.30 pm Wednesdays $20 per night or $90 for all 5. The cheapest and best value PD going!

To Join us:

Just register via the trybooking link below, then Join the Kid Sense and SA Montessori Step Up To Success closed facebook page for handouts, activity ideas, resource information and more!

For more information, contact Joanna at Kid Sense on (08)8272-7522

Date	Term Week	Topic	Venue	Book Here
Wednesday 21st August	Term 2 Wk 5	*'Be their glasses, not their eyes' -nurturing independence by being a supporter not a do-er.* Preschool educators and therapists are commonly focused on enhancing their students functional daily life skills and ultimately independence. But being an independence 'coach' not a 'director' (doer) can be tricky no matter how well intended. Maximize your coaching by being mindful of the levers you can use to ensure successful coaching including: This strategy focused workshop explores: Language use Visual cues Routine sequences Visualizations Enjoy a 'hands off' and statement free coaching approach towards independence success.	Rosemont House Montessori, 59 Kensington Road, Norwood	Book Now

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