Busy Bodies! Active Learning for Active Kiddos – In-person

This 2-part workshop uses active, hands-on learning to investigate the processing of our eight senses (yes, eight!) and their role in early learning and development.  When fully understood, teachers can assemble a variety of engaging sensory processing activities as a toolbox to reach all learners, especially those that need to move constantly.  Explore how to adjust current curriculum and teaching strategies to include more physical activities that stimulate and calm the brain, even when space and time is limited, including:

• Problematizing the environment to keep them busy
• Energy release activities – heavy work AND mental work
• Energy calming practices – inclusive of all and individualized
• I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IMIL) curriculum – woven into daily classroom life

Wear your sneakers and bring your thinking caps!  We will be actively implementing inclusive environment and curriculum for active kiddos in your class that will harness their energy and transform it into productive and positive learning experiences.

Competencies:

• TP 2.1-2.3 Teaching Practices  – How Children Learn & Approaches to Learning
• SEHD 3.1 – 3.3 Positive Interactions and Relationships with Individual Children
• CGDL 9.1 – 9.2 Individual Needs and Difference