10 Reasons to Choose Quality Early Learning and Child Care

Expert knowledge Early childhood educators are experts in child development and are trained to create inspiring learning environments!

Intentionality Early childhood educators provide your child the gift of time and attention. They will stop and explore the new flowers or jump in the mud puddles with your child.

Young at heart Early childhood educators know how to have fun! They’re not afraid to be silly and laugh with your child; all while nurturing your child’s creativity and helping to build their self-confidence.

Setting limits Every child needs reasonable boundaries, such as no playing ball inside. Early childhood educators set limits and support families in doing the same.

Love of literacy Early childhood educators read and tell stories, sing songs, and do puppet shows to inspire a love of language and to build early literacy skills.

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Confidence boost Early childhood educators provide safe opportunities for your child to be independent and to become confident in their personality and decision making skills.

Inspired learning Early childhood educators ask open-ended questions to inspire creative thought and curiosity, to encourage children to explore, and to make learning fun.

Life skills Early childhood educators use their expertise to develop programs that use play as a tool for teaching math, literacy, science and essential life skills that last for life!

Making friends Early childhood educators are educated to appropriately support children to gain social skills, which are so important in making friends and developing positive relationships!

Helping hand Everyone gets stumped by parenting from time to time - juggling schedules, demands, and behaviours. When it gets tough and you need someone to talk to, reach out to your child’s early childhood educator!

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This event has been approved by the Early Learning and Child Care Board for 4.00 professional development training hours.

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Professional Documentation Workshop

Join us before the workshop for complimentary breakfast at 8:00 am and our Annual General Meeting at 8:30 am.

Professional Documentation Workshop
with Christine McLean
9:30 am - 1:30 pm

This workshop on professional documentation will be presented following the ECDA's AGM on Saturday September 10th, 2016. Members and non-members are welcome to attend this workshop.

An important part of being a professional early childhood educator is the ability to be a reflective practitioner. Have you ever wondered what other ECEs ask themselves after an activity or project is a huge success? Or wondered what questions you should be asking yourself when things don’t go as planned? Reflection has become even more necessary with the introduction of early learning frameworks, play-based learning and pedagogical documentation. But where do we begin? How do we become reflective practitioners when we don’t know what questions to ask of ourselves or how to even start. This fun, interactive, hands-on workshop will look into the relationship between professionalism and reflective practice, and will give educators the opportunity to share ideas and learn ways to build reflection into your routine so that it becomes second nature.

Facilitator Bio: Christine McLean has been involved in the early childhood and child care community in Newfoundland and Labrador since 1988. During this time, she has held various positions including operator of a demonstration child care program; ECE college instructor; sessional instructor with Memorial University; Registrar of Child Care Services Certification; and child care consultant with the provincial government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Most recently, Christine was the Manager of the Early Childhood Education program of the College of the North Atlantic. She has been an executive board member on provincial and Pan-Canadian organizations including the Canadian Association for Young Children (current NL rep);Child Care Human Resources Sector Council; the Council of Early Child Development (Fellows program), and is a former national chairperson of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada. Christine is originally from Nova Scotia and has a Bachelor of Child Study from Mount St. Vincent University; a Bachelor of Education (Special Education) from Acadia University; a Masters of Education (ECE) from the University of Cincinnati and is currently enrolled in the Ph. D. program at OISE, University of Toronto (Early Learning). Christine has recently left Newfoundland and Labrador to take a faculty position with Mount Saint Vincent University in their Bachelor of Child and Youth Study program.

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10 Reasons to Choose Quality Early Learning and Child Care

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