The Building Blocks: Strategies for Inclusion Workshop is a two-day interactive workshop for early childhood educators and related service providers. The workshop promotes self-directed discovery and collaborative problem solving. The training modules provide the framework and tools, but the participants are encouraged to tap into their existing resources and build their own solutions to inclusive child care in their community.
Child care programs are busy places with dedicated staff who have a limited amount of resources including money, time and energy! For inclusion to work, the solutions must be practical, inexpensive and simple to implement. Often the answers are at our fingertips, if we are willing to examine new situations systematically and in partnership with others.
Building Blocks: Strategies for Inclusion responds to early childhood educator's challenges with a common sense approach to day to day programming and problem solving.
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The Building Blocks: Strategies for Inclusion Training Program takes participants through six important elements needed in building an inclusive child care program: |
Introduction
Build an ideal inclusive child care
program and be introduced to the
essential Power Tools needed for
quality construction.
Development
Learn to recognize how development
can go off track and what the
implications may be for the child and
your program.
Observation
Good observation is a critical part of
child care. We'll introduce an
innovative five step problem solving
process that involves detailed
observation and analysis of the child,
environment and caregivers.
Routines
Work as a team to apply problem
solving strategies to "real" children
within child care program routines.
Practical strategies will be used to
individualize activities and routines
through hands-on use of materials.
Administration
Support from the community,
parents, Board of Directors,
Director and staff is essential in
making inclusion work. Discussion will take place around
common administrative challenges
that inclusive programs face.
Resources
Turn your inclusion tool box into a
Treasure Chest! You'll come away
from the training program with a
treasure trove of resource and
funding ideas.
Partnerships
Quality inclusive child care
programs require a team effort.
Through a variety of activities,
you'll understand the importance
of partnerships and teamwork with
families, other professionals and
the community.
