National Child Traumatic Stress Network
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) has a Child Trauma Toolkit for educators and a useful handbook for parents called Caring for Children who have Experienced Trauma
Harvard Centre on the Developing Child – Resilience Series
These three short videos provide an overview of why resilience matters, how it develops and how to strengthen children’s capacity for resilience.
10 Tips for Difficult Conversations with Parents: Online Tutorial with Facilitator Guide
Sometimes, we need to have difficult conversations with parents about their child's development, challenges or needs. Planning for these interactions can be stressful, but this 19-minute tutorial will provide you with tools and strategies, common mistakes to avoid, and 10 tips for planning ahead and managing difficult conversations in an approachable and professional way. It also includes a Facilitator guide and 10 Questions for Group Discussion and Personal Reflection to use with your team, extend your learning and help you identify concrete strategies that you can use in your program.
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Best Practices for Guiding Children’s Behaviour
Healthy Child Manitoba has developed
a guide is for early learning and child care staff and family child care providers. It provides effective ways to guide behaviours and enhance the social and emotional well-being of all children in your care. The strategies described are research-based and can help all children, not just those experiencing difficulties!
New Research on How Babies Learn Two Languages
In a new study, an international team of researchers, including those from Princeton University, report that
bilingual infants as young as 20 months of age are really good at processing two languages!
When Children’s Behaviour is Challenging: Online Tutorial Now Available with Facilitator Guide
Sometimes a child’s behaviour challenges us and forces us to step outside our usual comfort zone. Find out what to do when children’s behaviour is challenging you, common mistakes to avoid, and 7 steps to take when behaviour is challenging in your program. We’ve also developed a Facilitator guide that includes 10 Questions for Group Discussion and Personal Reflection to use with your team, extend your learning and help you identify concrete strategies that you can use in your program.
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Fostering Attachment in the Child Care Setting for Infants and Toddlers
It takes time for care providers to learn the cues of the babies in their care. Likewise, babies need to get to know and understand their care providers. This cannot happen if the baby has too many adults in his or her day or if he or she moves to a new classroom every few months. Early childhood researchers suggest that infants and toddlers should spend their first three years in consistent care to allow secure attachments to develop. This article from Early Childhood News will help you to learn a multitude of techniques that help
build attachment and security for infants in your care.
Podcast: The Science behind Language Development
Does your circle time seem more like a test than an opportunity to enrich learning? In this podcast Karen Nemeth, an advocate for early childhood education and author on the topic of language development, explores
childhood language development and the importance of engaging children in conversations. You’ll learn about the science of language development and what it should look like in the classroom. You’ll also come away with ideas for moving your circle time from a question and answer format to a real conversation with kids.
Developing Physical Literacy in Children
How do you help a child develop skills in physical activity? What can you do to increase their motivation, competency and confidence in this area? Like most other areas of development, physical literacy is fostered by setting up a rich, stimulating environment indoors and outdoors and being an active role model. This site will teach you
how to help children develop physical literacy through active play.
Top 25 ECE blogs from HiMama
Looking for craft ideas or physical and fine motor activities?
Check out these blogs which were selected as the favourites of early childhood educators for 2017.
