|
Workshops Schedule Change
Workshops moved until after February Vacation.
DTW101 Keys to Improving Academic Success through Self-Regulation -- $55.00
Lauri Weinstein
Wednesdays, 3/2 and 3/9 from 6:00-8:30 Easy Does It Studio, 19 Mystic St. Arlington, MA
5 PDPs PreK-Grade 3, Early Childhood and Special Needs
Examine the developmental stages of movement in a typical infant in the first 6 months of life. Learn to feel your own kinesthetic, proprioceptive and vestibular sense of self and what these words mean in your own self discovery. Review and discuss the development of vision/sight, hearing/listening, breathing/suckling, the discovery of hands/feet, and locomotion. Explore how these movements of childhood mastery are linked to academic success and focused learning.   
NEW!
DTW104 Accommodating Children with Attention Deficit Disorder (from an Occupational Therapist's perspective...) $85.00
Tere Bowen-Irish
Saturday, 5/7 from 8:30 to 2:00pm
Notre Dame Children's Class, Wenham
5PDPs PreK-Grade 3 Do you have children in the classroom who are excitable, impulsive, restless, easily frustrated, daydreaming or even those you might say are lazy? Those children that have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder can exhibit these and other symptoms that interfere with accessing their curriculum. They often display a developmental disability for executive abilities. Poor organizational skills, unease with transitions, immaturity and other symptoms often warrant behavior management techniques or other strategies to help the child feel successful. Take home ideas for specific ways to enhance direction-following and to promote social skills and executive skills. Empower these children with the ability to learn and live with the challenges that their diagnosis brings to the classroom.
 
DTW105 Plant a Seed and Read Content Institute $120
Saturdays, 4/2 and 6/4 from 8:30 to 2:00pm
Notre Dame Children's Class, Wenham, MA
Jan Plourde
Toddlers-K
$120.00 10PDPs
Use all of your senses to create gardens, books and readers. Learn to transform the children in your class into scientists and naturalists through natural children's activities. Join Jan in this hands-on workshop where there is a good chance we could get dirty in this ground level presentation. Go home with your own starter gardens, resources and websites that are helpful in creating little gardeners. Learn to modify recycling materials into natural container gardens or garden tools. Discover classic and new children's books that pertain to seeds, gardens and vegetables. Make your own flannelboard props, music, and literature extenders that provide springboards for interaction with families and support teams for your little farmers. Apply the MA Early Childhood Standards (revised 12/10/10) to your lessons and teach what children are required to learn in a natural way. This workshop follows these strands of the MA Frameworks: Early Childhood, Language Arts, Literacy, Math, Science, Art and Music.
| 
