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Making Every Moment Count: Ways to Build Relationships through Every Day Experiences Workshop

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Attention: Midwest Professionals

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Come join Susan Bernstein and Heather Porteous, Early Childhood Educators and Consultants to explore research-based caregiving routines. We will use the time to address the difficulties of time management and classroom management, share research and evidence-based best practices, and elaborate on the young child’s experience during care routines such as diapering, feeding, being held, nose wiping, sleep, play, and hand washing.  This workshop will provide participants with a deeper understanding of the struggles children experience as they learn to build healthy relationships with the caregivers in their lives and will provide more tools to help build successful respectful, reciprocal, responsive and healthy relationships with the youngest in your care.  Participants will be given resources to further their research to include web, print, videos, research papers, articles and books along with an opportunity to sign up for continuing courses and private consultation.

The Workshop will take place on March 8, 2014

At the (17th Annual) Infant Toddler Conference

Workshop  “Making Every Moment Count: Ways to Build Relationships through Every Day Experiences”

is scheduled for both Morning and Afternoon Sessions (10 – 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 – 2 p.m.)

Join us in our room in between sessions or at 2 p.m. if you have any questions.

 

 

Making Every Moment Count:

Ways to Build Relationships through Every Day Experiences

90 Minute Workshop

An Introduction:

Respectful and Responsive Care

for Parents and Professionals

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Susan Bernstein Portrait Soft

Presenter – Susan Bernstein

Ms Bernstein, Child Developmental Specialist and ECE Consultant, is the owner/director of Maplewood Child Development Center, founder of both Making Ever Moment Count™ consulting service and The Chicago Fellowship of Child and Family Support Professionals. She provides guided playgroups for young children and their carers/parents, parenting and ECE professionals support groups, training for center teachers and directors, and studied with Polly Elam and Roseann Murphy. She is a DePaul University ECE Graduate and a Certified Type 04 Master Teacher. Her most recent studies include Magda Gerber’s respectful and responsive child care approach, Early Intervention & Assessment and Pediatric Nutrition.

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Presenter – Heather Porteous

 Ms Porteous, a recent graduate of Erikson Institute, is a child development specialist and Type 04 certified ECE teacher. She has most recently studied the Pikler® Approach and the influences the Reggio Emilia School in Italy has on it’s children, families and teachers in addition to how the school’s principles can be beneficial as an inspiration for communities of learners around the world. Since her career began in ECE she has worked as a teacher of toddlers, preschoolers, and children who have varying learning needs, provides ECE teacher training in the Chicagoland area, and sits on the local GoAEYC Board of Directors.

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REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Contact Oakton Community College ( oakton.edu )

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Fee: $40 in advance, $60 at the door if space is available
Date: March 8, 2014
Location: Oakton Community College – TenHoeve Center, Des Plaines Campus
                    1600 East Golf Road
                    Des Plaines, IL 60016

 

“17th Annual Infant Toddler Conference March 8, 2014

At the heart of our work with infants, toddlers, and their families is the excitement of knowing that each day offers new opportunities to strengthen connections, as young children begin to discover the world around them. The 2014 Conference focuses on the essential components of our relationships with infants and toddlers. Because our work profoundly impacts the lives of those in our care, we need to be mindful of how we guide them—and how we foster everyday learning opportunities.

Presented by Oakton Community College in collaboration with The Ounce of Prevention Fund and Children’s Home + Aid.

Making Every Moment Count: Ways to Build Relationships Through Everyday Experiences
Heather Porteous and Susan Bernstein-Alton, Early Childhood Consultants
Everyday routines are a great way to build relationships and provide learning opportunities for young children—helping them feel safe and build the trust they need to explore the world around them. Learn how strengthening bonds through daily experiences can shed light on a child’s development and improve communication among co-workers and with parents.” Posted on FB, February 18, 2014.