Inactive - Filling the Fun Cup™ : Fostering Joy
Theory, research, and practical strategies for meeting children's need for fun and fostering joy
A webinar with Elise Waghorn from Phoenix Support for educators
Are you an early childhood educator working with children who:
Learn how to confidently respond to these behaviours by increasing every child's sense of joy within your program.
This workshop will enable you to have a deeper knowledge of how to support children to fill their Fun Cup™.
The Fun Cup drives our need for joy. This Cup is filled by play, humour, stimulation, novelty, and celebration.
This course will give you practical strategies and more confidence to plan for children's holistic wellbeing, increase a sense of fun and playfulness within you program, and ensure children in your care have a strong sense of joy.
You can log in straight away to see some content... but the live 1.5 hour webinar is coming up soon!
Recorded Live Webinar - Available until 14/08/2021
Fun Cup - Mind Map
Fun Cup
Fun Cup - Top Traits
Fun Cup - Mind Map
loose parts posters (1)
Raising Children Network
Jet pack man - Sandi Phoenix
Babies and Toddlers: Amazing Learners - Videos
Conceptual Playworlds
Toddler Play Videos
What is a Schema?
Piaget's Schema: How we change information to fit our brain space
Don’t forget to play
Heuristic play materials: Unstructured play materials for infants and toddlers.
Painting with young children in early years education and care settings.
The Complexity of Preschool Children's dramatic play.
I feel like I'm getting sad there early childhood outdoor playspaces as places for children s wellbeing
From boats to bushes environmental elements supportive of children s sociodramatic play outdoors
Connections between children s involvement in dramatic play and the quality of early childhood environments
Learn how to confidently foster a child's sense of joy by:
Responding to children’s need for playfulness
Developing holistic wellbeing plans
Slowing down to enjoy pleasurable moments
Bringing STEAM into the classroom to stimulate learning
Support schematic play
Understand and plan for differences in individual children’s needs for fun
Phoenix Support for Educators
You will have access to this course for three weeks, one week before the live to look over the readings, resources and other related content, and two weeks after the webinar, when you will have access to the recorded version of the live and the content that you may have missed in the first week.
To join the webinar, just log in, click on the course and scroll down to the lesson called 'Live webinar'. Once you find the lesson all you will need to do is press the button in the centre of the page.
To receive your certificate, you must click on 'Complete & Continue' on every page of the course. Once you've done this your certificate download button should come up in the top left corner of your course, where the progress bar is.
Complete the whole series with Elise Waghorn
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