Filling the Fun Cup™

A webinar with Elise Waghorn from Phoenix Support for educators

Are you an early childhood educator working with children who:

  • Seem bored or under stimulated;
  • ‘Break rules’ while they laugh;
  • Seem to ‘push buttons’ and enjoy the reaction;
  • Need constant stimulation and entertainment;
  • Value humour but have yet to learn boundaries around ‘teasing’; or
  • Will not follow directions (‘do not listen’ to staff). 


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.

 

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Getting Started

  • 2

    Live Webinar

    • Live Webinar - Filling the Fun Cup - 28 Jul 2021 7:00pm AEST (QLD time)

  • 3

    Resource Library

    • Fun Cup - Mind Map

    • Fun Cup

    • Fun Cup - Top Traits

    • Fun Cup - Mind Map

    • loose parts posters (1)
  • 4

    Websites

    • Raising Children Network
  • 5

    Videos

    • 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
  • 6

    Reading Material

    • 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
  • 7

    Happy Cup Filling

    • Professional and personal development opportunities with Phoenix Support for Educators

    • Final reflection

Become an expert at planning for the Fun Cup™

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

Link theory, research, and evidence to your practice and planning

This course will show you how to incorporate the following theories into your planning

  • Schematic Play

    Piaget discovered that working with schemas helps us build learning around children's understanding of their world, effectively scaffolding upon previous learning to expand children's concepts and ideas. Chris Athey and Cathy Nutbrown’s subsequent research and readings around schema are articulated in this course.

  • The Phoenix Cups®

    A shared language, an approach, a revolutionary framework. The Phoenix Cups is a philosophical framework that your team can use to share ideas, language, and understandings about human behaviour. This course looks specifically at one of The Phoenix Cups - The Fun Cup.

  • Positive Psychology

    The PERMA model proposes that there are five elements essential to human well-being. The E in this model refers to Engagement. We don’t thrive when we are doing nothing. We get bored and feel useless. But when we engage with our life and work, we become absorbed. This course considers this research and the fact that children require engagement to be able to learn to be in ‘flow’ from a very young age.

  • Glasser's Choice Theory

    Dr William Glasser said that Fun is the genetic reward for learning. He coined fun as one of five basic human life needs that drive our behaviours. In this course, this is called the Will to Fill the Fun Cup.

Bonus material

You will get instant access to a resource library as well as a one hour live webinar presentation and Q&A

  • Videos + Webinar

    This course includes video content to provide further depth to your knowledge and understanding. Additionally, the live webinar will be recorded and uploaded to your course to play back at your own time.

  • Downloadable PDFs

    Downloadable resources that every educator needs for understanding how to support children to fill their Fun Cup.

  • Internet resources

    Web links to key learning material and helpful educator resources.

Facilitator

Phoenix Support for Educators

FAQ

  • How long do I have access to the course?

    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.

  • Where will I find the webinar link?

    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.

  • How do I get my certificate?

    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.

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