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Challenging Behaviour or Behaviours that Challenge Us 4810-8100

This is a multi-day workshop. Please ensure you are available for all the dates listed below:

Online Thursday, March 6, 13 & 20, 2025 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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During this 3-session course, we will be looking at three aspects of the early childhood education setting that inform and influence how we act and engage in our practice. Fundamentally, a responsive holistic pedagogy understands that all behaviour is an attempt to connect and communicate. Compassionate, responsive and intuitive pedagogy recognizes the communication inherent in the behaviour. As such the ideas discussed in each session propose methods and techniques that educators can use to newly interpret and positively engage with all forms of behaviour. Educators will be given an opportunity to engage and implement the material of a given session in their workplace and will return to the following session with notes and reflections on the efficacy of the proposed ideas.  

Session one: Culture of the program – relational aspects.  
Session two: Characteristics of the program – the physical elements of the space and the distinction between schedules and routines in the flow of the day. 
Session three: An investigation of language, the concept of framing, and reference to key  
theoretical concepts that inform responsive and holistic pedagogy.  

Learning Inquiries:  

  • What do we mean by the culture of the program?  
  • How do we facilitate the relational approach to pedagogical practice?  
  • How does the language that we use condition and influence modes of behaviour and general perceptions?   
  • What informs the flow of the day, and how do we understand the distinction between schedules and routines?  
  • How do characteristics of the place affect and influence the behaviour of all individuals?  
  • What is the distinction between self-regulation and self-control?  
  • What does co-regulation mean and look like in a pedagogical practice?  

Living Inquiries: 

  • Well-being and belonging. 
  • Engagement with others, materials, and the world. 
  • Communication and literacies. 
  • Identities, social responsibility, and diversity. 

Pathways: 

  • Emotions, thoughts, and views. 
  • Multiple modes of communication. 
  • Individual differences. 
  • Social responsibility and justice. 

 
Suitable for ECE students, intermediate and experienced early care and learning professionals working with children of all ages and abilities, from infants/toddlers to school age children. 

 

Facilitator(s): Ana Vojnovic

Ana is an educator, research-based artist/designer, and a public speaker. Ana’s work is an interdisciplinary response to urban conditions, and questions of how built/designed environments affect and condition human rhythms, our responses to designed circumstances and the ways in which we engage with-in our bodies, interrelated energies, and spatial atmospheres.   

 

  1. Requests for cancellations must be received at least 3 business days prior to the workshop/course date to get a refund, minus any Administration Fees.
  2. All refunds are subject to a $10 Administration Fee, except for workshops/courses that are $100 or more, which have a $25 Administration Fee.
  3. No monies will be refunded or credits offered once the workshop/course starts, or if it’s missed.
  4. Westcoast may cancel a workshop/course at any time. Registrants will be notified and receive a full refund.
  5. If a class is missed, registrants forfeit their fee and there will be no refund or credit.

By registering for a workshop / course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with these policies.

  1. It is the participants’ responsibility to read the workshop/course description and objectives and make sure the training selected is suitable for their learning needs.
  2. Camera's must be on during the workshop to receive a certificate.
  3. Only Vancouver CCRR Registered LNRs or Vancouver Licensed Family Child Care Providers qualify to pay the FCC Fee and will need to state this when they create their account on our website and be approved for this access. When you are an approved CCRR Registered LNR or Vancouver Licensed Family Child Care Provider, these reduced fees will automatically be applied to your registration for all applicable workshops.
  4. Participants must be 19 years of age to work with children.
  5. Minimum Grade 8 high-school English understanding, written and oral skills or equivalent are necessary to actively participate in class.
  6. Participants must stay for the full workshop/course to receive a certificate.
  7. Doors close 15 minutes after start time in respect to the presenter and participants.
  8. We are unable to accommodate children during workshop/course time. Please make childcare arrangements.
  9. Payment must be made at the time of registration to confirm a seat.
  10. Receipts are available on your account at wccrc.ca/login
  11. Handouts (if any) are sent by email.
  12. Certificates can be reprinted or downloaded from your account at any time after you complete the full workshop or course.
  13. Everyone in the class must abide by the Classroom Code of Conduct.
  14. These are non-credit workshops/courses, meaning they cannot be applied towards the completion of a university or college certificate, diploma or degree.
  15. If you have questions about a certificate being accepted by the ECE Registry, please contact them at 1-888-338-6622 or look on their website here: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/early-learning/teach/training-and-professional-development/become-an-early-childhood-educator/renew-maintain-ece-certification

By registering for a workshop / course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with these policies.

We are all guests in the training room. In an effort to maintain a safe and welcoming environment, we ask that we follow these guidelines:

  1. Respect people’s choices, experiences and feelings.
  2. One person speaks at a time.
  3. Participate actively by including your voice and make space for other voices to be heard.
  4. Respect confidentiality, what is said in the group, stays in the group. Speak in private with the instructor if necessary.
  5. Assume the best intent. This is a space to learn and sometimes that means making mistakes.
  6. Take care of yourself, whatever that may look like.
  7. Mute your microphone to reduce background noise and unmute it for group discussions, to comment or ask questions.

By registering for a workshop / course participants declare they have read, understood and agree with these policies.

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In keeping with our eco-conscious goal of reducing paper use, handouts, resources and certificates will be sent by email. In this way, participants will have a resource that can be saved and viewed across various devices, shared and printed anytime.

We may take some photographs (including a Zoom group picture) during workshops/courses with the purpose of promoting our training. By registering you consent to allow us or others attending to take your photograph. If it’s okay with the facilitator, you may photograph materials, slides, books, etc., but not film the workshop.

Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) require a minimum of 40 hours of professional development to renew a certificate to practice. Select topics you would like to expand on or that you’re passionate about.

Registered Family Child Care Providers (RLNR) are required to complete at least 4 hours of professional development before their annual renewal date.

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Professional Development Team
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
pro-d@westcoastfamily.org
604-709-5661 EXT 1221