INTENTIONAL PRACTICES FOR ACTIVE SUPERVISION

Facilitated by: Tina Geers, Protector of Play

You turn for 30 seconds and BAM! The children are climbing the shelves, running over, around, and under things, biting is now a sport, and chaos has erupted in your play space! What happened?! How can you ensure children’s safety when chaos is happening? As early childhood educators, our role is not to simply watch children but to provide a space where they are safe to explore and discover. To do this, we need to ensure we are supervising children with intentionality and purpose. Active supervision is about taking an active role in children’s play while creating a safe space for them to do so. Engaging in active supervision sometimes means we stand back, observe and document children in play, showing our own wonder and curiosity in their explorations. While other times, it requires us to become an active part of the children’s play and remind them of safety parameters and helping them think through problems and encouraging them to solve it! If we want our supervision strategies to be effective, we need to be intentional in our own practices! In this session, we will discuss many ways to engage in active supervision that ensures children are free to play and learn. We will review case studies of difficult situations to supervise and how to overcome these moments of chaos. Sometimes, we need to be wild with them in order to embrace the play!

Location: Zoom

Cost
London/Middlesex: Pay What You Can
Elgin/Oxford: Free With Access Code

Registration closes on Friday, March 20 at 12:00 PM

* Ticket types are based on the county you WORK in. Elgin and Oxford professionals, use your access code to reveal your ticket type.

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