Building Social and Emotional Skills and Wellbeing in the VEYLDF

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Learn how to build, develop and refresh your existing knowledge for supporting social and emotional learning and wellbeing in the young children at your early childhood service setting.
  • Level: Beginner/Intermediate
  • Duration:  12 hours 
  • Video Time:  4+ hours
  • Presented by: Anne Houghton

What's included?

Online course content

The course is comprised of four modules, each providing two pre-recorded webinars:

Module 1: Key features include: important philosophy, beliefs and theories; importance of play; brain research; social and emotional development; understanding emotions; positive relationships; wellbeing and resilience; self-regulation, focus and attention; self-esteem; social sensitivity; supportive environments for social interaction; case study one; reflective questions.
Module 2: Theories; social competence; developing social understanding; empathy and emotional competence; communicating emotions; identifying different emotions; recognising facial expressions; case study two; reflective questions.
Module 3: Professional learning; understanding children’s behaviour; values and attitudes; behaviour research and theories; engaging with families; developing a setting approach; guidance approach strategies; challenging behaviours; case study three; reflective questions.
Module 4: Accountability; values, beliefs and philosophy; Code of Ethics; intentional teaching; planning cycles; learning and development transitions; professional learning; quality early childhood settings; case study four; reflective questions.

Support books

Four leading texts provide insight, information, examples of pedagogy and practice, and reflective tasks for supporting children and families who have diverse cultural backgrounds. They also provide a long-term resource your team can revisit again and again.
Presenter

Anne Houghton

Anne Houghton’s 38 years in early childhood education include diverse roles and experiences. She worked as a kindergarten teacher for 32 years, then held various roles at Gowrie Victoria. These included working as a Kindergarten Cluster Management Coordinator, an Early Childhood Consultant in Resources and Advice, Trainer and Assessor of Diploma and Certificate 3 in Children’s Services and Professional Development Presenter.
Anne is also a published author of There Stood Our Dog, a children’s story book, illustrated by Craig Smith and co-author of three publications titled Engaging Families in your Early Childhood Services, Learning Environments: Inspiring Spaces, and Visible Learning in Family Day Care, funded through the Community Childcare Association of Victoria. Anne has had inspiring experiences presenting at conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Japan and Malaysia. She has also worked as a casual research assistant in mentoring projects with the Bastow Institute and the University of Melbourne. 
Anne now works as a sessional lecturer in the School of Education at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and as a presenter for Play Australia.