ECE Webinar: Fostering Playful Learning & Joyful Classrooms

What more could anyone want for children than a happy early childhood? This free webinar, hosted by Early Learning Investigations, will describe how preschool programs can create a joyful culture of caring, cooperation, creativity, learning, and social-emotional health. The information will be presented by psychotherapist and acclaimed author, Martha Heineman Pieper, and director of the Natalie G. Heineman Smart Love Preschool, Kelly Perez, who will share information based on the principles in their book, The Happiest Preschool: A Manual for Teachers.

Join Martha and Kelly for an inspiring overview of how playful learning, developmentally appropriate expectations, positive behavior management, and enhancement of children’s curiosity can lay the foundation for a joyful preschool classroom and healthy child development.

Presenters will share examples of how learning is best done through active play based solely on each child’s interests rather than trying to bring the entire class together through themes or units. 

In this presentation, participants will learn…

• how to manage children’s behavior using loving Regulation, that is, positively and without any negativity.
• what is age-appropriate for preschool and kindergarten children, and how to adjust your expectations of them accordingly.
• why skills are best learned in active play based on each individual child’s interests.
• how to connect children’s fantasy play to underlying concerns and wishes.
• to help children be all of themselves by acknowledging and accepting all of their feelings.

Register for free to watch a recording of this webinar through the Early Learning Investigations website.