BCMA FALL CONFERENCE
Friday October 23, 2020
Fall 2015 Conference - Friday October 23, 2015
The Essential Montessori Environment
KEY NOTE SPEAKER:
Lorena T. Seidel - The Purposeful Child
Lorena Seidel is the founder of The Purposeful ChildTM, an effective program for parents and educators of young children that focuses on the development of important social, emotional, and life skills, resulting in children who feel capable, confident, and competent in daily life. She draws her research from successful approaches such as Montessori and Waldorf, and principles of Social Emotional Learning(SEL), as well as the latest brain research. Lorena's work supports, motivates, and educates parents, caregivers, and teachers in their everyday work with children through workshops, lectures, classes, and one-on-one consulting.
KEY NOTE ADDRESS: “Montessori Inspired Curriculum”
Ways to apply this successful research based principles in traditional schools
The Montessori Method is known for its success in teaching children all around the world. Many parents are turning to progressive approaches to education in order to provide their children with the skills needed for the 21st century jobs and life style. However, traditional schools can also apply this research based principles to develop students’ independence, concentration, coordination, language, self-confidence, and love of learning through multi-sensory, self-guided, concrete, hands-on learning materials and activities.
Morning Breakout Session: “Positive Discipline Solutions in the Classroom”
Successful tools to solving social, emotional and behavioral challenges.
Bring teachers into the child’s world and can help them welcome the child’s perspectives. These workshops will supply educators with many successful tools to be used when handling social, emotional and behavioral challenges. Teachers can learn how to create a classroom climate that enhances academic learning, uses encouragement rather than praise and rewards. Through experiential learning methods students can practice better cooperation, social skills, self-direction, responsibility, and mutual respect in the classroom. Building students’ sense of community, preparing them for successful living, and increasing academic achievement the Positive Discipline way.
Afternoon Breakout Session: “The Purposeful Classroom”
Creating the optimum learning environment for young students
Research shows that cluttered and overstimulating classrooms can hinder learning. Participants will learn how to create a beautiful and purposeful classroom environment to foster student’s Social-Emotional Learning. Students will develop concentration, independence, self-confidence, self-regulation, creativity and more as teachers learn how to empower students to take charge, pride and responsibility for their surrounding.
Morning & Afternoon Breakout Sessions:
Based on the forest schools model of education, Saplings Outdoor Program is nature-based program for children ages 2.5 to 6 years old. Our program aims to provide children with the opportunity to connect with the natural environment and learn through authentic play experiences. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to nature education in early childhood. They will learn about the benefits of outdoor play for children, and gain skills and knowledge that will enable them to support children’s play in natural settings. If feasible, this will be a hands-on workshop, taking place in a green space beside the Burnaby Hilton. It is our aim that participants will finish this workshop with a better understanding of how they can support young children’s play and learning in natural outdoor settings.
Morning Breakout Session:
Teachers will learn a creative way to teach the sounds and shapes of the alphabet letters and how to help children develop phonemic awareness. They will also discover how to incorporate the Whole Language approach into their program so that the children feel confident and excited about learning to read. Letters are abstract symbols, which are of no interest to children as long as they remain abstract. Teachers will learn a unique way to bring life to these symbols and to provide a memory hook between the symbol and the sound that the letter makes in a word. It is “Detective Dave Fun” in Fun Family Phonics, who discovers the letter shapes and sounds by observing the world around him. In the book Fun Family Rhymes, Dave discovers that he can blend letters together to make three letter words and then find rhyming words and create poems. Stories, pictures, games, and songs combine to make learning a delight and you will be amazed at how quickly children learn. This program is also great for ESL students
Afternoon Breakout Session:
Since 1980, I have been teaching educational music to children aged 3 to 9 years of age. I currently teach at Place des Arts in Coquitlam. Over the years I have taught at several music academies and at several Montessori Preschools . I see close to 300 young children each week. The program I teach is called The Musical Rainbow, which is a multicultural and educational music program for children. It is a combination of Kodaly, Orff and Suzuki ideas.
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SPEAKER: Heather Fraser - Saplings Outdoor Program
Heather Fraser is very passionate about working with children and has a love for the outdoors. She has taught in a number of early childhood settings including toddler, preschool and school aged programs. She has a passion for nature and is always excited to share that passion with others around her. She spends her time gardening with her two children, and exploring the beautiful trails and beaches around her home. Heather feels that it is important to get outside whatever the weather and connect with the world around her.
Heather's academic background includes a Bachelor's degree in child and youth care from the University of Victoria, as well as an Early Childhood Certificate. She continue to take many professional development course in a variety of Early Childhood Education to keep up with current information in the field. Heather's passion for outdoor play and her understanding of the importance to connect our children with nature has inspired her to build Saplings Outdoor Program.
SPEAKER: Muriel Endersby - Fun Family Phonics
Muriel Enderby Fun Family Phonics is the culmination of 35 years of teaching experience.After graduating in education from the University of London, Muriel began teaching in Wimbledon, England. It was there that she and a colleague invented stories about each letter of the alphabet, linking sound and shape. Over the years the stories have changed as Muriel has taught in England, Ontario and British Columbia. She has taught the children of linguists in Cameroon, Africa and worked with their parents who were Home Educators. She has also taught English to teachers in China. Training in Linguistics and ESL as well as many other courses has proved helpful in developing the materials that comprise the “Fun Family Phonics” series. Muriel continually updates and adds to her material to keep it current with the needs of the teachers and children. She has been a college instructor in Language and Literature and owned a preschool in White Rock for many years. Muriel published her first book in 1995. Her first two books are now Canadian Best Sellers.
SINGER: Mr. I - & The Rainbow Singers
After moving to Canada from Germany when he was only two years old. He grew up mostly in Port Moody and Coquitlam having the best childhood ever, lots of fun with his wonderful parents, and after graduating from high school he traveled around BC in a volkswagon van living off the land and enjoying the majestic surroundings around him. After his travels he went to a variety of music schools where his craft grew; Vancouver Community College Music School for 3 years, receiving a diploma with a major in Flute, Selkirk College Music Department for a 1 year music study, University of British Columbia for 2 years, to study Music and Fine Arts, Simon Fraser University for 1 year of general studies, and the University of Calgay Summer Programs on Kodaly Pedagogy. Mr. I's mandate is world peace. To show through his teaching and through his music how we are all connected. Each thing that we do, say and even think affects not only all life on this planet, but has an effect on the entire universe. We are all connected, and we are all important, bright shining stars. He thinks of the earth as one country, all people part of the same family.
Come join us at
The Burnaby Hilton, 6083 McKay Ave, Burnaby, BC V5H 2W7
Friday October 23 -2015
Registration Opens at 8:00am