What does your classroom environment communicate about yourself and the children? Do you enjoy being in your space? How do children and families react to the classroom? Utilizing Debbie Curtis and Margie Carter’s book, Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments, as our inspiration, we will use the day to reflect on the strengths of your center based classroom and work through the struggles you may have encountered. Join us for an interactive, hands-on day examining the ins and outs of classroom environments. We’ll explore the connection between behavior and a child’s environment, and how to make adaptations to be inclusive of children with varying abilities and cultural backgrounds. We will encourage you to draw on your own sense of design, comfort, and aesthetics while being mindful of tight budgets and limited resources. Let’s create captivating environments that nurture children, families, and staff while supporting children’s learning!
Trainer: Liz Charland-Tait
Liz Charland-Tait has been working in the Early Childhood field for over 25 years. She has served as a Lead Teacher in Infant/Toddler & Preschool classrooms, as an Early Head Start Infant Toddler Specialist, a Center Based Director for a private non-profit program in California and a Head Start/Early Head Start program in Massachusetts. Liz has supported numerous programs as they navigated the QRIS system. Currently, Liz is working as the Strong Start Early Childhood Education Community Program Coach. Liz also consults with & mentors program owners and their leadership teams, as well as creates and facilitates trainings for the field. She has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Montana and a Master's of Early Childhood Education from San Francisco State University. When not at work, Liz enjoys spending time with her family which now includes the sweetest dog she has ever met named Maisey.
PDC Region: Western
Training Address: 1350 West St.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Training Sessions: 11/11/2019 9:00am - 3:00pm
CEU bearing Conference, English
0.5 CEUs / 5 hours
Registration Link: https://connectedbeginnings.tfaforms.net/242
Registration closes on: November 4th
We cannot accommodate walk-ins or late registrations for this training.