Mindfulness and Purpose in Early Childhood Education

By Tricia Kassotis

Harried Classroom?  Push Pause …

Return to the basics and true joy of working with children.  Pause and adopt a mindful and minimalistic approach to programming. Reduce the noise and slow down your harried classroom. Enjoy simple ways to get back of the essentials of early childhood education and care.

Tricia Kassotis is a retired, veteran school age teacher that enjoyed the 'old days' of simple child care environments.  Let her show you how to get back to the basics of an unhurried playroom, rich with simple programming that both you and children can take the time to enjoy.

Featured reading inside:

• Mindful care and programming … what are we talking about?
• How to make strong connections with children.
• Simple steps for a mindful classroom set up.
• Easy ways to make inquiry the focus of programming.
• Purposeful activities to try.
• Sensory rich play recipes
• Hygge for child care environments

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tricia Kassotis
• Release date: Jun 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393846475

Tricia Kassotis

Tricia Kassotis is a retired school age program teacher turned college instructor from Ottawa, Canada. She maintains her first love, the education of children, by teaching her students about the importance of providing daily quality program planning to children. She also tames the flurry of available ECE programming ideas into a mindfulness blog, ebook, and social media presence.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Remember to Keep Early Childhood Education Simple.

Be a Healthy Teacher ... Take Care You.

Mindful Care and Programming ... What are we talking about?

Make Strong Connections with Children.

Conversations vs Talking to Children.

Mindful Classroom Set Up

Provocations and Inquiry.

Make Inquiry the Focus of Programming.

Purposeful Activities to Try.

Learning Stories

How to Create Learning Story in Six Steps

HDLH? How Does Learning Happen and Minimalism

Hygge in Child Care

REMEMBER TO KEEP EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION SIMPLE

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MAINTAIN THE ROOTS OF EARLY CHILHOOD EDUCATION

In this ever changing world of early childhood learning and theories, early childhood educators should never forget the roots and spirit of their early childhood education:

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CHILD DEVELOPMENT.  Early childhood educators are masters in early child development.  It is what we know.  We know young children and how they develop.  That is our specialty.  It is our craft.

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OBSERVATION SKILLS.  Early childhood educators know how to observe children and learn where they are on the developmental scales.

PROGRAM THROUGH PLAY. Early childhood educators respect the fact that children learn through play and play based activities.

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And every ECE, who wants to calls themselves an ECE, should be able to:

Make play dough.

Run circle time.

Capture and maintain the creative imagination of young children.

BE A HEALTHY TEACHER ~ TAKE CARE YOU