Lisa Murphey Ooey Gooey Lady

100 Jackpot Place,Wyandotte OK 74370

17 June, 2023

Description

Lisa Murphy presents a way to incorporate more play in the classroom. Many Kinds of Smart Think you are good at your job because you love children? What about the ones that challenge you? Using these powerful questions as a framework, Lisa puts her own spin on Howard Gardner's classic theory. This session is a far cry from simply listing various personality characteristics, needs and preferences. By providing easy to implement, yet possibly challenging, "comfort zone stretchers, " Lisa challenges teachers to make sure they are celebrating all of the children in the classroom, not just the ones they like. Oh Those Little Ones! A successful infant/ toddler room is not identified by the number of STARS the program has earned, but rather by how caring, responsive, engaging and stress-free the environment is. Are these babies able to trust that all their needs are going to be met? While this session provides highlights from attachment and schema play theory and offers hands-on exploration of activities that are appropriate in Infant/ toddler rooms, its main focus is reminding those working with our youngest that nothing, and we mean nothing! is more important than creating a nurturing strong bond of attachment. Circles are for Squares This is not another "things to do in circle time" workshop. Actually, this session will question why we are doing circle time in the first place. Lisa asks a very direct question: Why do we intrerupt engaged children to come to a meeting? And if we are going to bring them to the carpet for a meeting , it better be a darn good meeting! Using a "circle time sandwich" metaphor, she offers ideas for all of the possible "sandwich filings" yet, in this session focuses mostly on the metaphorical filling of books and stories. Modeling what she mens by organic enthusiam, Lisa will share examples of "good" childrens Books throughout the entire session. She might read some too!