"Did you know? Did you know?
Did you know when you wonder you're learning?
... About all kinds of wonderful, all kinds of marvelous, marvelously
wonderful things."
-- Lyrics from "Did You Know?" by Fred Rogers
Let's Explore: Encouraging Curiosity in Young
Children
This workshop focuses on the kinds of experiences that help young children
develop a positive attitude about curiosity, exploring, experimenting, and
investigating. The overall goal is to help early childhood educators
feel more confident encouraging children's curiosity.
This 3 hour workshop from
Family Communications
(the production company for Mr. Roger's Neighborhood)
focuses on helping early-childhood educators to feel comfortable with
children’s curiosity and to value it; to recognize curiosity in infants,
toddlers and preschoolers, and to learn strategies for encouraging that
curiosity in both girls and boys. It’s meant to help them understand that
science is a process, a way of looking at the world, to understand how it
works and that it’s okay not to know all the answers - nobody does!
This workshop is NOT about teaching science. Young
children don't necessarily need scientific answers. What they want and
need is permission to wonder, explore, and experiment. They'll find
their own answers. They need encouragement for trying to make connections...
trying to find relationships... trying to figure things out.
Te goals for this workshop are for participants to:
- Understand why curiosity is important for learning;
- Recognize how infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
explore with their senses and abilities;
- Learn strategies for encouraging curiosity - in girls
as well as boys.
If you would like more information about
"Let's Explore: Encouraging Curiosity in Young Children", would like to set up a training, or for help in finding
educational opportunities in your area...
contact me.
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