Short Workshops
Engage in a range of hands-on workshops offering valuable insights and practical tools for early childhood development.
WORKSHOP | 03
Creating a Playful Environment that Includes Everyone
Dr Geraldine Teo-Zuzarte
WORKSHOP | 05
Playing with Stories: Creating Collaborative Improvised Stories with Your Children
Sheila Wee
WORKSHOP | 07
MUSICAL MOMENTS: Using Music to Explore Numeracy in Children’s Literature
Wincey Terry-Bryant
Workshop
1
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 10:00-12:00
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Multi Purpose Hall #01-03
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Samantha Bounaparte
Organisation:
Republic Polytechnic
Workshop Title:
Sensory Storytelling Spectacle
Come and join us for a workshop on sensory storytelling! Multisensory storytelling engages all of the senses – touch, smell, sound, taste, visual materials, and movement – to create a truly immersive and inclusive learning experience for young children.
We will guide you through a series of sensory activities using everyday items and sensory methods to promote well-being and rediscover your senses.
You will learn practical strategies and tools for incorporating sensory storytelling into your own early childhood development programs, helping to create engaging and diverse learning environments for all children.
Workshop
2
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 10:00-12:00
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Multi Purpose Studio A #01-05
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Ambre Lee
Organisation:
Independent
Workshop Title:
Embodying Play: An experiential workshop
Play allows for the very fundamental aspect of being, feeling and having a sense of self. An essential process to develop our ability to navigate our world, think beyond the box, and develop new ways to be curious about ourselves, our experiences and others. Step into an immersive space, an experiential workshop that will hopefully illuminate an experience of play that is felt and alive in the body.
Nurture your own sense of playfulness, embrace spontaneity and silliness. Allow this experience of embodied play to help you integrate playful experiences into your work as educators. Come gather ideas, reconnect with and reignite your playful creative flame – You can only truly invite play when you’ve given yourself permission to play!
Workshop
3
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 10:00-12:00
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Multi Purpose Studio B #01-06
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Dr Geraldine Teo-Zuzarte
Organisation:
Independent
Workshop Title:
Creating a Playful Environment that Includes Everyone
“What are the skills that children will need for success in the 21st century?” This question has been posed many times and, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to consider this question again with a new lens as we continue to live in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous) world.
This workshop will explore the principles and approaches for playful learning, as well as consider how the principles for Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can enable educators to plan and implement inclusive experiences for their learners.
Workshop
4
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 10:00-12:00
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Music Studio #01-02
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Melissa Simin Goh-Karssen
Organisation:
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Workshop Title:
Imagination and Creativity in Everyday Moments
Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
In early childhood development, this is a fundamental skill, which helps children make meaning of the world around them (Ganis & Paterson, 2011). It is where creativity, ingenuity, and thinking outside the box begin for child development.
Imagination plays a critical role in early development, increasing children’s cognitive, creative, and social skills. Imaginative children can explore their thoughts and feelings more deeply and learn how to solve problems creatively. They can put these lessons to good use as they build friendships and pursue personal goals.
Imagination and creativity are children’s voices in its most authentic form and children can benefit greatly from a vivid imagination, especially with the support of key adult figures in their lives, such as parents and teachers.
In this workshop, we explore the essence of imagination and creativity in everyday moments of children’s lives and recognize ways in which we can support and encourage these moments through direct and indirect our responses and interactions.
Workshop
5
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 14:30-16:30
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Multi Purpose Hall #01-03
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Sheila Wee
Organisation:
Storywise
Workshop Title:
Playing with Stories: Creating Collaborative Improvised Stories with Your Children
This workshop focuses on incorporating play into storytelling; creating a collaborative and engaging experience for both children and teachers. Improvising a story on the spot may sound daunting, but it is not, once you realise that you can rely on the children to come up with most of the ideas.
I started doing this with my K1 class back in the early 90s, long before I became a storyteller. I was hesitant and not too confident. But I soon realised that it didn’t matter how silly a story seemed, or whether the ending was lame. The children were coming up with ideas, using language and feeling a strong sense of ownership over the story they had helped to create. I would often write these stories out and put them up in the wall and it would be an everyday occurrence for me to see children clustered around helping each other read their story.
I have spent the past 25 years playing with story, much of it working with early childhood teachers. I now know a lot more about how to structure a story; knowledge that would have helped me be more confident in creating stories with my class. I can now share this knowledge with you, and help you and your children to become playful, confident story improvisers.
In this workshop we will play with stories; so that you can learn to confidently engage in story play with your class. We will
· explore the basic principles of effective story structure
· learn a simple method that will allow you to easily co-create stories with your class
· work in groups to experience creating story with a story structure template
· play together in different ways to improvise stories
Workshop
6
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 14:30-16:30
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Multi Purpose Studio A #01-05
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Faye Lim
Organisation:
Rolypoly Family
Workshop Title:
Our Turn! A Playful Movement Workshop
Our Turn! A Playful Movement Workshop is a time and space dedicated to ECD Professionals and prioritises their play, enjoyment and pleasure. Although ECD Professionals are often working with children and may already be engaging with play-based approaches, they may not have as much time on their own explorations, experiments, discoveries, and sensations. Our Turn! is a guided experience that provides the facilitation and tools for ECD Professionals to get playful with their movement and body competencies. During the workshop, Rolypoly Family will also share about the inclusiveness of their approach to movement play, and why it supports children’s social-emotional development. In addition, ECD Professionals will get to reflect upon the value they derive from playing and sharing play with their community of children.
Workshop
7
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 14:30-16:30
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Multi Purpose Studio B #01-06
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Wincey Terry-Bryant
Organisation:
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts
Workshop Title:
MUSICAL MOMENTS: Using Music to Explore Numeracy in Children’s Literature
Tap into young children’s love of music and stories to spark meaningful exploration of math concepts. Learn ways to identify math opportunities in children’s books and stories, and create catchy songs, chants, to enhance math learning. Explore the use of music as a classroom management and assessment tool.
Workshop
8
Date: 20-Sep-23
Time: 14:30-16:30
Venue:
Aliwal Arts Centre
Music Studio #01-02
28 Aliwal St, Singapore 199918
Presenter:
Karen Chin, Dian Idaly
Organisation:
The Preschool Task Force at Mandai Wildlife Reserve
Workshop Title:
Nature Play
Nature play significantly improves all aspects of child development – physical, cognitive, social and emotional. At Mandai Wildlife Reserve, nature education is curated in a playful manner to promote resilience, creativity and pro-conservation behaviour in children. This workshop invites participants to explore how nature’s loose parts can be used to unleash the play potential in both children and adults. It also introduces transferable techniques that encourage discovery learning of wildlife, conservation, and sustainability in the great outdoors, classrooms or just about anywhere.
Please bring something you wish to reuse, upcycle or transform to this workshop.