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August 2016
Inspiring Spaces Open House
Register today A highlight of the EChO professional development calendar is our site tour event - every year it books out, every year you want more! This year, we wanted to give you more - and we have! Choose how many sites you want to visit, choose which ones you go to, choose how long you stay... in fact, CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!!! Ten of South Australia's most inspiring sites are opening their doors for you to visit on Saturday…
Find out more »September 2016
Shared conversations with the Waldorf School
Register Today Join in a conversation about the Waldorf/Steiner pedagogy and philosophy and explore and experience with their outdoor spaces including their Bush Kindy. Limited seats!
Find out more »November 2016
Term 4 conference
Collaborating with the Primary Maths Association
Find out more »May 2017
EChO Twilights presents: Mindfulness in the Early Years
Mindfulness can play an important part in early childhood education This 90-minute workshop is designed to be experiential, interactive and most importantly provide a taste of what mindfulness is and the part that it can play in making your work with young children more rewarding and sustainable. You will learn some simple mindfulness skills that you can take away and practise for your personal well-being and practise with children. Â Guest Speaker, Tina Gibson Over the past three years I…
Find out more »June 2017
Supporting Young Readers Before (and After) They Are Reading Conventionally
Reading development doesn’t start with decoding words. Young children create meaning from a text long before they can read it conventionally. Even after children start to decode we should support their reading of texts they can’t read conventionally. Adults can nurture children’s identities as readers by recognizing the language that children use as they interact with familiar and unfamiliar books. Once we see what children can do on their own, we can nudge them forward towards more sophisticated thinking and…
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