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Supportive Guidance for Challenging Behaviour in School-aged Children
with Jan Blaxall
9:00 am- 12:00 pm
In early years and elementary school settings, there are some children who struggle with strong emotions and self-regulation. While some of these children will have diagnosed special needs that require outside intervention, many more can learn to self-regulate with appropriate individual support and specific strategies. This session focuses on the principles of individualized approaches to supporting self-regulation that have worked for those who work with children from 4 to 8 years.
Facilitator Bio: Jan Blaxall, M.A.Sc. (Psychology),RECE.,AECEO.C.
Jan was a professor, teaching Early Childhood Education courses at Fanshawe College, London, and Conestoga College, Kitchener, for 30 years. Jan served as a member of an Expert Panel on an Early Learning Framework, for Ontario’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services. This served as a foundation document for the Ministry of Education’s framework – How Does Learning Happen? Jan has co-authored an ECE textbook, Children at the Centre: Principles of Early Childhood Education in Canada. She contributes articles to the Canadian Child Care Federation’s Journal, Interaction, and isan editor and contributor for the Ideas Journal of Emotional Well-being, which is a regular feature of Interaction.
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