Workshop | Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators Sensory Perception and Movement

Hybrid Hands-On Professional Development Training Programs for Early Childhood Educators Sensory Perception and Movement

Teachers and educators often ask Embodied Learning: “Should we teach children those skills, or can they learn them themselves?” Discover how children’s (0-5) sensory perception and movement impact their autonomous learning and competence. Embodied Learning’s approach in this PD training is: “If children do it, we should do it too.”

Agenda & Learning Topics

Exploring Tactile, Auditory, and Olfactory Systems, Their Integration, and Beyond

Activity #1: Resonating Clothing Hangers. Activity #2: “The Journey to Standing Up.” Activity #3: “Peeling an Orange.” Topics: Time perception, stimuli’s intensity, tactile and auditory competence, fine and gross motor skills + imagination, balance and kinesthetics, curiosity and discovery, and autonomous learning experiences v. direct instruction.

Exploring Balance, Sound, Gravity, and Behavior

Activity #4: Body Xylophone (Sensory Integration, Psychomotor Education, Special Needs). Activity #5: “Running and Laughing” Activity #6: Paper Parachute. Topics: Proprioception, sensory integration & behavior, overstimulation, self-regulation, elements of psychomotor education, sensory integration through collaborative play

Learning From Everyone’s Sensory Systems Through Play and Movement

Activity #7: “Snowball Fight.” Activity #8: “That’s You!” a body-scheme game. Topics: Sensory integration through collaborative play, body scheme and discovery of the individual “form,” embodied cognition, and learning through imitation.