Conference, General, Learning

Professional Development Opportunities for Teachers and Childcare Workers

Calling all educators and professionals who work with children and youth!  The Puppet Power 2018: Story Conference presents key learnings and tools vital to professionals in education, healthcare and therapy.  Puppetry is not only an effective learning tool in the classroom but can also be a valuable healing tool.  Come to the whole conference to learn more or get tickets to a workshop or talk of your choice.  Learn new skills and be inspired by some of these workshops and talks:
Learn from Jovanka Rivi from Reggio Emilia!
The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy based on the image of the child, and of human beings, as possessing strong potentials for development and as a subject of rights who learns and grows in the relationships with others. Jovanka Rivi has been a Pedagogical coordinator member of the pedagogical coordinating team of the Istituzione Scuole e Nidi d’Infanzia del Comune di Reggio Emilia (Municipality of Reggio Emilia) since 2004.

Jovanka will be presenting two talks at our Puppet Power Conference!  On Friday, June 1, the conference will commence with a buffet dinner and talk by Jovanka Rivi:

Jovanka will also be presenting the talk, Expressive Languages in Reggio Emilia Infant, Toddler Centres & Preschools, on Saturday, June 2. Both talks are co-presented by the Calgary Reggio Network Association and will be translated by Anna Marinzi.

Learn about Mulat Theater’s workshops for daycare workers to build their capacity to work with children in a post-disaster context through puppetry and emphasized that puppetry can serve as a communication tool for rebuilding and recovery in this talk:

In this interactive presentation participants are invited to engage with the processes, emergences, and insights from a project focusing on birds that has taken place over the last three years in the Capilano University Children’s Centre and Studio with children ages 2-5 years:

Using natural and found materials, along with digital and other electronic tools, participants will create layered environments as backgrounds for storytelling, shadow play and puppetry in this workshop: