Mind in the Making Series

Mind in the Making Series

CCR&R is excited to share with you the science of early learning in ways that transform groundbreaking research into action.

By Child Care Resource & Referral - ARIZONA

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Tuesday, May 7 · 6 - 8pm PDT

Location

Online

Agenda

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Focus and Self Control - April 30, 2024

Focus and Self Control - Children need this skill to achieve goals, especially in a world filled with distractions and information overload. This includes paying attention, exercising self-control, r...

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Perspective Taking - May 7, 2024

Perspective Taking - This involves understanding what others think and feel and forms the basis for children’s understanding of the intentions of parents, teachers and friends. Children with this ski...

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Communication - May 14, 2024

Communicating - Much more than understanding language, reading, writing and speaking, communicating is the skill of determining what one wants to communicate and realizing how it will be understood b...

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Making Connections - May 21, 2024

Making Connections - This Life Skill is at the heart of learning: figuring out what’s the same, what’s different, and sorting them into categories. Making unusual connections is at the core of creati...

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Critical Thinking - June 4, 2024

Critical Thinking - This skill helps children analyze and evaluate information to guide their beliefs, decisions and actions. Children need critical thinking to make sense of the world around them an...

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Taking on Challenges - June 11, 2024

Taking on Challenges - Children who take on challenges instead of avoiding or simply coping with them achieve better in school and in life. Rules, and thinking flexibility.

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Self-Directed, Engaged Learning - June 18, 2024

Self-Directed, Engaged Learning - By setting goals and strategies for learning, children become attuned and better prepared to change as the world changes. This helps children foster their innate cur...

About this event

Welcome to the Mind in the Making Series!

Children and adults need more than just academic knowledge to succeed and thrive in school and life. They also need essential life skills based on executive function. Executive function refers to attention and regulation skills that enable us to use our working memories, think flexibly, and use self-control to solve problems rather than acting on impulse. Executive function is foundational to life skills like setting goals, collaborating, and taking on challenges. Yet, such skills don’t just happen. We learn them with support and practice.

CCR&R is offering a FREE 7-module online training series: Mind in the Making: Essential Life Skills for Children and Adults. Anyone can attend and is ideal for early childhood educators, parents, grandparents, foster parents, community members, and all types of caregivers, as well as professionals of all kinds! You do not have to attend all 7 sessions. However, it is required if you want to get a certificate and/or training hours in the Arizona Workforce Registry.

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