Virtual Engagement for Remote Learning – ECE Professionals (ages 3-8)
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About this event
To deal with distance learning successfully as early childhood educators, we need:
- A well-prepared play/learning environment that works on camera;
- A child-centered time management plan for our interactions with children and families;
- A creative mindset that helps us see play and learning opportunities everywhere at home – EG: What can I do with a wooden spoon? What can this wooden spoon do for me?
- But most and foremost, we need to like ourselves and what we do on camera. We need to cope with seeing ourselves at work in a mirror (the screen). We need to work on us to make an impact on children's healthy development.
Embodied Learning has been working with educators for 15 years using sensory exploration, movement, and imagination.
As the pandemic outbroke, I shifted my in-person training and professional development services to make Embodied Learning happen virtually by keeping its impact on real-life unchanged.
Now I want to share my best practices with you because children need you at your best.
This very dynamic 1.5-hour virtual workshop is about:
- Educator's prepared environment – Technical aspects of education/pedagogical work on camera that make an impact.
- 1:1 virtual engagement – How only 10 minutes of professional, virtual, individual daily work with each child will make everybody happy.
- "Partners in Learning" – How to help parents embody crucial developmental steps and needs of their young children while living, playing, and thriving together in screen-free environments.
- Everyday life materials – Objects can change adults' perspective on caregiver-child relationship: explore materials available in every house in children's play and learning adventures.
Along with this virtual workshop, you'll receive:
- a certificate of participation.
- an exhaustive handout with inspiring pictures, quotes, and literature.
- a 40% discount coupon for 1:1 Embodied Learning coaching and consultancy.
- a 25% discount coupon for one Embodied Learning virtual training for you and your faculty/staff/team colleagues.
Organizer Embodied Learning – Tommaso Lana
Organizer of Virtual Engagement for Remote Learning – ECE Professionals (ages 3-8)
Tommaso Lana, MA
Tommaso is an award-winning performance and consulting artist, creator of Embodied Learning.
Embodied Learning is a multidisciplinary experiential training program that transforms educators’ communication and collaboration through sensory play, movement, and imagination.
With his Embodied Learning projects and training sessions, Tommaso has been serving educators and children’s librarians at Caltech Children’s Center, Google Children Centers, Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, Los Angeles Public Library, New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, San Mateo (CA) County Libraries, Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, PA) Library Association and more.
Between 2005 and 2008, Tommaso worked as manager of visitors services, teaching artist, and facilitator at the permanent interactive exhibit “Experience Field for The Development of The Senses,” Wiesbaden, Germany.
In 2008 he started up his Berlin-based performance art and consultancy firm serving organizations all across Europe.
In 2010-2011 Tommaso co-directed the German Representative for Cultural and Media Affairs award-winning social-art project “Paradise 2: What is Energy?”. The project addressed the future of identity and community in regions impacted by vibrant economic and social transitions.
Between 2010 and 2016 he designed, crafted, and curated the “Learning Outside” exhibit at the Preschool Museum, Berlin (which recently moved to Uelzen, Germany) focusing on reinventing the appreciation of learning through sensory experiences, movement, and imagination.
In 2017 he moved to New York City to spread Embodied Learning across the United States.
Tommaso is a keynote speaker and Edutopia writer.
Since the 2016 edition, he performs and mentors at SXSWedu, Austin, TX
In 2020, over 2,600 educators could earn certificates through his virtual performance at NAEYC Institute 2020.
During the COVID pandemic, he launched Embodied Learning at Home, a video series to support parents who stuck at home with their young children through play.
He has a Master’s degree in social history from the University of Milan, Italy.
