ZERO TO THREE
The Growing Brain Basics Seminar
How babies’ brains grow in the context of relationships is one of the most essential topics in early childhood development. Research on this topic is exploding, underscoring the need for early childhood professionals to learn about the foundations of brain development and the strategies to best support the growing brains of infants and young children. This series supports participants’ exploration of key concepts, research, and concrete strategies from ZERO TO THREE’s The Growing Brain: From Birth to 5 Years Old curriculum.
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Tuesday, July 18th from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
SPACE
Join the Brain Basics webinar to explore how the brain grows and develops from conception to 5 years old and how you can support healthy brain development during these years when the brain is the most plastic or receptive to change.
Learning objectives
- Recognize the basic parts of the brain and recall their functions.
- Summarize how nerve cells communicate and connect.
- Identify factors that affect brain growth and development.
- Describe how to support healthy brain development.
Tuesday, July 25th from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Cognitive Development: Language and Executive Function
Learn about the cognitive skills of language and executive function from Birth to five years, how these skills are heavily intertwined and support each other, and strategies you can use to support development in these two areas.
Learning objectives
- Illustrate the relationship between language and executive function skills as it relates to cognitive development.
- Identify key milestones from birth to 12 months, 12 to 36 months, and 3 to 5 years.
- Explain multilanguage learning and its importance.
- Describe strategies for supporting language and cognitive development.
Tuesday, August 1st from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Social-Emotional Development and Understanding Behavior
Join the webinar to examine how social-emotional development unfolds in the first five years, the role relationships and attachment play in this development, the specifics of empathy development, key factors that influence behavior, and root causes and effective strategies to address behaviors that challenge.
Learning objectives:
- Summarize how social–emotional development unfolds in the first 5 years.
- Describe the role of relationships and attachment in social–emotional development.
- Outline the development of empathy.
- Identify the key factors that influence behavior.
- Explain the root causes of behaviors that are challenging and articulate effective strategies to address them.
Tuesday, August 8th from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Everyday Play
In this webinar discover how play builds children’s capacities in all areas of development, the difference between free and guided play, the stages of social interaction, and ways to promote the core skills children develop through play.
Learning objectives:
- Summarize the development of play and differentiate between free and guided play.
- Identify the stages of play and the stages of social interaction in play.
- Describe the core skills that children develop through play and strategies to promote these skills.
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