Our Toddler Approach
Educating toddlers
Our Toddler Approach
At Wonderschool, our approach to educating toddlers is focused on three main pillars:
- Thoughtfully curated environments that enable children to build their autonomy and to support their behaviours, interests, and needs.
- Building close relationships with Educators and their peers.
- Emotional guidance to support toddlers to develop emotional awareness and to manage their behaviours and connect with and understand their underlying feelings.
Environments
Our early learning centre environments are thoughtfully curated to enable children to build their autonomy and to support their behaviours, interests and needs.
The toddler rooms offer challenges with consistency for our 2-3-year-olds. It is important for toddlers to know where they can find the resources in their space and be able to revisit their favourite activities and work each time they attend the childcare service. We structure the room to create small intimate play areas in the larger space so children can have a sense of seclusion and independence whilst engaging in play but they can be thoughtfully observed by our Educators.
Respectful Relationships
At Wonderschool early learning centres, toddlers are supported in building close relationships with our Educators and their peers. We always ensure that we are laying the foundations for a deep understanding of respecting other people’s personal space and boundaries and supporting toddlers to navigate complex interpersonal relationships.
We speak to children in a respectful way and role model positive interactions with our colleagues and other children to create a space of mutual respect and appreciation.
Emotional Guidance
We use the techniques of emotion coaching to support toddlers to develop emotional awareness and to manage their behaviours and connect with and understand the underlying feelings.
Our Educators make sure they acknowledge a child’s feelings and discuss them so that children begin to be able to name their feelings, think about how to manage them, and work with Educators to develop strategies to learn skills to self-regulate. We engage children by thinking about how to interact with those around them in a respectful way and to become aware of themselves in the context of our Wonderschool community as well as the wider Canberra community.
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