A2-045 COURSE
Terrific Toddlers
What will you learn?
Facilitator Alex Weehuizen brings warmth, research, and real-world experience to unpack the essentials of quality toddler education, including:
- Rethinking toddler stereotypes: how shifting your lens can transform the way you see and support the children in your care
- Expectations vs reality: an honest look at what toddler behaviour really tells us, and how to respond with confidence
- The joys and the challenges: navigating the realities of quality teaching and learning in toddler environments
- Practical strategies: tried-and-tested approaches for creating meaningful, engaging learning experiences
- Your role as educator: how to build a supportive environment where toddlers feel safe to explore, connect, and grow
- Curriculum that clicks: designing and implementing a programme that fosters holistic development across all areas
Take a look at what is inside the course:
About the presenter
Alex Weehuizen
Parenting Mentor + Educator
Alex is a certified Postpartum Doula and is a registered Circle of Security Parenting and Classroom Approach facilitator. She recently became a certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner and is currently training as a Holistic Sleep Coach. In 2021, Alex started Precious Beginnings, a 10-week postpartum and parenting program, with over 200 parents completing the course.
Alex believes that nurturing tamariki in their early childhood experiences profoundly shapes the foundational aspects of their growth and development. Whether collaborating with kaiako or engaging with whānau, Alex highlights the significance of offering tamariki attuned, respectful, and responsive care.
Alex is an experienced ECE teacher with over two decades of experience working alongside families. After working as a nanny for 5 years, she completed a Bachelor of Education (ECE) in 2008 and began work as a ECE teacher. After discovering a strong passion for supporting parents on their parenting journey, in 2020 she started working as a Parenting Mentor.
Alex is a certified Postpartum Doula and is a registered Circle of Security Parenting and Classroom Approach facilitator. She recently became a certified Motherhood Studies Practitioner and is currently training as a Holistic Sleep Coach. In 2021, Alex started Precious Beginnings, a 10-week postpartum and parenting program, with over 200 parents completing the course.
Alex believes that nurturing tamariki in their early childhood experiences profoundly shapes the foundational aspects of their growth and development. Whether collaborating with kaiako or engaging with whānau, Alex highlights the significance of offering tamariki attuned, respectful, and responsive care.
What others said about this course:
The ABC approach makes me reflect on why children will have certain behaviour.
— TINA
Allows you to take a step back and see the toddler's communication in a different light.
— KATIE
I loved the words that described what we think of toddlers to what they actually are. A really positive and effective way to discuss toddler behaviours.
— LAUREN
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