{"id":661,"date":"2020-09-01T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/?p=661"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:06:45","slug":"back-to-work-tips-for-early-childhood-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/back-to-work-tips-for-early-childhood-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to work \u2013 tips for early childhood educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Returning to work will have its challenges especially for teachers, child care workers and early childhood educators.\u00a0 Here are some tips to support you with this period:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teachers have an innate desire to always be supportive of their students.\u00a0 Self care is paramount.\u00a0 Find ways that energize and calm you.\u00a0 Know what you can do from home and what you can do at work. For example, breathing exercises are very relaxing and rejuvenating and can be done anywhere \u2013 you might choose to include your students in some of your calming exercises.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prepare yourself for the changes in your routines and classroom management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pay particular attention to each individual child\u2019s needs.\u00a0 This will help you understand and plan better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SHOW SHOW AND SHOW \u2013 Show the children what they need to do.\u00a0 Telling and discussing can be very abstract.\u00a0 Showing is concrete!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have discussions with the children and especially have them do art around their emotions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visuals are a great way to have students understand expectations.\u00a0 Be creative in discussing Covid 19 related matters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Most importantly \u2013 remember:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>We are in this together and how we make a difference in each child\u2019s life \u2013 every single day!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to work will have its challenges especially for teachers, child care workers and early childhood educators.\u00a0 Here are some tips to support you with this period: Teachers have an innate desire to always be supportive of their students.\u00a0 Self care is paramount.\u00a0 Find ways that energize and calm you.\u00a0 Know what you can do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montessorilearning.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}