FAQ
Frequently asked questions
This professional development course is for teachers, early childhood teachers, teacher aides, teachers in training, early childhood educators, parent volunteers, and anyone committed to helping improve young children's social-emotional capabilities to maximise their learning.
This teaching tool helps teacher practitioners create a more peaceful environment to deliver their curriculum in the classroom and playground.
This program encourages principles of excellence in Early Childhood by managing challenging behaviours. This teaching tool helps teacher practitioners to create a peaceful environment to enable them to deliver their curriculum in the classroom, playground, friendship groups and community environments. It will encourage children to come and play and learn. This will improve the social-emotional capabilities to maximise the children’s learning capabilities, working towards school readiness. This professional development course and teaching tool provide teachers with the tools, practical resources, and skills to create a strong sense of belonging among participants in their unique kindergarten community.
Understanding of mental health in young children.
How to guide children to make more positive choices.
How to be able to reduce bullying behaviours in different environments (playground, friendship groups and in the classroom.)
To strengthen positive interactions amongst the children and their peers (respectful conversations)
To encourage using words, appropriate language and appropriate voices in class.
To encourage teachers to model to children appropriate ways to interact with friends, teachers and the broader community.
To teach children about what good deeds and good manners look like in different environments.
How to turn behaviours into teachable moments and behaviours into learning opportunities and explicit teaching opportunities.
To empower teachers to set firm boundaries and behaviour etiquette in the classroom and playground.
How to use the LMP Teaching Tool.
To discuss and understand how children adopt behaviours over time.
A face-to-face 2 hours 30 minutes training session.
The resources include a teaching tool also includes instructional manual, and 20 flashcards across five different environments demonstrating children making kind choices and unkind choices.
The teaching tool kit will be posted to each paid participant after the course is completed. Allow 14 days for delivery.
We offer in-house training at your local centre or school on weekdays within 30 km of Brisbane in Queensland.
Alternatively, we can offer the training at a private Shailer Park venue near Logan in Brisbane, Queensland on Saturday at 1.30pm.
​Training is also offered Monday to Friday at 8:00 am, 12.30 pm or 3.30 pm, Saturday 1:30pm via on-line Zoom.
Training is offered Monday to Friday at 8:00 am, 12.30 pm or 3.30 pm for Zoom training.
However, Monday to Friday 8:00 am is the only time scheduled for in-person training at your location within 30 km of Brisbane.
We also offer Saturdays for Zoom training at 1.30 pm or in person at Shailer Park QLD only for in-person.
If you have any other requests for a date and time concerning training, you are welcome to email info@thelittlemindsprogram.training.
Melissa offers the training in person. In that case, Melissa can drive 30 km from her Brisbane location to conduct the in-person training at your childcare facility in Brisbane.
However, if you are interstate or outside of the 30kms, if you wish, Melissa could conduct in-person training at your facility, which would include travel costs.
