Course series

Classroom Programming Essentials

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Program Description

The Classroom Programming Essentials Package provides early years professionals with the foundational knowledge and practical strategies needed to create engaging, organized, responsive, and developmentally appropriate learning experiences. 

This package brings together four essential workshops that explore curriculum planning, circle time, routines and transitions, classroom expectations, and responsive behaviour guidance. Participants will learn how thoughtful planning, observation, environmental organization, teamwork, and reflective practice work together to support children’s participation, learning, behaviour, independence, and overall well-being. 

What Participants Will Gain

By completing this package, participants will be better prepared to: 
  • Plan meaningful, responsive, and play-based learning experiences.  
  • Support children’s development across the five developmental domains.  
  • Use observations, children’s interests, and emerging skills to guide programming decisions.  
  • Facilitate flexible and developmentally appropriate circle-time experiences.  
  • Encourage children’s communication, movement, participation, and sense of belonging.  
  • Create predictable routines and support smoother daily transitions.  
  • Reduce unnecessary waiting and keep children meaningfully engaged.  
  • Organize materials, environments, and small-group experiences intentionally.  
  • Apply responsive and relationship-based behaviour-guidance strategies.  
  • Use the OPAR approach to strengthen professional decision-making and reflective practice.  

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