Virtual Lab School

Explore your ideas about characteristics you value in effective leaders

Practice understanding the differences between acceptable guidance, practices that violate guidance and touch policies, and practices that are potential indications of abuse and neglect

Using your child development knowledge, practice reframing unrealistic expectations for children's behavior into realistic ones

Reflect on effective versus ineffective communication with the families in your program

Think about the ways you communicate throughout your daily routines and reflect on how your communication skills have developed

Engage school-age children in the visual arts by planning an activity

Think about process- and product-oriented experiences and the importance of the process of art.

Reflect on your own creativity and how you can apply it in a school-age environment

Plan ahead to ensure your self-care practices are comprehensive to include your physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and professional life

Reflect on spaces from your childhood that instilled a sense of self as you plan to carry attributes of those environments into your classroom