Aletheia Lee
DPhil, RIE® Associate
SUSS Summer Sessions
Career Readiness:
Career Catalyst Series
Discipline
Working with Partnership
and Limits That Make Sense
Image from Walking Together (2023)
By Elder Albert D. Marshall, Louise Zimanyi, and Emily Kewageshig
PART 1 & 2:
25 May 2024 Saturday 9am – 4pm SUSS Blk C 5.14/15
PART 1:
8 June 2024 Saturday 9am – 12pm SUSS Blk C 5.14/15
PART 2:
15 June 2024 Saturday 9am – 12pm SUSS Blk C 5.14/15
We all wish to work with easy children. We want them to follow our plan, hear what we have to say, cooperate with our requests, help the day go smoothly our way.
What is your approach to discipline? Is it about teaching children how to behave, or controlling the children’s behaviour? If it’s about teaching, what exactly are we teaching?
This masterclass refines your toolkit for discipline situations in the classroom and in life. Gain insights and practical tips toward structure, cooperation, and conflict resolution. Become more proactive than reactive in difficult moments, staying in control of yourself and in charge of the children.
-
Ask new questions and build new partnerships
-
Navigate situations of conflict and developmental opposition
-
Find your assertive voice and language
-
Strengthen regulatory and relational strategies
Open to all SUSS students, alumni, and industry partners. As an SUSS Learning Prospectus workshop with Student Success Centre, you will receive a certificate of participation upon attendance.
Career Readiness:
Career Catalyst Series
Conversations with Kids
How to listen and talk with young children
22 June 2024 Saturday
9am – 4pm | SUSS Blk C 5.14/15
Young children can talk and can understand language, but can they have meaningful conversations? They sure can.
Conversation is a necessary ingredient for learning and thriving with others. Unfortunately, many lose touch with conversational skills, not because of shyness, but due to messages that shut down communication.
This is a masterclass in how to converse. Hone skills of tuning in, listening, and articulating thought. Enjoy and benefit daily from lively, thoughtful conversations!
-
Cultivate your craft of conversing
-
Learn and apply different listening techniques
-
Discover dialogues with all ages: infants, toddlers, preschoolers, youths, and adults
-
Develop new habits of communication
Open to all SUSS students, alumni, and industry partners. As an SUSS Learning Prospectus workshop with Student Success Centre, you will receive a certificate of participation upon attendance.
29 May 2024 Wednesday
I Play Therefore I Am
10am – 5pm | SUSS C 3.16
Children know the joy of play, but as we grow older, do we still savour the exuberance and benefits of playful activities?
Play invigorates, restores, enhances.. it even makes us more productive with any kind of work!
Step outside the pedagogies of play, "playful learning", "purposeful play" etc. If you work with children, knowing how to be playful makes us significantly better at what we do.
This masterclass is for you to connect with playfulness in a personal way. What kind of play appeals to you? What kind of player are you? Find out and figure out how you might enjoy more play in your own life!
-
Discover your play personality
-
Delight in the paradoxes and varieties of play
-
Appreciate what elevates and what interferes with play
-
Enjoy a game or two - it's play day!
5, 12, 19 June 2024
2pm – 5pm | SUSS C 3.16
8, 15 May 2024
Wednesdays with Aletheia
Drink tea
Chit chat
Sing song
Come spend informal afternoons together to relax, chat, bond, experience, reflect, ask questions, distill thoughts, clarify concepts, or address other needs you have.
Experiential learning and practice-oriented professional skills, with elements of discovery, spontaneity, playfulness, reflection, and sincere good fun meeting as a group!
No preparation is needed for the session. Just get good rest, come expecting the unexpected, and bring a pen you like to write with.