3.2 -Experiences of Professional Development

One professional development workshop which I attended that challenged my thinking and helped me to improve my practice was one that I attended in 2019 called Music, Movement and Early Childhood. I teach 3- and 4-year-old children and this workshop was interactive and helped me to develop new ideas and strategies that I incorporated in the classroom. I saw the important role that music played in the language development of children and how it improved their listening skills. The children in my class, at the time, loved making animal sounds and making animal movements and music and movement helped the children who were having a difficult time with separation from their parents in the morning get comfortable and laugh within their groups, helping them to socialize and be comfortable in the school environment. This is just to name a few. Since then, I have utilized many more strategies and had many more wonderful experiences with them.