Registration opens December 1 at 7 PM
Facilitated by: Tina Geers
You turn for 30 seconds and BAM! The children are climbing the shelves, running over, around, and under things, biting is now a sport, and chaos has erupted in your play space! What happened?! How can you ensure children’s safety when chaos is happening? As early childhood educators, our role is not to simply watch children but to provide a space where they are safe to explore and discover. To do this, we need to ensure we are supervising children with intentionality and purpose. Active supervision is about taking an active role in children’s play while creating a safe space for them to do so. Engaging in active supervision sometimes means we stand back, observe and document children in play, showing our own wonder and curiosity in their explorations. While other times, it requires us to become an active part of the children’s play and remind them of safety parameters and helping them think through problems and encouraging them to solve it! If we want our supervision strategies to be effective, we need to be intentional in our own practices! In this session, we will discuss many ways to engage in active supervision that ensures children are free to play and learn. We will review case studies of difficult situations to supervise and how to overcome these moments of chaos. Sometimes, we need to be wild with them in order to embrace the play!
Objectives:
Define effective supervision and active supervision.
Identify 6 strategies to active supervision.
Identify supervision distractions, challenges and how to overcome them.
Pedagogical Focuses: Engagement - Well-being
Standards of Practice: Standard I: Caring and Responsive Relationships, Standard II: Curriculum and Pedagogy, Standard III: Safety, Health and Well-Being in the Learning Environment
Tina Geers, owner of Inspired Minds ECC Consulting Inc., more importantly, she is a Protector of Play, an Accidental Educator and an Advocate for Early Childhood Educators! She is an early childhood coach and consultant with 20 years of experience as an educator, coach, mentor, facilitator, and pedagogical leader in childcare. Her educational background includes a diploma in Early Learning and Child Care from GPRC, and she is currently completing her BA in Educational Studies in Early Learning at Ontario Tech University. She is also the founder and president of the non-profit organization, Alberta Early Childhood Play Connection Network (AECPCN), a member of the World Forum Working Group on Play, and a member of IPA Canada and CCCF.
Monday, March 23, 2026
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Zoom
Cost
London/Middlesex: Pay What You Can
Elgin/Oxford: Free With Access Code
Registration closes on Friday, March 20 at 12:00 PM
* Ticket types are based on the county you WORK in. Elgin and Oxford participants, use your access code to reveal your ticket type