Play to Grow Online Course
With more than 25 years of experience as a practicing play therapist, Christian’s goal is to share the skills he’s utilized as a play therapist with parents and teachers to support their children’s emotional development. Play to Grow does exactly that!
Through your subscription to Play to Grow, you will help your preschool age children:
Follow a daily routine, successfully navigate transitions and change, and receive clearly communicated expectations through the use of colorful, child-friendly visuals illustrated by a professional artist.
Express themselves fully through play.
Identify, express, and manage strong feelings.
Be more confident and independent.
Learn personal accountability through choices and natural consequences.
Become more autonomous, independent, and resilient.
Increase learning readiness.
What’s Included?
eBook
Universal Play Therapy is a guide intended teachers and caregivers of young children that incorporates evidence-based strategies, presented in a user-friendly framework, to support children’s social-emotional learning.
Video Demonstrations
The Play to Grow Course includes dozens of videos demonstrating the play skills in action.
Visually Represented Rules
The Play to Grow Course includes 12 visually represented editable and printable rules for the classroom and home.
Play to Grow Online Community
The Play to Grow Community is comprised of more than 1,000 Early Childhood Educators and Caregivers. Members can post questions, share their experiences, and engage each other in a common goal: support the young children in their lives!
10 Lessons
10 clear, concise lessons serve as your guide to supporting children in three modules:
1. Implementing a structured daily routine
2. Establishing clear expectations for behavior
3. Play
Visually Represented Activities
The use of visuals help children follow their routine and anticipate and cope with change. The Play to Grow Course includes 116 visually represented editable and printable activities.
Play Skills Posters
Five colorful, printable posters are included that can serve as visual reminders of each play skill detailed in Play to Grow.
Online Support
Course membership includes weekly live meetings facilitated personally by Christian.
More About The Course
The Play to Grow Course contains 10 lessons that will guide you through the process of supporting your student or child's social-emotional learning through three essential strategies; creating a structured daily routine, establishing clear expectations for behavior while reinforcing desired behavior through descriptive praise, and how to engage children in play using a set of skills that promotes expression, emotional coping skills, and resiliency.
The Play to Grow Course also includes more than 120 editable and printable activities and rules, printable posters for each play skill, session notes for self-assessment and data collection, and dozens of videos demonstrating the play skills in action.
A one-year course subscription is included in your purchase.