Name, Title
Circle of Security Classroom
Price
$2900 +GST
Dates
Duration
9 hours (1.5 hours per week for 8 weeks)
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Location
About the Program
Training for early childhood professionals
Early childhood is a critical time for development. In early care settings, children need to develop a wide range of cognitive skills and social/emotional competencies to support their success throughout their school career and into adulthood. In other words, children learn to go to school so that later, they can go to school to learn.
The COSC Approach incorporates a vast body of research in attachment and developmental psychology. Children learn within the context of relationship, so it is not surprising that secure attachment to early care providers has a significant positive effect on children’s school readiness and learning. Attachment theory, in general, and COS, in particular, provide critical organizing principles for the development of teacher-child relationships.
Early care professionals make a commitment to a child’s education, but children benefit when there is a deep commitment to the whole child. The relationship quality with a teacher affects not only academic outcomes, but also behavioral and emotional outcomes now and into the future.
Early care professionals benefit from guidance on how to promote secure attachment relationships with the children in their care. The Circle of Security Classroom (COSC) Approach is designed to enhance teachers' abilities to form secure relationships, and offers critical organizing principles from attachment theory to improve teacher confidence and competence in relationship building. This, in turn, fosters strong secure teacher-student relationships, and ultimately, student learning.
Educators will learn how to:
Create emotionally supportive environments
Manage the needs of many children at once and look for ‘invisible’ children
Conduct judgement-free discussions about behaviour with families
Tailor their approach to reach children they’re finding tricky to connect with.
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About the Instructor
Frances Bilbao
What People Say is the Best Thing About This Training
Frances is an advocate for mothers, an experienced health sector leader, founder, Director and Clinical Psychologist. Frances is the 2024 Women's Agenda Small Business Leader of the Year, a 2024 Cartier Women's Initiative Fellow, the 2024 Telstra Business Awards Championing Health VIC State Winner and 2020-2021 Allied Health Awards Psychologist of the Year for her establishment and operation of Mums Matter Psychology, a leading perinatal psychology practice with a social conscience. Frances values human connection and is a passionate adventurer. Life excites her and she is always seeking out new experiences and knowledge. Whether it's travelling or delving deep into the human mind as a Clinical Psychologist, she thrives on curiosity.
She is the winner of the 2021 Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Clinical Psychology Significant Contribution Award, the 2019 APS Elaine Dignan Award and her team at Mums Matter Psychology, the 2020-2021 Allied Health Awards Adult Team of the Year.
Within Mums Matter Psychology, Frances leads a team of 100+ perinatal mental health clinicians. She is a registered Supervisor for Psychologists and oversees the training of Masters students, interns and Clinical Registrars.
Frances is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) where she is the National Convenor of the Perinatal and Infant Psychology Interest group and Fellow of the College of Clinical Psychologists. She has over 10 years of clinical experience working with clients in the perinatal phase and has authored and presented at various Perinatal Mental Health and Maternal & Child Health conferences. Frances also has extensive experience working on projects across multiple industries in her former career as a management consultant and has a passion for community development.