Why Can’t Children Sit Still?
Science of Movement and Nature to Enhance Performance
The Goal
Why Can’t Children Sit Still raises awareness about the importance of movement, play, and nature in the everyday lives of our children and home and school, and how sensory and motor components found in movement, play, and nature actually promote not only physical and mental health, but also attention and learning ability in children.
Reconnect Webinars is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development approval #6106.
This webinar is offered at 3.5 CEUs at intermediate education level for OT service delivery, professional issues and foundational knowledge categories.
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Learning Outcomes
- Identify critical neurobiological factors important for attention and learning ability.
- Evaluate current research on the impact of movement, play and nature on attention and learning.
- Recognize how dwindling resources and fear of litigation limit achieving critical factors for development and learning.
- Apply movement and nature initiatives in school, home and community to enhance attention and learning.
Handouts
- Development and Nature Directives
- Schools Operating Safely – Child Behavior Management Policy/Procedures
- Building Foundations/Virtual Futures Diagrams Operating Safely – Child Behavior Management Policy/Procedures
Who should buy and watch Webinar?
Cris Rowan, BScOT, BScBi, SIPT
An outspoken critic on the impact of technology on human development, behavior, and productivity
Webinar creator Cris Rowan, is passionate about changing the ways in which humans use and interact with technology. Cris has developed a concept termed Balanced Technology Management (BTM) where humans strive to manage balance between healthy activity and technology.
She works globally and locally and has cross culture relevance from indigenous and developing communities. Cris is a visionary, who clearly sees that the ways in which humans are using technology are not sustainable, and the time to act is now. Activist, advocate, author, and prolific speaker, Cris helps people move from the virtual, back into the real world.
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Why Can’t Children Sit Still
Using movement and nature to enhance attention and learning.