Delivered Online
Duration
1.5 hours
Cost $60.00
Rhythm and movement can help young children manage self-regulation of their emotions, attention and behaviour. Approximately 30% of young children have problems with self-regulation, which can effect learning and their transition to school. Educators and teachers of young children can learn how to use rhythm and movement activities to positively support the development of self-regulation and address underlying brain connections in young children.
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By the end of this self-paced online course, you will be able to lead 11 simple, low-resource, rhythmic movement activities designed to enhance self-regulation skills in young children if used regularly. Resources you will download include 8 audio tracks, four sets of visual cards, and the activity booklet.
You will also be able to download a certificate of attainment for 1.5 hours of CPD.
This course is a taster of the full RAMSR curriculum which you can access by taking the RAMSR module course, which includes 8 weeks of RAMSR session plans including 24 RAMSR activities at a base level and more than 30 extension activities, 28 audio tracks, and 120-page RAMSR resource folder.
This online course is suitable for any educator or practitioner working with children aged 3 to 6 years in any group setting.
Associate Professor Kate Williams is a Principal Research Fellow [ARC DECRA funded] and Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and leader of the QUT Centre for Child & Family Studies. Her research focuses on children’s development of self-regulation and the parenting, educational, and intervention contexts that support such, along with the developmental outcomes associated with children’s self-regulatory functioning. This includes children’s regulation of sleep, attention, emotion, and behaviour. Kate primarily uses structural equation modelling and large longitudinal datasets such as the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to achieve her research aims. Kate is also an interventionist, having designed and tested several early childhood and parenting interventions.
In late 2019 Kate was awarded the only ARC DECRA fellow for Education in that year. In this project she is currently leading a randomized control trial of a group self-regulation intervention for kindergartens in disadvantaged communities. Kate has used her background as a paediatric Registered Music Therapist to design the intervention that capitalizes on the neuropsychological benefits of rhythmic movement to stimulate outcomes. Kate has extensive project expansion management skills having taken a small Federally funded early intervention program from a South-East Queensland to National expansion as National Director for a not for profit organisation in 2005.
View Kate’s publications hereThis online course will cover:
Kate, thank you for such a fantastic resource! So much thought has gone into creating this confidence-building and education enhancing resource. You have beautifully captured so much. The videos, the text, the activity summaries and printable resources with stream-able tracks - love it! I LOVE the activity summary - love the visual and verbal cues you've included. Thank you!
This course will be held entirely online, via Blackboard, QUT's online learning platform. This course is self-paced, with students granted unlimited access to online learning materials.
You can start the course at any time. Access will be granted within 1 business day.
You’ll be issued a certificate of attainment for 1.5 hours of CPD.
$60.00 (including GST)
*no further discounts apply
RAMSR (Rhythm and Movement for Self-Regulation) is a program for young children that aims to support their attentional and emotional regulation skills, as well as mental flexibility, inhibition, and working memory (the executive functions).
The program was first designed and piloted in 2016 by Associate Professor Kate Williams (Queensland University of Technology) and her music therapy and early childhood music education colleagues.
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