This workshop may be taken for training hours or for college credit. Cost is $20 for 8 training hours or $55 for college credit with completion of follow-up assignments.

How does a teacher create balance in the classroom with many colorful children with expressive behaviors, and desires to learn everything? We will look at these budding geniuses and recognize how play is work for children under 8 years. These are the “wonder” years and integration of movement promotes learning.

- You will learn the Central Nervous System’s Pyramid to Academic Learning.

- You will recognize how emotions that student’s associate with a learning experience (not content) become part of the memory system.

- You will develop an understanding of how Sensory Motor Preferences can affect the foundation of learning, and learn ways to assist your young developers meet their sensory needs in the 8 sensory systems.

- We will see how sensory needs are different, individual and influenced by the environment.

- You will be provided an understanding of the sensitivities of children dealing with Sensory Processing Disorder and given the Top 10 Classroom Tips to utilize immediately.

Trainer DD Meeks has been working as an Occupational Therapist and Artist/Educator for over 33 years with people of all ages. She has worked in the Rogue Valley for the last 18 years, prior to this she was at Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital, Children's Hospital at Stanford, the Veterans's Administration Medical Center, and the Center for Attitudinal Healing, all in the San Francisco Bay area. DD is a published author and has provided trainings in many areas, ranging from Therapeutic Uses of Art and Recreation to Seating and Mobility for the Disabled to Sand Tray - Jungian Approach.