Teacher Training & Workshops

Wendy offers teacher training and workshops customized to meet the needs of individual settings and teachers. Content, presentation style and activities are adjusted to address the age levels being served at your site as well as the needs identified by your staff.

Popular Workshop Topics

Preschool Outdoors

This workshop invites participants to explore questions such as why the outdoors is such an important space for children, how outdoor learning experiences support learning goals for children and the role teachers play in their work with children in outdoor learning environments.

Grab Your Camera!

This workshop explores the use of photo documentation in the play yard as a vehicle for formative evaluation by teachers of their teaching, learning, and site design, leading to improvement in the quality of each child's (and each teacher's!) learning experience in the out-of-doors.

Taking Your Curriculum Outside

Experience and play in the outdoors are vital to the well-being, health and development of children of all ages.  Children learn by doing. This workshop provides an overview of ways to integrate outdoor learning and develop activities that support your curricular goals. Each workshop is site-specific and custom designed to explore the resources available at your site and for your teachers. 

The Hidden Curriculum

This workshop looks carefully at space design, routines, transitions, guidelines and processes for conflict resolution and community-building as the essential framework and building blocks for successful, authentic learning experiences for children.