The Child's Developing Mind
The Child's Developing Mind
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Duration: 1 Day 09:00 - 16:30
+ E-Learning Module
Free for apprentices
£60+vat for all other nursery employees.
Course Overview
Aims
To provide students
- with a basic understanding of the functions of the conscious and subconscious minds, as they apply to young children
- With an understanding of negative programming and how that can affect children later in life
- With opportunities to develop resources / tools to support child safety in the road environment
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify the functions of the conscious and subconscious minds
- Understand the psychological and physiological limitations of young children
- Develop effective techniques to support a child’s basic understanding of safe practices in the road/traffic environment
- Use positive programming techniques to reduce the risk of unintended consequences
Conscious Mind
- Estimated that the conscious mind represents around 10-15% of the mind
- Controlled by the left side of the brain
- Applies Logic
- Always analyses and criticises
- Manages short term memories
- Its language is verbal
- Has a sense of humour
- It acts a guard to the subconscious!
Subconscious Mind
- Estimated that the subconscious represents around 80-85% of the mind
- Controlled by the right side of the brain
- Cannot analyse or criticise
- Takes every piece of information literally
- Cannot distinguish between pretend and real
- Has no sense of humour
- Its language is imagination (visual/Creativity)
- Its main function is to protect the owner
- It runs all programmes that it considers protective (life support)
- Never forgets
- Lives in the now with no sense of time
Course Pricing
Apprentices
Free
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12-hour inc e-learning module
and practical training -
For all Eden Apprentices.
Existing customers
£
60
+VAT
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12-hour inc e-learning module
and practical training -
For existing Eden customers, that aren't apprentices.
New customers
£
90
+VAT
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12-hour inc e-learning module
and practical training -
For new Eden customers.
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