Carla Helton
Early Education Specialist, Ready Region West, United Way of Roanoke Valley
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My name is Carla Helton and I am an Early Education Specialist for Ready Region West at the United Way of Roanoke Valley. I have been in the early education field for 25+ years. I received my Bachelor’s from Radford University in Human Development and Psychology. My passion is educating early educators and ensuring they have the tools and resources available to them to create loving, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environments and interactions for young children via coaching, consulting and training on various early education and child development topics. I am certified Infant, Toddler, and Pre-K CLASS observer, as well as serving as Vice=President for the local Piedmont Chapter of VVAAEYC.
Exploring Learning Potential: Loose Parts and Instructional Support
This session will explore ways to incorporate loose parts play, developed by Simon Nicholson and the CLASS tool. The need to create with no formal materials has benefits for children inside and outside the classroom. Adding loose parts play materials enhances Concept Development; by allowing children to solve problems through analysis and reasoning when choosing and using lose parts materials, as well as enhances creativity, while planning what materials to use, producing their vision, making it come to fruition. By encouraging children, asking open ended questions, mapping actions, scaffolding to help children with solving problems and how the materials they use and build with connect to their real lives; the Instructional Support domain of CLASS will expand learning and understanding all while increasing and help children persist in play.
Carla Helton
Early Education Specialist, Ready Region West, United Way of Roanoke Valley
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