FREE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY
for educators or facilitators working in public health, early childhood education and recreation.

Learn to deliver . . .
Workshops on Physical Literacy
as part of the Active Start stage of Canadian Sport For Life

Active Start is the first step towards lifelong physical fitness. Learn to teach the Active Start principles and approaches in this one-day workshop taught by Dr. Colin Higgs.

Wednesday September 8, 2010
from 9:30 am to 4 pm
Sam Jacks (West Ferris) Arena
Upper Auditorium
42 Gertrude St. East, North Bay

Wednesday October 6, 2010
from 9:30 am to 4 pm
Cedarbrook Community Centre
91 Eastpark Blvd
Toronto, Ontario M1H 1C6
Register by Thursday, September 30

To register, visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/922KM5G

Lunch will be provided. If you have any questions please contact smcarthur [at] prontario [dot] org or 416-426-7249.

The event is organized by Parks and Recreation Ontario with financial assistance from the Government of Ontario.

This is a full-day train-the-trainer workshop intended to support professionals including Public Health Workers (Physical Activity Promoters, Healthy Promoters, Family Health Nurses and Family Home Visitors), Sport and Recreation leaders, and Educators to learn how to integrate physical literacy principles and approaches into Early Childhood Education instruction, including:

• Making physical activity fun and a part of daily fitness;
• Skill development to learn proper movement skills such as running, jumping, wheeling, twisting, kicking, throwing and catching;
• Introducing some organized physical activity;
• Exploration of risks and limits in safe environments.
• Training materials will be provided to participants to train others on how to apply physical literacy principles and approaches back in their work environments.
   

About Dr. Colin Higgs
Dr. Higgs is a tenured full professor in the School of Human Kinetics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has done extensive field work in Canada and developing countries and has published and presented widely on both sport development and social development through sport. He is part of a team of experts who have developed the Long-Term Athlete Development Model (LTAD) with specific expertise in the Active Start Stage and the promotion of physical literacy and is a member of the LTAD Expert Group.