PANCO TRAINING & WORKSHOPS

Our Current Programs:

• PANCO Behaviour Training 

• PANCO Behaviour Workshop 

• PANCO Biting Training 

• PANCO Transition Training, and 

• PANCO Program and Documentation Training

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• PANCO Behaviour Training: This interactive training is focused on exploring strategies to implement when responding to children’s behaviour in the ECEC service. This training focuses on the five-step intervention strategies where potential environment and training factors are discussed in detail as the first step. Identifying and considering children’s behaviour as a matter of concern is discussed as the second step, followed by exploring the purpose of this behaviour by children. When and how to respond to children’s behaviour to prevent them is discussed as the fourth step of training. Takeaway messages with practical tools, tips and strategies are explored and planned with priorities as the last step of our behaviour training. 

 

• PANCO Behaviour Workshop: This is the detailed form of PANCO Behaviour Training, which is focused on customized experiences, collaborated problem identification and co-designed strategies with immediate implementation. We focus on the same intervention steps and strategies with interactive and hands-on experiences. PANCO workshop is preferred whilst educators and teachers have been experiencing multiple children in the service with a range of challenging behaviours. Time, resources, and cost are other factors that a service should consider when choosing one of these two programs.

 

• PANCO Biting Training: Biting can be one of the problems experienced by Early Childhood Education and Care professionals while working with children. Biting is more common among young children, especially between 0-3 years of age. The same child biting multiple children or one child targeting the same child with multiple bites can naturally be stressful for educators, teachers, as well as parents. Understanding biting as a common behavioural phenomenon among young children, understanding its reason, and selecting intervention strategies with appropriate implementation have proven helpful. In our training, we discuss the possible reasons for biting and intervention strategies related to the reason. We set an implementational plan together at the final stage of the training.

 

• PANCO Transition Training: Children attending an ECEC service experience multiple transitions in the early stage of life. It includes transitioning from a home environment to a non-parental care setting, from one room to another in an ECEC service, or from one learning experience to another. Some transitions are occasional, whereas others might happen multiple times daily. Children mostly experience difficulty in adjustment because of the change, which causes trouble in emotional regulation, predictability, security, and control maintenance. An ineffective transition between the learning experience and the environment can create higher behaviour problems and disruptions in learning by overstimulating or underestimating children. In our training, we discuss the different kinds of transitions children experience in the early stages of life, the difficulties they experience, and possible strategies to support them. We identify the best possible ways of intervention depending on the educator’s experience and classroom needs.

 

• PANCO Program and Documentation Training: Program and documentation are an inevitable part of an ECEC service, which plays a significant role in its quality. The core purpose of an ECEC service is to support children in their growth and development with quality education and care. Programming in the ECEC sector is planning and implementing curriculum components or learning experiences to promote children’s learning, development and well-being. Documentation is recording children’s involvement in experiences, achievement of learning outcomes, possibility of further extension and its implementation. In this training, we discuss the current programming and documentation practice of the service. We interact and explore the relationship between learning outcomes and experiences, individual differences of the learners, and supporting children to meet these outcomes based on their interests and strengths.