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The Idea

Yoga in Early Years

The Reason

I attended Parenting Workshop

Rationale

  • Our preschool is a flat structure, as we are a Charity group with trustees, committee, parents, staff and children
  • I will discuss my idea to introduce the topic of innovation and change into our preschool
  • I will be an active listener and ask all staff their opinions and ideas and what they think
  • I will consider their opinions and offer the staff time to consider my new idea of introducing
  • I will explain my rationale and why I think we must implement our new idea with our children
  • I will ensure that I am communicating well with all staff, committee, parents and children
  • I hope this new idea will have a positive impact on all the children, parents, staff and committee
  • I have ensured all staff have an awareness of United Nations Charter Rights of the Child
  • I have considered this piece of documentation on Health & Safety, Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies and Procedures

I attended a workshop on Parenting, and the speaker who carried out the research discussed the Vagus Nerve is one of the Cranial Nerves that connects the brain to the body, digestive tract, respiration and heart rate functioning

The Vagus Nerve delivers information from the gut to the brain. Decreases inflammation, lowers heart rate and blood pressure. It helps people recover from stressful and scary situations

Low Vagal Tone is

a stressed person

Vagal Tone

Increasing Vagal Tone helps significantly with fear management

Mentor

I will mentor and explain to practitioners in our setting about my aims and objectives for the children

The Idea

  • I am motivated to give Yoga a go to enhance our Early Year’s experience
  • I feel we are interested as a group of practitioners to develop new skills to help our children
  • An activity we could use both indoors and outdoors
  • I am willing to learn new strategies to implement in our setting
  • I identified behaviour which required effective management
  • I hope to identify strategies within Yoga to deal with behaviour as a result of change
  • Based on previous research, I aim to simplify and improve our practice of personal, social and emotional well-being

Robbins and Callan, 2010

Research

Children will benefit from Yoga and Mindfulness

Research shows the most effective way to stimulate the Vagus Nerve is through

YOGA

I will ensure that everyone is on

board before I pursue my

Innovation and Change

I will discuss my idea with staff to introduce the topic of innovation and change into our preschool

Innovation & Change

I learned about Mindfulness at Cluster training in March 2019

I wanted to follow-up on the idea to introduce mindfulness and yoga to our children in preschool, based on previous experience

An activity we could use both indoors and outdoors

I was motivated to give it a go to enhance our Early Year’s experience

I felt we were interested as a group of practitioners to develop new skills to help our children

I am willing to learn new strategies to implement in our setting

I identified behaviour which required effective management

I hope to identify strategies to deal with behaviour as a result of change

Based on previous research, I aim to simplify and improve our practice of personal, social and emotional well-being

Robbins and Callan, 2010

Starfish breathing

During Staff training in March 2019, which involved Mindfulness training,

we learned a new technique

I acknowledged how our children loved the Starfish Breathing technique and

it is so simple to share

Impact

Use your right hand

Starfish Breathing

Hold your

left hand

up

Simple Technique

Breathing in as you trace

up and breathing out as

you trace downwards

Use your pointer finger on one hand to trace around the outside of your other hand

Positive Impact of Starfish Breathing

  • Inhaling breaths of oxygen into organs and exhaling carbon dioxide is essential to our body
  • We hope to improve our children's breathing skills
  • This has a calming effect on mind and body

Positive impact

Yoga in children

means union of body and mind

Quote from Dr Kate Bartram-Brown

“Our results have gone from strength to strength and Mini Me won’t sit still. We are always moving forward, we are always learning, and always ready to accommodate the next situation. No two children are the same so we have to make sure our products and programs teach each child in their own way. We believe we have a program that ensures this, as we empower the children, we allow them to create, take charge, have fun and learn whilst keeping physically fit.”

Mini Me Yoga

Mini Me Yoga

Introducing mini me yoga

To children to improve their well-being

Positive children creating a positive world

Currently Mini Me Yoga 15 minutes a day programme for children is being taught to teachers and parents across the globe

I would like to share some information on Mini Me Yoga and why I felt it will have an impact on our children’s well being

After selling her previous business, Kate decided that she would take some time out, indulge in her love of yoga and write children’s self-help books

Dr Kate Bartram-Brown founded Mini-Me Yoga when she noticed that positive thinking methods that adults were learning weren’t being taught to children

Using her background in film and TV, business and healing, she set about creating a world in which children and grown-ups alike could have fun together

Photos mini me yoga

Photos Mini Me Yoga

The Change

We held a class for children

Feedback from children, staff

and parents was positive

I attended a foundation workshop

I received a certificate of attendance

I implemented yoga into early year’s plans

My change was influenced by small day to day change e.g. 5 to 10 minutes per day, (incremental)

I attended a foundation workshop which outlined a 7 steps of Mini Me yoga well-being programme

I intend to learn 14 new poses within Mini Me yoga magick foundation cards, (innovative)

I will simplify the images for the children

I will use small toy animals e.g. giraffe, lion, dolphin, dog, eagle, snake, tree and dragon to symbolise the dragon breath which we love to use randomly throughout our play

Lewin’s Change model

In order to introduce a change it is frozen initially

The change has to change, therefore unfreeze it

Stop it and change the process

Refreeze it with change implemented

The Change

Political, ecomonic, social, technological, legal, environmental, competitors

Strategies I will discuss with staff

Teams and motivation

Tips to manage change

Belbin's Team Role Analysis showed

I am a team worker, I am supportive, and non-competitive

I will use my skills to prepare staff

I will discuss and let them know the plan

I will involve staff in the process and be honest and flexible

I will have frequent formal and informal meetings to enhance communication

I will tune into other’s ideas, views and feelings, I hope to manage conflict

I will listen attentively and respect feelings

De Bonos thinking hats

I will deal with barriers to innovation and resistance to change

Pestle Analysis

External and Internal Forces of Change

There are two ends of the change spectrum. One end being change in response to external stimuli. The other being calmer internally motivated change

In the current political and social climate, the ability to lead the change is expected as change is a recurrent theme in the life of education

The pedagogic understanding which supports development changes in children can be used to inform leadership and approaches to managing change

(Fullan 2004, cited in Alison & Callan 2010)

Implementation Process

Sustain, Explore, Prepare, Deliver

Implement

Timeline

Yoga & Mindfulness

Parenting anxious teenagers

training workshop mini me yoga

2019

Mindfulness

mini me yoga session with children

07.11.19

29.03.19

09.11.19

24.09.19

We experienced an ‘Implementation dip’ as there was a change in staffing

Barriers

Innovation involves change of behaviour and I felt I could introduce this when I was ‘Acting Leader’

I felt I wanted to be prepared to become an effective leader to support the emotional well-being and skills in developing all our staff. (Fullan (2004) )

I felt the staff wanted me to listen to them, to provide physical, emotional and social needs of the organisation. As a change was imminent, I felt I wanted to gain the trust from the staff and to give them time, tools and to support them to share the vision I have to implement new strategies to improve the children’s learning and behaviour

SWOT Analysis

  • I will Identify my Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats for innovation
  • I developed a timeline
  • I will outline strategies I plan to use with staff
  • I will share my presentation with staff
  • I will discuss Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence model (2002)

SWOT Analysis

I will adapt a

“can do”

positive attitude

I will be an optimistic leader

Goleman’s emotional intelligence model (2002)

I aim to be an emotionally intelligent Acting Leader

I will refer to the visual aids

Goleman’s emotional intelligence model (2002)

My Challenge is to work as a team

To listen to other’s feelings

Manage my emotions, Manage other emotions

Leadership & Management

I will lead the change

I will introduce the new idea

I will follow through with yoga

I will include all staff

I will enjoy the change

I will ensure it is gradual

I will make the yoga a playful activity

I will develop new plans to provide variety during yoga session

I will use areas of Mini Me yoga which is suitable for 3-4 year olds

I will ensure child is comfortable with Yoga

I will ensure child has choice to participate

Type of Leader

I will discuss the procedure to follow with Leader/Committee

I will discuss cost for 15 minute session with committee - £25

I will discuss cost of Foundation Workshop with committee - £50

I will include a new Policy to include Yoga and Mindfulness on our planning and on social media – Facebook and Twitter

I will create a new website to promote our setting, outlining our new innovative ideas

I will adhere to all GDPR and legal responsibilities

I will control and oversee performance alongside committee

Kotter(1990)

Autocratic – decisions are taken without consulting with others

Democratic – involves people in the decision making

Consultative – a combination of autocratic and democratic style

Laissez-Faire – minimum involvement in the decision making

I hope to be DEMOCRATIC or a COMBINATION of above

I aim to empower staff to become part of decision making by allowing all staff to be included

Styles of Leadership & Management

Characteristic of an Early Year’s Manager

References

Belbin, R.M (1997) Changing the Way We Work Oxford: Heinemann

Daly et al (2004) Early years Management in Practice Oxford: Heinemann

Fullan (2004) cited Alison & Callan (2010)

King, N. Anderson. (1995) Innovation and Change in Organisations London: Routledge

Kotter, J.P. (1990) A force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management New York: Free Press

Moyles, J. (2006) Effective Leadership and Management in Early Years Maidenhead: Open University Press

O’Sullivan, J. 2010 Leadership Skills in the Early years Making a Difference London: Continuum

Robins, A. Callan, S (2010) Managing Early Years Settings London: Sage

Whalley, M. E. (2011) Leading Practice in Early Years Settings Exeter: Learning Matters

Beckhard's Change Model

De Bonos, E., (1985), Thinking Hats, New York, Little Brown & Company

Lewin's Model of Change

Diamond, A. (2012) Activities and Programs that Improve Children's Executive Functions

Wolff, K., Staff, A. (2019) Investigating Early Childhood Teachers' Perceptions of a Preschool Yoga Program

Beckhard's Change Model

Dr Kate Bartram-Brown, ELCC & Community

Development, Calgary, Canada, minimeyoga.com, 24.11.19

References

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