Foundations & Self-Awareness of Cognitive Development

New!
This training is a new APOST offering, as it's part of the Social & Emotional Learning Youth Work Methods Workshops, a recently development series, from The Forum for Youth Investment | The Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality (https://forumfyi.org/weikartcenter/workshops/).

As programs work to facilitate social-emotional (SEL) skill building for young people, youth workers must think about their readiness to facilitate cognitive skill building with young people. Cognitive skills are the core skills the brain uses to think, learn, remember, problem-solve and pay attention. Cognitive development is the continuing development of those skills from birth through adulthood.

In this introspective workshop, youth workers will take time to identify their own strengths, needs, interests, and constraints related to learning and cognitive development. Additionally, participants will strengthen their understanding of how their background, experiences, privilege, bias, and/or discrimination have affected their attitudes toward learning and their expectation about other’s learning.

Participants will leave this session with practical skills that can be implemented immediately to support youth initiative and problem-solving.
Workshop Facilitator
Spencer Scott
Restorative Practice Coordinator, Just Discipline Project
University of Pittsburgh | School of Social Work | Center on Race and Social Problems

Registration is open for this event until it fills up or until two days before the workshop.

This workshop is limited to 15 participants. We will have a waiting list that we'll use to both fill spots that open up and also help plan our future workshop topic schedule.

Each participant will be provided with a guidebook to use during the training and keep and will also receive a certificate of completion via email afterwards.

This workshop will take place at CoLab18, inside Nova Place at 100 South Commons, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (on the Northside).

There is an entrance to the Nova Place Concourse at the corner of South Commons and Federal Street, across from the Post Office. There is an accessible ramp at this entrance.

If you come by car and park in the garage, there are elevators in the garage.

More details about this location, including a map, and transportation are in the FAQ below.

Boxed lunches will be provided to registered attendees at the end of the workshop. Folks are welcome to take their lunches to go or to continue conversation with one another over lunch in the workshop space.

Boxed lunches contain: a sandwich or wrap, chips or pretzels, a side salad, cookie, whole piece of fruit, a drink, condiments and utensils.

When you register for the workshop, you will be asked to select from a list of sandwiches & wraps options (turkey, ham, roast beef, tuna salad, chicken salad, Italian and veggie).

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

CoLab18 in Nova Place, 100 South Commons, Pittsburgh, United States