This ten-day intensive course is for students, parents (including expectant), and professionals who want to develop and deepen their understanding of infant development and care.
The course is facilitated in ten interactive, face to face sessions in Orange facilitated by Elena Marouchos.
Course dates:
Facilitator: Elena Marouchos
Course content includes an overview of Magda Gerber’s Educaring® Approach – gross motor, fine motor and social-emotional development of the infant – designing the environment – planning the curriculum – issues in parenting.
This course will benefit anyone who wants to gain a comprehensive understanding of Magda Gerber’s Educaring® Approach to respectful infant care and apply it in their professional and/or personal life. Students include infant and toddler professionals serving a wide variety of communities, including child-care providers and administrators, home visitors, college professors, therapists, nannies, aligned infant health professionals and parents seeking in-depth training.
An overview of the following:
Natural gross motor development
Fine motor development that is driven by the innate urge to play
Social-emotional development
Designing the environment for optimum learning
The art of observation
Understanding parents’ and infants’ needs, expectations, and learning processes
Appropriate “curriculum” for infants and toddlers
10-day intensive in-person course
Date: Monday 11th of August - Friday 22nd of August 2025
Time: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Venue: ORANGE - Venue TBC
"Attending the RIE® course has been a rollercoaster of emotions… I had that mirror put up in front and I didn’t like what I saw. My biggest takeaway will be to suspend judgment, and I’ve been unpacking the meaning of the word ‘arrogance’ and how I bring that to work with me every day.” Bronwyn, Gowrie, Erskineville
“The way I felt two weeks ago has completely changed. These children are individual human beings. I am looking at the children so differently. I can see the details in their little lives. Before doing this RIE® foundations course, I would just see them as the whole person. The whole little person. Oh, yes, they need to be fed, changed or sleep. But I was just meeting their needs. Those routine, caregiving moments are so important. And when I really paid attention and I was listening, I was more attuned to them.” Emma, Orchard ELC
“I had a big mind shift – changing how I perceive myself. How I look at children – and the relationships with the staff, children and families.” Shayla, Gowrie Erskineville
“I think that the message we leave with children from the day they are born, if we treat them with respect and they come to know what respect is, they will hopefully know how to treat others with respect,” Elena Marouchos.
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Are there any Prerequisites?
No Prerequisites are required for this course.
How many students will be in my course?
The class is intentionally kept small, allowing ample opportunity to come to know your fellow students as you learn together throughout the course. Students spent time in large and small group discussions, independent study and observations in the field. At the completion you will receive a certificate.
What happens when I complete my RIE Foundations?
Upon successful completion of RIE Foundations, you will receive a certificate of completion recording the course hours you have earned that you can use in your professional portfolio to demonstrate your ongoing training.
