Early Childhood Education Trainings
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Ronnette Haynes
- Coaching & Outreach Coordinator
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- 479-788-7917
- Echols 110-B
These FREE training courses are funded through grants awarded by the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education. For more information or to schedule a training, call the ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Early Childhood Preschool Program at 479-788-7249 or 479-788-7605.
All How To trainings are offered in a face-to-face setting only.
- Planning and conducting whole group time
- Planning and conducting small group time
- Telling stories with visuals
- Choosing developmentally appropriate books
- Creating materials
- Using materials to increase learning
- Using music and movement with different age groups
- Setting up a music center
- Portfolio organization
- Purpose of portfolios
- Benefits of a discovery center
- Setting up a discovery center
- Developmentally appropriate alphabet activity materials
- Developmentally appropriate alphabet activities
- Promoting creativity in the classroom
- Setting up the art center
- Importance of Prop Boxes
- How to build prop boxes
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What is sensory play?
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Sensory play activities
- Identify the characteristics of an early childhood professional
- Examines ethical responsibilities to children, families, and colleagues
- Explores relationships, daily exchanges, and written and verbal communication with families
- Develops family program connections and engagement
- Physical arrangement of the environment
- Materials and equipment in the environment
- Social and emotional environment
- Importance of teamwork in an early care and education program
- Strategies that support teamwork
- Strategies for building relationships
- Building resilience in children
- Daily classroom schedule and routines
- Daily experiences in each classroom (curriculum)
- Weekly activity plan sheets
- Children’s portfolios
- Daily transitions for all children (infants, toddlers, preschool)
- Successful transitions for preschool children
- When children transition into and out of a classroom or preschool program
- Importance of children and the outdoor environment
- Safety in the outdoor environment
- Outdoor activities
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Collection of patterns that may be used as visuals for storytelling or story retelling
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37 patterns for children’s books
- 12 Mother Goose rhymes
All trainings listed are in support of ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Minimum Licensing Requirements, ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Child Development and Early Learning Standards, Birth Through 60 Months (CDELS), ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Workforce Knowledge and Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals, Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale (ITERS), Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS), and NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct.
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