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 不良研究所 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 books
- 12 Mother Goose rhymes
All trainings listed are in support of Arkansas Minimum Licensing Requirements, Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards, Birth Through 60 Months (CDELS), Arkansas 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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