Hello Provider,
We're excited to announce that our Education team has launched a new virtual training series! Tuesday trainings will be all about Infant and Toddler classroom interactions. Wednesday is Challenging Behaviors and Thursday is PreK classroom interactions. You're more than welcome to register for any of these trainings, however, we highly encourage you to complete an entire training series.
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TUESDAY SERIES:
INFANT - TODDLER CLASS
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April 14, 2020:
Hugs, Love, and Positive Interactions with Infants
This is the first training in a three-session series. This training series will help participants become familiar with both Infant and Toddler CLASS tools. During the first session, we will be discussing how to facilitate positive, effective interactions with infants.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenters:
Antoinette Shaw and RaĂŻna Sajous
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April 21, 2020:
Hugs, Love, and Positive Interactions with Toddlers
This is the second training in a three-session series. This training series will help participants become familiar with both Infant and Toddler CLASS tools. In the second session, we will focus on how to promote and sustain effective interactions with toddlers.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter(s):
Margarita Medina & Mirta De Jesus
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April 28, 2020 -
Let’s Talk: Language in Infant and Toddler Classrooms
This is the third training in a three-session series. This training series will help participants become familiar with both Infant and Toddler CLASS tools. During the third session, we will discuss how to ensure your classroom environment is set-up to foster language development in both infants and toddlers.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter(s):
Ana Avalos-Atkinson & Natacha Herisse
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WEDNESDAY SERIES:
CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS
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April 15, 2020 -
Acting Out: The Reasons Behind Most Challenging Behaviors
All of us teachers have been frustrated, upset and incredibly stressed with challenging behavior in our preschool classrooms. We love our children and want to create a caring, developmentally appropriate environment, but hitting, biting, and running out of the classroom, among other behaviors interfere despite our best intentions. This 3-week training series will help preschool teachers feel so much better once understanding causes of challenging behavior, the impact of trauma on behavior, and strategies to implement to change behavior.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter(s):
Adrienne Gilyard and Carolina White
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April 22, 2020 -
The Impact of Trauma on Behavior and Learning
Come experience “Aha Moments” as you learn how trauma impacts brain development in young children.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter(s)
: Debbie Kay
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April 29, 2020 - Strategies to Minimize Behaviors in the Preschool Classroom
Now it’s time to make a difference! Attending this final session will give you strategies to support all children’s needs in the early childhood setting. You’ll feel better equipped to decrease challenging behavior and maximize engagement and learning.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter(s):
Suwenda Louis
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THURSDAY SERIES:
PRE-K CLASS
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April 16, 2020 -
A CLASS Above the Rest: Learn about Positive Interactions in Pre-K
This is the first training in a three-session series. This training series will help participants become familiar with the Pre-K CLASS tool. During the first session, we will discuss the importance of using developmentally appropriate strategies during classroom activities that take into consideration children’s differing needs, interests, styles, and abilities. We will also explore effective ways to increase vocabulary, enhance quality of feedback, promote advanced language, and link concepts to the real world with intensity and frequency.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter(s):
Julio Maymi & Wendy Gordon
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April 23, 2020 -
Classroom Organization: Creating a Productive Teaching Environment in Pre-K
This is second training in a three-session series. This training series will help participants become familiar with the Pre-K CLASS tool. In the second session, we will demonstrate how to set up the environment to support a variety of instructional strategies and efficiently manage routines so that children have as much time as possible to be involved in learning activities.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Presenter(s):
Aida Brar & Stephanie Templin
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April 30, 2020 -
Let’s Talk: Instructional Support in Pre-K
Presenter(s):
Debra Cruz & Grethel Arroyo
This is the third training in a three-session series. This training series will help participants become familiar with the Pre-K CLASS tool. During the third session, we will discuss how to effectively promote higher-order thinking through the facilitation of frequent conversations, asking open-ended questions, extending children’s responses, and encouraging advanced language use in the classroom.
Time:
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
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