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Workshop Series:
Many workshops offered are part of an ongoing series of trainings. Some
classes you can pick and choose, some must be taken in order. Please
note session requirements for each of these workshops.
In addition to the Projects and
Initiatives and Individual
Workshops, the following are workshop series currently
offered:
* The Six Keys
(children's mental health)
* Good Talking With You
(language)
* The Whole Child
(developmental)
* The Power of
Positive Communication (communication)
* Creative
Curriculum (curriculum, environment, play related)
* Parenting Counts:
Focus on Early Learning
* Dollars & Sense
(business)
* Many Right Ways
(environment)
TKW Consulting can also offer customized training.
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The Six Keys:
Strategies for Promoting Children’s Mental Health in Early Childhood
Programs
provides support to early childhood practitioners through training and
educational opportunities around the emotional development of children.
It is a holistic approach that helps practitioners examine their role in
children's mental health, as well as environment, temperament, risk factors,
and resilience.
This course consists of a series of
seven 2-4 hour workshops, which include theories of emotional development,
resilience, self-regulation, temperament, and many useful strategies for the
early childhood setting. Training is appropriate for child care, Head Start,
special education, Learning Readiness, and early childhood providers and
educators.
1. Why All the Fuss About a Child's Emotional
Development?
2. How Do We Give Children a Strong Start?
3. Why Do Children Act the Way They Do?
4. How To Teach Children to Know Their Own Engines.
5. What Does It Mean to Be "At Risk"?
6. Making and Keeping Friends.
7. Tools for Promoting Children's Mental Health (previous six sessions attendance is recommended)
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Good Talking With
You
A series of 5 two hour classes dealing with language acquisition
through conversation. It shows how to nurture language through
conversations-conversations that teach, inform and build strong bonds and
vital communication skills.
[*These
workshops recommended for parent education classes.]
The 5 two hour sessions must be taken in order.
* Session 1: Oh Say What They See
* Session 2: Let's Talk
* Session 3: Now You're Talking
* Session 4: Between You and Me
* Session 5: Space to Grow
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Many Right
Ways
Successful family child care providers believe that
their environment sets the stage for the kind of care they offer children. But
environments don't all have to be the same. In Many Right Ways, we see
a variety of rich child care settings that reflect how each home, group of
children, and program is individual. Engaged children and experienced
providers illustrate hundreds of ways to design unique, quality, home-based
environments. Covering such topics as learning areas and materials; the
family's adaptations to and for childcare; outdoor space health, safety, and
routines; communicating with families; and accessibility and storage. These
classes are excellent training for current and new providers.
3 two hour sessions
*Session 1: Planning For Your Space
*Session 2: Setting Up for Child Directed Play
*Session 3: Creating Activity Areas
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The Power of Positive Communication
Provided as a 6 hour training or three 2 hour workshops, these training
sessions will demonstrate how to give positive messages, make sure
children understand and provide extra support when they don't. Learners
practice giving positive messages, reflect on their own experiences, do
interactive exercises and develop action plans for taking new skills and
strategies into their classrooms and child care settings.
The three 2 hour sessions must be taken in order.
- Session 1: First Steps to
Positive Communication
What is a "Do Message"?
How to Give a Clear Message.
Why "Do Messages" Work.
- Session 2: Strengthen Your
Communication
Nonverbal Communication Counts
Check for Understanding
- Session 3: The Impact of
Language on Classrooms
Exploring the "Feeling Tone".
Negative + Negative = Negative
Tools for Classroom Management
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Creative Curriculum™
What is a "curriculum" and what can it offer you? A curriculum is a plan for
your program. It helps you understand how children grow and provides practical
ideas for organizing your home and planning activities that will help children
develop. It is a framework for what actually happens in a planned environment
when children interact with materials, with other children, and with adults. Creative Curriculum™
will make your job as a family
child care provider easier and more rewarding.
Creative Curriculum ™
is taught in a series of 13 - two hour workshops.
You can take some or all
workshops in any order.
Workshops include:
- Introduction to Creative Curriculum™
To introduce curriculum, it's importance in early care, and how to
implement it.
- Child Development as a Foundation for a High-Quality Program
To gain an understanding of how children think and learn at each stage
of development.
- Setting the Stage
To assist in establishing an appropriate and interesting home
environment and in managing their daily program.
- Dramatic Play
To develop appreciation for the importance of dramatic play and to learn
ways of encouraging imaginative play in family child care.
- Blocks
To emphasize the importance of block play for children of all ages.
- Toys
To demonstrate how to select and use toys that support development in
infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children.
- Art
To encourage providers to use all kinds of art media to promote
children's creativity and self-esteem.
- Books
To inspire an interest in high-quality children's books and identify
effective ways to use books in a family child care setting.
- Sand and Water
To encourage family child care providers to include sand and water
activities in their programs.
- Cooking
To show how cooking experiences can be incorporated easily into a
program that involves children of all ages.
- Music and Movement
To introduce participants to a variety of creative ways to include music
and movement activities in their daily program.
- Outdoor Play
To show how outdoor environment offers a wide range of learning
opportunities for children.
- Building Partnerships with Parents
To provide a form for parents and providers to share concerns and
identify strategies for working together in a partnership.
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- Parenting Counts:
Focus on Early Learning
These workshops are
written with parents and caregivers in mind as the primary audience.
Each unit is designed to support what parents and caregivers already
understand about children and deepen that knowledge with activities, videos,
and handouts drawn from scientific research.
[*These
workshops recommended for parent education classes.]
Workshops include:
- Communicating with Infants
- Copycats
- Handling Stress
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Dollars & Sense
A program designed to teach as the business aspect of
family child care.
Program consists of 12 separate one hour trainings that are generally
presented 2 per session.
You can take some or all
workshops in any order.
Workshops include:
- Child Care Provider Bill of Rights
- Contracts and Policies
- Eliminate Guilt
- Rates, Fees, and Collection
- Passive, Aggressive, and Assertive
- An Effective Record Keeping System
- Listening Skills
- Cash In, Cash Out - Where Do You Stand?
- Sharing Unpleasant Information With Parents
- Marketing Strategies
- Responsibilities of an Assertive Provider
- A Professional Business Plan
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- For more information on any of the above workshops,
please contact me.
- Telephone
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320-796-6222
- Postal address
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332 Lake Avenue South
Spicer, Minnesota 56288
- Electronic mail
- More Information:
Tammy
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