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.
TKW Consulting can also offer customized training.
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)
Good Talking With
You A seriesof 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
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
The Whole Child:
A Caregivers Guide to the First Five Years A series of 13 two hour workshops giving you the latest information about child development
and childcare for the critical years from birth to the age of five. Each
session is comprised of a 1/2 hour video about an area of early
childhood development for early childhood professionals, caregivers, and
parents and 1 and 1/2 hours of coordinated training. [*These
workshops recommended for parent education classes.]
The Whole Child
is taught in a series of 13 - two hour workshops. You can take any or all
workshops in any order.
Workshops include:
It's the Little Things
The importance of a well-ordered and predictable environment.
By Leaps and Bounds
Physical development and appropriate developmental activities, good health
practices, and environmental safety.
Babies Are Children, Too
The special concerns when caring for infants in groups and the importance of
nurturing care.
Dealing With Feelings
Activities that promote emotional health in family relations,
self-expression, and dealing with frustration and stress.
I'm Glad I'm Me
Recognizing children's accomplishments and offering opportunities for
individual choice.
Listening to Families
Ways to help families deal with everyday problems and life crises.
Everybody's Special
Working with children who have special educational needs.
Getting Along Together
Childhood social development and ways to enhance a child's social
competence.
Building Inner Controls
Guiding children in controlling themselves and finding acceptable ways to
express their aggressive feelings.
Respecting Diversity
How prejudice develops and how to respect cultural differences.
Creativity and Play
The relationship of creativity to self-worth and self-expression.
Let's Talk About It
The process of language acquisition and methods for increasing language
competence.
Growing Minds
Two approaches to developing mental ability: the conventional approach and
what is currently known as emergent curriculum.
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
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.
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.]
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.
