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Based on a video instructional series in early childhood development for early childhood professionals, caregivers, and parents.  This series of 13 workshops consists of a half-hour video program and 1 and 1/2 hours of coordinated training for each video session.

The Workshops: 

• It's the Little Things:  Handling Daily Routines
  The importance of a well-ordered and predictable environment.
  • Objectives:
    1. To help to understand the general principles related to handling routines in a healthy way.
    2. To acquaint you with the elements of a good, full-day schedule.
    3. To provide strategies for carrying through smooth transitions.
    4. To increase awareness of the need for handling parent-child separations.
    5. To inform participants of sound nutritional planning that incorporated multicultural values.
    6. To inform participants about wholesome attitudes toward toileting and nap time.
       
        
• By Leaps and Bounds:  Development of Physical Self
  Physical development and appropriate developmental activities, good health practices, and environmental safety.
  • Objectives:
    1. To emphasis the value of good physical health and the importance of the provider’s role in monitoring the state of the children
    2. To build an appreciation of the value of physical activities for the children.
    3. To provide an outline for planning developmentally appropriate activities that provide comprehensive coverage for physical development.
    4. To build an appreciation of the value of sensory experiences in the life of a child.
       
        
• Babies Are Children, Too: Caring for Infants & Toddlers
  The special concerns when caring for infants in groups and the importance of nurturing care.
  • Objectives:
    1. To help understand the value of providing high quality care for infants and toddlers.
    2. To define the essential components of high quality care.
    3. To show the basics of infant development and developmentally appropriate practices.
    4. To provide strategies for responding to special issues in the first three years.
    5. To promote a professional commitment for and advocate high quality care.
       
        
• Dealing With Feelings:  Fostering Mental Health in Young Children
  Activities that promote emotional health in family relations, self-expression, and dealing with frustration and stress.
  • Objectives:
    1. To acquaint participants with the prevalence of mental illness in our society.
    2. To illustrate how Erikson’s stage of development can be linked to practical teaching behaviors that help children work through these stages in ways that foster development of emotional health.
    3. To provide the basic standards for evaluating the emotional behavior of children
    4. To demonstrate the technique of describing and reflecting feelings.
    5. To identify basic standards for evaluating own behavior in relation to it’s effect on the emotional self of the child.
       
        
• I'm Glad I'm Me: Developing Self Esteem in Young Children
  Recognizing children's accomplishments and offering opportunities for individual choice.
  • Objectives:
    1. To provide a definition of self-esteem and explain the difference between esteem that is extrinsic and intrinsic.
    2. To identify common teaching practices that may reduce feelings of self-worth.
    3. To suggest positive methods of enhancing self-esteem using both extrinsic and intrinsic approaches.
    4. To stress the value of competence, creativity, and mastery as being sound ways to instill long-term feelings of self-worth.
       
        
• Listening to Families:  Communication Skills
  Ways to help families deal with everyday problems and life crises.
  • Objectives:
    1. To suggest ways of establishing good relationships between providers and parents.
    2. To discuss problems and situations that interferes with good communication.
    3. To provide practical suggestions about how to carry out effective guidance work.
    4. To acquaint participant with basic principles of crisis management
    5. To provide information about specific crises that may affect young children.
    6. To provide specific recommendations for dealing with specific crises in as productive way as possible.
       
        
• Everybody's Special:  Working With Exceptional Children
  Working with children who have special educational needs.
  • Objectives:
    1. To help participant feel more comfortable about having children with disabilities in their care.
    2. To provide the basic understanding of how to bring about referrals when necessary.
    3. To show the importance of working as team members when serving children with disabilities.
    4. To provide the fundamental principles that are effective when working with children who are differently-abled.
    5. The provide entry level information about specific disabilities as well as some resources for obtaining more information.
    6. To explain the implications of federal law as it related to children with disabilities.

For more in-depth learning, consider Project Exceptional workshops.

• Getting Along Together:  Developing Social Competence in Young Children
  Childhood social development and ways to enhance a child's social competence.
  • Objectives:
    1. To provide a brief outline of the social development of young children and what these findings imply for teaching.
    2. To identify seven age-appropriate social goals to work toward with young children.
    3. To suggest effective methods of helping children learn the social skills related to each of the seven goals.
       
        
• Building Inner Controls:  Establishing Self-Discipline & Self-Control
  Guiding children in controlling themselves and finding acceptable ways to express their aggressive feelings.
  • Objectives:
    1. To inform how moral development takes place and how the process can be facilitated in young children.
    2. To provide the basic guidelines on how to control children in a reasonable way.
    3. To prepare participants on what to do when a discipline crisis occurs.
    4. To outline the basic steps for handling children who continue to misbehave.
    5. To identify undesirable methods of dealing with aggression.
    6. To explain why not all aggression should be discouraged.
       
        
• Respecting Diversity: Providing Cross-Cultural & Nonsexist Education
  How prejudice develops and how to respect cultural differences.
  • Objectives:
    1. To provide evidence that even young children are aware of racial and gender differences.
    2. To define and explain two approaches that are helpful in teaching about cultural and gender differences and similarities.
    3. To provide ideas and suggestion about ways to incorporate multiethnic, nonsexist education.

For more in-depth learning, consider Building Cultural Connections workshops.

• Creativity and Play: Fostering Creativity
  The relationship of creativity to self-worth and self-expression.
  • Objectives:
    1. To explain why creativity is valuable in the lives of children and the necessity to nurture it.
    2. To provide general recommendations about how to enhance creativity and present various self-expressive creative activities.
    3. To provide reasons why play is essential in fostering the development of a child.
    4. To recommend general ways teachers can support and extend creative play.
    5. To provide practical suggestions for the development of play in specific circumstances.

For more in-depth learning, consider Creative Curriculum workshops.

• Let's Talk About It: Development of Language Skills and Early Literacy
  The process of language acquisition and methods for increasing language competence.
  • Objectives:
    1. To present various theories of language acquisition and outline stages of language development in young children.
    2. To provide six basic ways to foster language development.
    3. To inform of the significance and value of language and dialectical differences.
    4. To recommend methods of working with children who have specific language disorders.
    5. To define emergent literacy and provide practical ways to incorporate developmentally appropriate literacy-based materials in the preschool curriculum.
    6. To discuss ways to cope with pressures to present highly structured reading programs to preschoolers.
    7. To discuss methods of conducting group times that foster both language development and group harmony.

For more in-depth learning, consider SEEDS workshops.

• Growing Minds: Developing Thinking & Reasoning Skills
  Two approaches to developing mental ability: the conventional approach and what is currently known as emergent curriculum.
  • Objectives:
    1. To identify and describe the most important underlying priorities when planning learning activities for cognitive self.
    2. To discuss contributions of Piaget and his cognitive theories.
    3. To explain the value of developing specific mental abilities and recommend appropriate activities.
    4. To provide techniques of using thought-provoking questions.
    5. To clarify how the emergent approach differs from and enhances the conventional approach to cognitive curriculum.
    6. To describe the elements of emergent approach and explain how to implement it.

The Whole Child Series Endorsements:

"The skills that are so important to us--skills to improve children's educational, emotional, social, nutritional, and psychological well-being--are demonstrated here in the clearest possible way, because we see them through the real interactions of Detroit-area children and caregivers. With its constant awareness of multicultural issues, and of children with special needs, The Whole Child is a wonderful tool for childcare providers, training personnel, and parents alike."
     --Sarah M. Greene, CEO, National Head Start Association

The Whole Child is exceptionally useful and timely for NACCRRA members and the general public."
     --Yasmina Vinci, Executive Director, National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA)

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