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Training Calendar, January-March 2010 |
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| Training |
Dates |
Time |
Location |
Trainer |
Fee
QRS/Non QRS |
| OperationOperating Operating A Family Child Care Business Child Care |
Mondays
Jan 25 - March 15
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ONLINE |
Ruth Burke |
$10/$15 |
| Foundations of Center Based Care |
Wednesdays
Jan 13 - Mar 17 |
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ONLINE |
Kim Mngqibisa |
$15/$20 |
| Supporting Maine's Infant and Toddlers: Guidelines for Learning |
Mondays
Jan 25-Nar 22 |
6-9 PM |
Freeport Middle School |
Ruth Burke |
$15/$20 |
| Foundations of Health, Wellness and Safety |
Tuesdays
Feb 2-March 16 |
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ONLINE |
Health Ouellette |
$10/$15 |
| Maine's Early Learning Guidelines |
Tuesdays
Feb 2-March 30 |
6-9 PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Debora Schofield |
$15/$20 |
| Partners in Caring: Families and Caregivers |
Wednesdays
Feb 3-Mar 24 |
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ONLINE |
Margaret Cushing |
$10/$15 |
| Starting Your Core Knowledge Portfolio |
Thursday
Feb 11 |
6-9 PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Debora Schofield |
$5/$10 |
| Getting Started in Family Child Care Part 1 |
Saturday
Feb 20 |
9AM-3PM |
Scarborough, Child Care Connections |
Debora Schofield |
$5/$10 |
| Getting Started in Family Child Care Part 2 |
Saturday
Mar 6 |
9AM-3PM |
Scarborough, Child Care Connections |
Ruth Burke |
$5/$10 |
| Maine's Early Learning Guidelines |
Wednesdays
Mar 10-May 5 |
6 -9 PM |
Windham High School |
Lee Lingelbach |
$15/$20 |
| CPR/First Aid |
Saturdays
Jan 9,Feb 13, OR Mar 13 |
8AM-4PM |
Scarborough, Child Care Connections |
Margaret Cushing |
$30 |
| Children and Grief |
Monday
January 11
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6-8 PM |
Scarborough, Child Care Connections |
Valerie Jones |
$10 |
Environmental Rating Scale
ECERS |
Tuesday
Jan 12 |
6-9 PM
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Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Debora Schofield |
$5/$10 |
Environmental Rating Scale
ITERS |
Tuesday
Jan 19 |
6-9 PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Debora Schofield |
$5/$10 |
Environmental Rating Scale
FCCERS |
Tuesday
Jan 26 |
6-9 PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Debora Schofield |
$5/$10 |
| QRS Informational Session |
Thursday
Feb 18 |
6-9 PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Debora Schofield |
$5/$10 |
| Kids Oral Health Partnership |
Thursday
Mar 25 |
6-8 PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Linda Elias |
$5/$10 |
| Holy Cow! What Do I Do Now? FCC |
Saturday
Mar 6 |
9AM-3PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Margaret Cushing |
$5/$10 |
| Transportation Safety |
Saturday
Mar 20 |
9AM-1PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Stacy Fortunato |
$5/$10 |
| Literacy and the Youngest Learner |
Wednesdays
Mar 31-May 12 |
6-9 PM |
Scarborough
Child Care Connections |
Jodelle Austin |
$10/$15 |
| Bagels and Business (for center directors) |
Wednesdays Jan 20, Feb 17, Mar 17
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1-3 PM |
various locations |
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$5 each session |
| Children and Chocolates (family child care) |
Wednesdays Jan 20, Feb 17, Mar 17 |
6:30 - 8:30 PM |
Scarborough, Child Care Connections
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$5 each session |
Partners in
Caring– Families and Caregivers (12 hours) - Children
experience the best quality of care when parent(s) and family and caregivers are
partners with the same goals for the child. This training covers information
about families today, roles and boundary setting, verbal/written communication
to reduce potential areas of conflict between families and caregivers.
(A Maine
Roads to Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Fostering the Social-Emotional
Competence of Young Children (30 hours) -
This training covers the five aspects of this critical domain of development:
building positive relationships with children and families, leaning classroom
preventive practices, facilitating social-emotional development, determining the
meaning of challenging behaviors, and developing intensive interventions and
behavior support plans. (A
Maine Roads to Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Working with School-Age
Children and Youth (30 hours) -
Covers
the aspects of providing child care for 5-13 year old children in a center-based
or a family child care setting. It adheres to the standards and practices
outlined for child care and early education in the eight core knowledge areas.
(A Maine
Roads to Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Curriculum
and Development for Preschool-Aged Children (15 hours) -
This
curriculum is designed to introduce participants to planning, developing, and
implementing curriculum to meet the unique needs of preschoolers. In the
first 15 hours of this course participants will study, together, these
commonalities. Then participants will complete the course by choosing one
of the following groups where application to a specific setting will be
explored.
Group I: Center-based (15 hours)- This
group will complete the remaining 15 hours of core knowledge training by
focusing on issues specific to working with preschoolers in center-based
groups. Attention will be paid to building cooperative teaching teams,
designing appropriate, safe, healthy learning environments, scheduling, building
partnerships with parents, and managing larger groups constructively.
Group
II: Family Child Care (15 hours) - This group will complete the remaining 15 hours
of this core knowledge training by focusing on working with the preschooler in a
mixed age (family) grouping. Attention will be paid to planning
environments that can double as a home while providing for safe, healthy, and
stimulating care, building long-term relationships with parents, being a humane
and responsive business, as well as other issues particular to being a family
child care provider. (A
Maine Roads to Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Foundations of
Center-based Care (6 hours) -
This
training serves as a basic overview of working in center-based early childhood
programs. Topics focus on the role and requirements of the early childhood
educator, the needs of young children, the components of quality early childhood
programming, and options for pursuing additional training in the field.
(A Maine Roads to
Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Introduction to Infant Mental Health: Issues and Practices - (18 hours) -Infant mental health is an inter-disciplinary field concerned with maximizing the emotional, physical, social, and cognitive wellbeing of zero to five-year-old children and their caregivers. This course will give an overview of the field while also providing specific information on attachments, temperament, relationship-building, use of self, principles of infant mental health practice, assessment, and identification and support of family strengths. Required for Infant Toddler Credential I
Caring for Infants,
Toddlers, and their Families (30 hours) -
Covers
the unique aspects of providing child care for infants and toddlers in a home or
center-based setting. Focus will be given to establishing the parent/provider
relationship, understanding temperament, curriculum, and setting up and
maintaining developmentally appropriate environments.
(A Maine Roads to
Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Operating a Family
Child Care Business (24 hours) -
This
training is an 8-part series designed to teach basic business management
practices. Topics to be covered include: balancing work and family, tips
on writing contracts and policies, writing a business plan, marketing, basic
recordkeeping, increasing business profits, and growing your business. (A Maine Roads to
Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Inclusive Child Care (30 hours) - This
training covers topics to fully include and support all children and families in
center-based or home settings. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to
support staff, families, and children and emphasizes the beliefs, attitudes, and
values of inclusion. (A Maine Roads to Quality Core
Knowledge Training) top
Caring for the Abuse Affected Child and
Family (18 hours) - This training focuses on raising
awareness of issues that affect children in families where abuse and neglect is
present. It is an interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the areas of
child abuse, substance abuse, and domestic violence. This training
utilizes interactive activities and group work. A team of trainers will
co-facilitate. Participants are actively involved throughout. (A
Maine Roads to Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Introduction to
Early Childhood Education (9 hours) ONLINE -
This training
covers the historical perspective of Early Childhood
Education (ECE) in the U.S., major types of early childhood education programs,
a survey of major theorists who have contributed to the field, and an overview
of common terminology. (A Maine Roads to Quality
Core Knowledge Training)
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Starting Your Core
Knowledge Portfolio (3 hours) -
Introduces
the Core Knowledge Training Program, its uses in professional development and
how the portfolio can transform training into college credit. Basic information
includes procedures for documenting learning, orientation to the Maine Roads
Professional Registry, and tracking hours of training.(A Maine Roads to
Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Weaving
Diversity into Our Work with Children and Families (6 hours) - Participants
will explore personal memories, be introduced to the concepts of the cultural
lens and anti-bias approach, and practice responses using work-based scenarios.
(A
Maine Roads to Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Maine's Early Childhood Learning Guidelines
(30hours) - This curriculum is designed to assist
participants in using the Early Childhood Learning Guidelines (ECLG) to improve
early childhood practices in their work with young children. The heart of
this curriculum is observation and the importance of building good observation
skills for early care and education practitioners. It also serves as a way
for practitioners to collaborate with public schools by aligning the ECLG with
the Maine Learning Results. At the end of each session participants
will be asked to do homework for the next session. For this reason,
there are two weeks between most of the sessions of this course (with the
exception of the first two weeks). It is very important for
participants to complete their homework as it will help them build their
knowledge base. (A Maine Roads Core Knowledge Training)
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Supporting Maine's Infants and Toddlers:
Guidelines for Learning and Development (30 hours) - This
training is intended to help providers understand and use the Infant and Toddler
Learning Guidelines. Topics to be covered include: observation and
assessment, getting to know the guidelines, development into social beings,
development of strong, healthy bodies, development of effective and creative
communications, development of curious minds, and more! At the end of each session participants
will be asked to do homework for the next session. For this reason,
there are two weeks between most of the sessions of this course (with the
exception of the first two weeks). It is very important for
participants to complete their homework as it will help them build their
knowledge base. (A Maine Roads Core Knowledge Training)
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Foundations in Health,
Wellness, and Safety (18 hours) - This
training take in in-depth look at health, wellness, and safety issues that
relate both to children and to child care providers themselves. Topics to
be covered include: approaches to health and wellness, personal care routines,
illness and injury prevention, nutrition and physical activity, environmental
hazard awareness, and special health care needs. (A Maine
Roads Core Knowledge Training) top
Many
Eyes, Many Voices: Talking About Difference Through Children's Literature (6
hours) - Young children are
aware of difference - of skin color, body shape, gender, language, family
structure, living arrangements, from a very early age. This training sues
high quality, vividly illustrated children's books as a vehicle for having
meaningful conversations about difference. Each classroom or child care
home represented will receive 12 books and the curriculum guide for use with the
children in that program. PARTICIPANTS MUST TAKE "WEAVING
DIVERSITY INTO OUR WORK WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES" AS A PRE-REQUISITE FOR
THIS CLASS. (A program of the Maine Humanities Council,
funded in part by Verizon, the Hudson Foundation, and the Aristotle Fund of the
Maine Community Foundation) top
Building
Peaceable Nonviolent Early Childhood Settings
(6 hours) - This training covers a broad range of
topics, including the impact of violent media and toys on children and their
play; the influence of a peaceable classroom in counteracting harmful lessons
about violence; and how to teach developmentally appropriate conflict resolution
skills. (A
Maine Roads to Quality Core Knowledge Training)
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Peaceable Stories: Talking About
Conflict Resolution Through Children's Literature (6 hours) - This
training, co-sponsored with the Maine Humanities Council's Born to Read Program,
is a literature-based training that will provide teachers with strategies for
using children's books to address the issue of conflict resolution with
children. Providers will learn about the powerful potential of children's
books to help children foster the language skills they need to conceptualize
peace with themselves, their friendships, and their classroom community.
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Many Eyes, Many Voices: Part 2 (3
hours) - This training, co-sponsored with the Maine Humanities Council's Born
to Read Program, is a FOLLOW-UP training for those providers who have taken
"Many Eyes, Many Voices: Talking About Difference Through Children's
Literature." Providers will review
their experience with the curriculum and talk about strategies for using the
books to involve families. Participants will also receive curriculum
updates and a new book. top
Children's Transportation Training
(4 hours) - ** This training will meet the requirement of the Department
of Health and Human Services Licensing for Child Care Facilities (page
43). If you have any questions about these requirements, please contact
your licensing worker. **
It is recommended that if your program has a primary vehicle that is used for
transporting children, that you bring it with you on the day of the training,
along with any safety seats that are regularly used. A portion of the
training will be spent actually working with safety seats and installing them
correctly. top
Bagels
& Business (CENTER DIRECTORS ONLY) - Child
care center directors are invited to join CCC on the third Wednesday of the
month for our discussion series "Bagels and Business." The group
meets at various locations thoughout Cumberland County.
Discussion topics are generated by the group with occasional guest
speakers. Please call Margaret to RSVP at 396-6575. top
Getting Started in Family Child Care PART 1(6 hours) Meets state requirements for licensing. Advantages and disadvantages of family child care, an overview of state requlations, the parent/provider relationship, health and safety information, developmentally appropriate practice, plicies and handbooks and more.
Getting Started in Family Child Care Part 2 (6 hours) The companion class to Part 1. Introduces child development, health and safety, curriculum as well as professional development in a family child care setting. At this time, this class isnot part of the licensing requirement, but it offers very helpful material you should know.
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