Training Calendar, January-March 2010

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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) top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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)  top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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) top

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.  top

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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