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Introduction to The Creative Curriculum® for Family Child Care – Spanish
30
Max Participants
This hands-on 1-day session, facilitated in Spanish, introduces providers to the components of The Creative Curriculum® for Family Child Care, a comprehensive, research-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum that addresses the specific needs of the family child care community. Participants will identify strategies to build warm, nurturing relationships with all learners and intentionally promote each child’s development and learning. During this session, participants will explore the three curricular volumes and the Daily Resources (Intentional Teaching Cards®, Mighty Minutes® for Family Child Care, Book Conversation Cards® for Highlights Hello®, Book Conversation Cards® for Highlights High Five Bilingüe®, and LearningGames®) to plan and implement meaningful routines and intentional experiences for all the children in their care.
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Prerequisites:
None
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Kindergarten
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
1 Day
Supporting Children With Disabilities With The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool
30
Max Participants
During this important 1-day session, participants will learn how to facilitate inclusive high-quality instructional opportunities and engage in individualized teacher-child interactions. Grounded by the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), participants will identify multiple ways children can acquire and demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities. Participants will identify a variety of forms of instruction, learning, and assessment and identify ways that allow all children to communicate what they know and can do.
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Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
1 Day
The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool: Coaching to Fidelity of Implementation
15
Max Participants
Designed for individuals who provide direct classroom support to teachers, this session introduces participants to the 2nd Edition Coaching to Fidelity and The Fidelity Checklist for Administrators or the new Coaching to Fidelity app and corresponding Coaching to Fidelity Checklist for Teachers, resources that enable the measurement of teachers’ fidelity of implementation of The Creative Curriculum® and provide actionable suggestions to support teachers’ instructional practices. During the session, participants will identify the characteristics of fidelity, examine strategies for observing teachers using a strengths-based lens, and learn how to engage teachers in ongoing coaching cycles. Programs using the Coaching to Fidelity app will learn how to navigate the digital resource and leverage the tool during each component of the coaching cycle.
Programs using the Coaching to Fidelity app will learn how to navigate the digital resource and leverage the tool during each component of the coaching cycle.
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Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
1 Day
Implementing Studies to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning
30
Max Participants
This 1-day session is designed to help teachers using The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool effectively implement studies in their classrooms. Participants will learn how to choose appropriate study topics, understand how to prepare for a study, and investigate how to effectively implement a study from beginning to end. Through hands-on interactive experiences, participants will be introduced to the three parts of a study and the benefits of conducting long-term investigations with children. Additionally, participants will learn how to address the objectives for development and learning in meaningful ways during a study and how to include families and the community in children’s learning.
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Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
1 Day
Social-Emotional Development and Learning Within The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool
30
Max Participants
During this 1-day session, participants will explore their role in promoting the healthy social-emotional development of preschool children. Participants will learn about the importance of planning and creating opportunities for social-emotional learning, appropriate expectations for children’s behavior at different ages, using positive guidance strategies, and the impact of the environment on children’s social-emotional development.
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Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Preschool
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
1 Day
Introduction to GOLD®
30
Max Participants
Assessment is a vital piece of effective and responsive teaching. During this hands-on 1-day session, participants will examine the importance of ongoing formative assessment and reflect on their current teaching and assessment practices. Participants will practice using a variety of tools to gather authentic information about children’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. By leveraging the progressions of development and learning, participants will strengthen their ability to make accurate assessment decisions. Participants will also explore digital tools used to bolster family partnerships and engage in two-way communication.
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Prerequisites:
None
Grades 1-3
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Kindergarten
Preschool
GOLD
1 Day
1 Day
Partnering With Families in The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos
30
Max Participants
During this 1-day session, participants will learn practical strategies for building and maintaining partnerships with children’s families that are based on a foundation of trust, cultural awareness, and mutual respect. In this session, participants will explore how the framework of The Creative Curriculum® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos relates to the ways teachers and caregivers build and nourish partnerships with families. Participants will also identify strategies for constructing effective teacher-family partnerships and explore the many benefits of fostering positive authentic relationships.
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Introduction to The Creative Curriculum®
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Creative Curriculum
1 Day
2 Day
Introduction to GOLD®
30
Max Participants
Assessment is a vital piece of effective and responsive teaching. During this hands-on 2-day session, participants will examine the importance of ongoing formative assessment and reflect on their current teaching and assessment practices. Participants will identify the purposes of summative and formative assessment and examine resources used to facilitate the collection of data. Participants will also practice using a variety of tools to gather authentic information about children’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. By leveraging the progressions of development and learning, participants will strengthen their ability to make accurate assessment decisions. Participants will also explore digital tools used to bolster family partnerships and engage in two-way communication.
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None
Grades 1-3
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Kindergarten
Preschool
GOLD
2 Day
1 Day
Revisiting Al’s Pals™: A Closer Look at Strategies that Support Social-Emotional Learning
30
Max Participants
During this 1-day session, experienced users of Al’s Pals review the components of Al’s Pals® resources and Lesson Guides. Through engaging activities, participants will learn about the characteristics of protective factors and evaluate related teaching strategies. Participants will also explore the characteristics of a high-quality calm-down place. Finally, participants will learn how Al’s Pals® helps teachers respond to and prevent bullying behavior.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to Al’s Pals™
Preschool
Al’s Pals
1 Day
0.5 Day
Enhancing Interrater Reliability for GOLD®
30
Max Participants
Interrater Reliability is a process designed to verify a teacher’s ability to assign accurate and reliable assessment levels to observations and documentation of children’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Achieving Interrater Reliability means that a teacher’s assessment decisions align with those of the expert raters at Teaching Strategies® who developed GOLD® as a system to support ongoing, authentic, observation-based assessment. Achieving interrater reliability (or reliability for any tool) can be challenging. During this 3-hour session, participants will be introduced to helpful strategies for navigating the interrater reliability process successfully. Additionally, participants will be led by a Teaching Strategies® expert through a series of practice exercises, evaluating example evidence of social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy, and mathematics development and learning and hearing details on why a piece of documentation and the knowledge skills and abilities it reflects is assigned a particular rating. Note: Participants must complete Introduction to GOLD® prior to this session.
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Prerequisites:
Introduction to GOLD®
Infants, Toddlers & Twos
GOLD
0.5 Day
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