CDA York County Presents A new look to our CDA Program 3 Ways to Build your Training Portfolio Susan Carroll CDA Program Director.

CDA York County Presents

• A new look to our CDA Program• 3 Ways to Build your

Training Portfolio

Susan Carroll CDA Program Director

• CDA York County is now offering 3 ways to earn your CDA Credential! Model A= Traditional nine-month program earning 120 documented training hours, fulfilling 480 hours of field experience, building your professional portfolio, and understanding the verification process to meet CDA 2.0 standards. One location, one instructor. Model B= Sequence of modules where you can take a class or a series of classes based on your need. Each class is worth 3 documented training hours and each module is worth 12 documented training hours. Let’s say the family module was held every Tuesday the month of November. You could send your staff to this module. One location, one instructor.

Model C= We bring the training to you! Does your staff need a refresher class in Family Relationships? We will come to your center and bring the training to you. • Each completed module is worth 12 documented training hours that can be put toward earning your yearly training or CDA hours. One class is worth 3 documented training hours.• The cost of a whole module is $200.00 per person. Take one course at a time out of each module and the cost is $55.00 per person. Take the whole course and save 10% for a total cost of $1,800.

Module I Maintain a Safe, Healthy Learning Environment

Session 1: Safety: Ensuring children are safe in your environment. This includes knowledge on how to prevent and reduce injuries, handle emergencies, set-up a safeenvironment and the importance of being a mandated reporter.Session 2: Healthy: Promoting a healthy environment for children involves bestpractice in encouraging healthy habits for life. This includes nutritious meals, familystyle dining, dental hygiene, and childhood illnesses.Session 3: Childhood Obesity: Discussing this epidemic and what are somestrategies we could do which could have a impact. Video: Weight of the NationSession 4: Learning Environment: Understanding space, relationships, materials and routines as resources for constructing an environment for success.

Outcome= A safe, healthy environment that is organized allows the teacher to spendmore time to observe and interact in positive ways. Routines, schedules andsmooth transitions create a comfortable atmosphere helping children feel safe, secure and know the routines. That means less work for the teachers!

Module llUnderstanding Child Development and Theorists who impacted the field

Session 1: Theory: Taking a look into 5 major theorists and how they are intertwinedIn the foundation of best practice. Video= Development of Theorists ISession 2: Infant Development: Understanding brain research and development which is crucial in the first years of life. Video=The effects of brain development when trauma is involved.Session 3: Toddler Development: Overview of the challenges working with this agegroup and how your role as a teacher impacts their daily lives. Video=Time for ToddlerSession 4: Preschool Development: Looking at all aspects of the preschool child andwhat their growing mind and bodies need for success. Video=Creative Curriculum

Outcome= Teachers who understand the theory behind best practice are more likely to meet each child’s individual needs, ensuring a healthy development. It is Important to remember that all areas of development are connected.

Module lllPhysical and Intellectual Development

Session 1: Physical: Physical development is an essential part of the whole child. This Includes using large and small muscles, coordinating movement and using the senses.Recognizing and respecting the differences in individual rates of development.Looking at ways to bring the inside environment outside.Session 2: Learning through Play: Understanding the various stages of play. Whatyour role is as a teacher to build children’s play. Dissecting the debate on why learning through play can be a tough sell to parents/educators.Session 3: Circle Time made Simple: A workshop designed to explore a variety of props teachers can use to help them make circle time less stressful and interactive for children. Remember learning to count doesn’t have to come from a calendar!Please bring your favorite circle time activity.Session 4: Process vs. Product: A workshop designed to help understand why“project” art is not considered best practice. By offering an open ended art areawith a variety of art media, imagination will come from the children not the teachers.

Outcome= Children who have positive experiences with physical activities tend tohave a positive sense of self and develop healthy life long habits.

Module lVSupporting Social and Emotional Development

Session 1: Self: Accepting each child as an individual and providing the physicaland emotional security it takes to encourage children’s independence and selfesteem. Helping children learn about themselves and others.Session 2: Social: Helping children strengthen and secure positive relationshipswith their peers and adults. The importance of small and large group activities.Session 3: Temperaments: Viewing each child as an individual and understandinghow temperaments are an important gage when planning and guiding each child.Addressing the three areas of temperaments; Fearful, Feisty and Flexible.Session 4: Guidance: By providing a supportive environment, children can begin tounderstand and learn acceptable behaviors. Understanding the difference betweenDiscipline vs. Punishment and why Time Outs are so 1990’s and don’t work.

Outcome= Children who learn to solve problems through conflict resolution helpthem to be assertive, confident and a role model to others. Social/EmotionalSkills are the number one success of kindergarten.

Session 1: Gaining Awareness: Understanding yourself and how you view the definition of family, will help support the diversefamilies you work with.Session 2: What is your role?: How to include families and formpartnerships within the community of the classroom.Session 3: Diversity: Taking a closer look at individual families, getting to know their traditions, cultures and how to respect individuality and differences.Session 4: Forming Partnerships: Video /Building Bridges.

Communicating effectively to encourage dialogue.

Outcome= When staff build positive, meaningful relationships with families, it encourages their involvement in the program and supports the child’s relationshipwith their family. It is also is essential to the child‘s success. The center benefits alsowith in the community, establishing standards of quality.

Module V Positive and Productive Relationships with Families

Module VlProgram Management and Professionalism

Session 1: What does quality care look like?: Taking a look at what it really takes tobe a “quality” center. Understanding the benefits of a “quality center” and what itprovides to children, families and staff. Making improvements.Session 2: Teamwork: How to successfully work as a team. Understanding strategies that will work and be beneficial for everyone. How to have a successfulstaff meeting.Session 3: Professionalism: What it takes to become a professional early childhoodeducator. The difference between a professional and a non-professional.Resume Building.Session 4: Program Management: Understanding policies and procedures. Takinga look at the center as a whole and how it wants to operate. Looking at common dilemmas in the Early Childhood field and determining if they are ethical or moraldilemmas.

Outcome= The benefits or running a quality program with professional staff will prove in the long run to have less staff turn over, which will lead to a moreproductive staff.

Module VllEmergent Literacy

Session 1: Communication: Exploring verbal and non verbal cues to communicate.What body language says about us. Video: Babies. Because of cultural differences and communication styles, do you think it affected the child’s development?Session 2: Language: Understand your knowledge of child development to supportlanguage development. Understanding the root of language and how phonologicalawareness promotes early literacy.Session 3: Story Extenders with Flannels: This is a interactive class where student’sbring in their favorite book they read to children. They are asked to share their story in class. They will also be making a flannel board to that story. Materials provided.Session 4: Creating a rich literacy environment: We will be exploring, planning and creating what children need to extend his language learning in the environment. We will be looking at all interest areas.

Outcome= Early literacy in children will give them the head start they need to be successful and life long learners.

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” - Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

Module VlllBeing a Manager, What does it take?

Session 1: Who Moved My Cheese?: Based on the book by Dr. Spencer Johnson, thisJourney makes us take a look at change in our life and work, and how we approach the writing on the wall.Session 2: Attitude Reflects Leadership: Taking a deeper look on how to sustain orRebuild staff committed to working together to ensure quality.Session 3: Management vs. Leadership: Which style reflects the people you workwith? These two terms are very similar but produce a very different outcome of staff productivity.Session 4: Understanding your staff: Recognizing staff burnout and what strategiesyou can take to reduce it.

Outcome= Recognizing needs and goals through reflection of change will generateenthusiasm, producing positive changes within the center.

Module IXVariety of Classes

Session 1: Observations: An in-depth look at how to observe children, why it is important and how to incorporate them into your curriculum.Session 2: Curriculum Building: Using the Creative Curriculum template to build a curriculum supporting best practice and individual children. Make less work for yourself and increase children’s learning by offering a story, art experiences and songsmore than once in your curriculum.Session 3: Special Needs: Understanding the practices of the ADA. Video: Fat City.Discussion following.Session 4: Autism: Video: Talking back to Autism. Using the book The Golden Hat to help students understand the struggles of how children and families feel whenlocked inside a mind they cannot control.

Outcome= The more you know the more you grow. Informative topics for teachersto use in their daily work with children.

Module XPutting it all together

Session 1: Competency Goals 1-3: Introducing the set up of the competency goals complying with the Council of Professional Recognitions standards. We will bewriting the first one in class. Please bring a laptop if available to these sessions.Session 2: Competency Goals 3-6: A continuation of Session 1.Session 3: Collecting Resources: Using class to research, write and collect half of thenecessary resources.Session 4: Collecting Resources: A continuation of Session 3. Reviewing what theR.O.R visit will look like. Taking a practice test. Understanding when to distribute theFamily survey questions, and what the review and reflection piece will look like.

Outcome= Having staff hold a minimum of their CDA credential may increase yourrating on the QRS system under professional development. Increasing knowledge of staff in best practice supports NAEYC requirements.