Credentials and Programs Approved for Ohio “Step Up To Quality” and Child Development Hours:

Strategies and Intervention for Pre-School Children with Hyperactive Behaviors:

  • Empower staff to recognize problem behaviors that indicate symptoms of hyperactive behavior
  • Practice hands on interventions and strategies

Early Intervention: Strategies for Success:

  • Explore skills and abilities necessary to become an advocate for children with special needs.
  • Recognize “Red Flags’ that indicate a need for intervention
  • Apply strategies and practice methods for intervention

Social and Emotional Challenges for Pre-School Children:

  • Educate staff to develop their knowledge of developmental milestones in social and emotional development of the pre-school age child.
  • Practice teaching strategies  and interventions that assist with identification of social and emotional challenges

Parent-Teacher Communications – Instilling Confidence for Positive Outcomes:

  • Provide several strategies that will enhance communication between parents and teachers
  • Explore what parents and teachers really want to know in conferences
  • Provide tools and case scenarios to assists with parent-teacher conferences

 Learning Through Play:

  • Learn the meaning of play for pre-school and elementary age children
  • Discover how teaching staff can enter the world of play with children
  • Practice hands on tools that demonstrate the importance of play in teaching.

Stress Management For Administrators and Staff:

  • Identify self care steps to managing stress in the workplace
  • Utilize problem solving skills
  • Develop “ stress buster” strategies

Structuring a Multi-Cultural Classroom for Young Children

  • Defining a culturally responsive classroom
  • Hands on ideas and activities to create a multi-cultural learning environment
  • Create an ongoing awareness of diversity and multi-culturalism in the early learning environment.

Strategies to Build Emotional Resilience in Young Children

  • Teachers will learn social and emotional development of the young child
  • Discuss the importance of building emotional resiliency in toddlers, pre-school, and school age children,
  • Identify and practice four models of teaching emotions that can build childrens social skills

POSITIVE STROKES FOR ALL FOLKS

Strategies to Improve Self-Esteem in Chidren and Families

Staff will explore the myths and facts about self esteem

  1. Take a self inventory to discover dynamics of their own self esteem
  2. Review self esteem as a strength based method of instruction

Staff will learn five key methods to promote self esteem in children and families= Fabulous Five!

Also Available:

PROGRAMS:

  • Behavior
  • Discipline
  • Child Development
  • Family Issues
  • Parent Teacher Conferences
    (What to say and why)
  • Parenting Topics

CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE CREDENTIAL (CDA)

Foster parent and adoptive parent training.

EDUCATION SERVICES

ADVOCACY:

  • Research based teaching tools will guide you as you address specific situations in and out of the classroom. Utilize consulting, coaching, and observations for your classroom needs.

RESOURCES AND REFERRALS:

We direct your efforts to locate the appropriate resources and referrals.