Teachers

• Activate Kids: Promoting Healthy Lifestyles (2 hours) – Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the US.  Examine prevention measures and ways to encourage an active lifestyle.
• An Engaging Look at Professionalism in Early Care and Education (2 hours) Examine professional norms for early care and education, while developing a personal professional growth plan.
• An Ounce of Prevention:  Classrooms That Promote Wellness (2 hours) – Nobody wants their children to get sick. Using real scenarios, participants explore communicable disease prevention.
• Brain Compatible Teaching and Learning (2 hours) Children’s brains change every day, and the way you work with them either enhances or impairs their learning. Explore 7 key concepts that shape effective teaching practices.
• Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: The Implications of Quality Early Care and Education for Brain Development (2 hours) - Explore current thought on brain development both before and after birth and delve into how  our early care and education environments influence this process.
• Building Supportive Environments for School Age Children (2 hours) – Explore practical strategies that attract and maintain the interest of school age children.  Encourage involvement, decrease homework dilemmas, and promote life-long learning.
• CDA Child Development Associate Training (120 hours) – This CDA course meets the 120 hour educational requirement for obtaining a National CDA Credential.
• Eating Smart: Making Healthy Choices in the Right Amount From All the Food Groups (2 hours) - Review the contributing factors to the childhood obesity crises, its contributing factors, and take a hands-on approach to nutrition awareness and menu planning for preschool programs.
• Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory: Reaching Every Learner (2hours) – Intelligence was described as a number until Gardner came along. Learn how to reach every learner by applying Gardner’s MI Theory in the classroom.
• Going the Extra Mile: Building Trusting Relationships with Parents (2 hours) – Explore the importance of building trusting relationships with the families you serve. Trusting relationships will enhance client satisfaction and improve enrollment and retention.
• Helping Children Make Appropriate Choices: Positive Discipline and Guidance (2 hours) – No more time-outs, take a look at how you can identify and implement appropriate discipline and guidance techniques with young children.
• Helping Kids Make Connections (2 hours) - Children’s brains change every day, and the way you work with them either enhances of impairs their learning. Go beyond basic brain research to explore powerful instructional strategies that tap into the intrinsic motivation of all learners.
• Research to Practice: How the ECE Environment Influences Brain Development (2 hours) – Explore current thought on brain development and discover how the early care and education environment can influence the process.
• Safe Spaces: Preventing Injuries by Managing the Learning Environment (2 hours) Nobody wants a child to get hurt!  Using a proactive approach to injury prevention, providers take action to eliminate and reduce hazards to enhance safety.
• Silent Calls for Help: Recognizing and Responding to Indicators of Abuse and Neglect (2 hours) – This session provides overviews of indicators of abuse and neglect and state law related to mandated reporting.
• Young Investigators: Using the Project Approach with ECE (2 hours) – A hands on interactive exploration of the Project Approach and how to use it with pre-schoolers and school age children.

Kitchen Personnel

• Keeping It Safe: Food Service Safety and Sanitation in Child Care (2 hours) – This session explores food contamination and its prevention in child care settings and includes GA Rules and the application of hygienic and sanitation principles.
• Nutrition I – Basic Nutrition and Menu Planning for ECE Programs (2 hours) – An interactive session exploring the development of nutritionally sound menus and meal patterns that are appealing to young children.