Indoor Energy Busters (AKA Gross Motor Activities)
This course explains the importance of keeping gross motor a part of your everyday routine even on days when you cannot get outside due to weather or scheduling conflicts. Course length – 2.0 hours. The course will help answer the following questions: What is gross motor? Why is gross motor important? How does gross motor […]
When Children Bite
This course helps early childhood educators understand, prevent and respond to a very difficult behavior. When children bite, it is upsetting to the child that gets bitten, the biter and both families. Course length – 1.0 hour. This course helps answer the following questions: Why do children bite? How can we prevent biting? What should […]
Caring for Infants
This course provides the information you need to give safe and effective care to infants. There are many things to consider when you will be caring for infants and each is important to the children’s health, safety and development. Course length – 2.5 hours. The course helps answer the following questions: What is the difference […]
Introduction to Early Intervention: How to Spot a Need and Where to Turn for Support
One of the most crucial time periods for learning and development in a child’s life is from birth to the age of 5. Because 90% of the brain develops during this time, children are meeting new milestones almost every day. But what happens if we notice a child isn’t meeting their developmental milestones? How do […]
Learning Centers and Their Benefits
Learning centers are a vital part of how we set up our classrooms. Whether you are starting a new classroom or looking to redo an existing one, it’s good to know the best ways to go about the entire process. Course length – 3.0 hours. This course helps answer the following questions: Why is it […]
Circle Time: The Importance of Planning – Extended Edition
Circle time is a part of most early childhood professional’s days. This course will help those new to the field learn the basics as well as bringing new ideas to those with experience. The course covers all of the information from the two hour circle time course and more! Circle time and small group time […]
Integrated Learning: Teaching Multiple Skills with One Activity
This course touches on the fact that learning through play is essential. Research has shown that this is the way children learn best. For this reason, when we do choose to do an activity, we need to make the most of it. Course Length – 2.5 hours. The course helps answer the questions: Is learning […]
When Childhood Anxiety Leads to Challenging Behaviors
This course is designed to help teachers and staff understand how to help children in their care with generalized anxiety. These children often act out in ways that are mistaken as behavior problems. Course length – 2.0 hours. The course helps answer the following questions: What is anxiety? What does childhood anxiety look like? What […]
Art For All Ages
This course ventures into the importance and application of art in early childhood education. Course length – 2.0 hours. It helps answer the following questions: What are the key aspects of art in early childhood? What are the primary benefits to children who create art in early childhood? Why, for the benefit of your children, […]
COVID in Early Childhood Education
COVID 19 has brought a lot of changes to early childhood education. Many centers and home cares have closed either temporarily or permanently. It has been a difficult time for everyone. This course provides detailed approaches and suggestions for dealing with all of the extra responsibilities that have come with COVID 19. Course length – […]
Transitions
Transitions can be the toughest times throughout the day for teachers and children alike! We need to understand exactly why transitions are so difficult and how we can make these times work better for everyone involved. Children are extremely sensitive to change and we need to be sensitive to their needs. Course Length – 1.5 […]
Learning Through Play
A child’s “job” is to play! They learn best by playing freely and interacting with their friends. This course explores the five basic areas of child development and how a child can progress in those areas through free play. There are multiple printable resources including small posters about learning through play that you can print […]
Teaching Life Skills to School Age Children
This course is about teaching school age children the life skills they need to do well in their classrooms, relationships and in future endeavors. As children grow, they need to take more and more responsibility for their own lives and the adults in their lives can be great assets in helping them along the way. […]
School Age Science and Art
This course covers what science and art should look like for our school age children and why they are important. We cover what the scientific process is and how to follow it with specific examples. It is filled with ideas for interesting and educational activities that you can take back to your classroom and implement […]
Nutrition, Health and Hygiene
This course covers many aspects of nutrition and health for children from the perspective of the 5-2-1-0 initiative. They recommend at least 5 fruits and veggies per day, less than 2 hours of screen time daily, at least one hour of physical exercise per day and zero sugary drinks for children. We also discuss specific […]
S.T.E.M. PART IV: Math
This course is the final in our four-part S.T.E.M. series. Our math course is broken up into shapes, sorting, patterning, matching, numbers and measuring. Each section explains why that skill is important and how the children can use it. There are printable file folder games, activities and other fun ways to teach math skills to […]
S.T.E.M. Part III: Engineering
The course is the third in our four-part series on S.T.E.M. Part three focuses on engineering in early childhood. We explore what engineering in early childhood is and how to implement it in the classroom. There are many examples of activities you can do with the children in your care, some with videos. We discuss […]
S.T.E.M. Part II: Technology
This course is the second in a four-part series on S.T.E.M. in the classroom. Technology in the classroom is defined as not electronics but simple machines such as catapults, levers and pulleys. The course explains how the technologies work, how they are used in everyday life and how you can guide the children to make […]
S.T.E.M. Part I: Science
This course explains the scientific method and how it can be used in early childhood education. It goes on to explain ways to incorporate other areas of learning into science such as math and literacy. It includes multiple videos with examples of great activities you can do in your center to encourage science with the […]
What About Me? A Guide to Avoiding or Overcoming Burnout
This course defines, in detail, what burnout is. There are many common symptoms. Some people have one, some have a few and some have them all! We will discuss what to do if you are have symptoms and feel that you are starting to experience burnout, in the depths of burnout or just thinking ahead […]