Training Calendar

Meeting the Challenge

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $15. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: What every teacher and parent needs to know about behavioral characteristics, managing behavior, engaging in cooperation, management techniques that work, powerful answers to assist children.

How to Talk to Kids So They Will Listen

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $15. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Words to use so that children listen and follow directions, 3 keys to getting children to listen, 5 different techniques so children will listen; learn all of the components that go into being assertive with children.

How to Teach Children to Follow Rules

How to Build a Powerful Team

How to Handle the Hard to Handle Child

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $15. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: How to handle blurting out and disruptions, how to handle angry children, attention deficit disorder, oppositional defiant children, bipolar and autism.

Discipline with Excellence

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $15. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Restore the fun to teaching. Make a difference with your children. Learn the discipline with excellence program that has been proven effective all across the United States. Receive powerful and effective strategies for eliminating discipline problems.

Stress Solutions for Women

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $15. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Leadership & Professional Development
Training Summary: The single most important skill in dealing with stress. Stress in the workplace. 3 major stresses that confront women today. Relaxation techniques.

Do It Right: A Positive Guide for Discipline

Positive Guidance and Discipline

Child Development: Shaping the Future

Teach with Zest

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $39.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $24. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: The ideal schedule for children, how to plan the curriculum for the year, month and week. How to teach children effectively. Learn ways to handle transitions effectively.

Enter the Joyful World of Children

The Path to Power

How to Increase Your Enrollment and Keep Parents Happy

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $87.00 Hours: 24
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $72. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: How to achieve important competitive advantages for your program. How to get customers you really want. How to continue to grow and prosper in changing times.

All Star Parenting

How to Listen So Kids Will Talk

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $15. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Tools to help children open up and share, words to never use with children, power words and actions to get children to talk, eighteen tips for effective listening.

10 Keys to Success with Children

No More Tattling

No More Biting

Tender Times for Tots

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $33.00 Hours: 6
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $15 and cost of test; $18. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: Shaken baby syndrome, fun activities for children birth – 2 years, 12 tips for working with crying babies, understanding infants and toddlers and SIDS.

No More Tantrums

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $17.00 Hours: 3
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $8 and cost of test; $9. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This book will give you the answers to this important issue. You will receive practical strategies that you can use. Because each child is different, there are many strategies. Chose what works for each individual child.

167 Strategies for Excellence: Reach, Teach and Motivate Difficult and Defiant Children

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $42.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book and cost of test. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: The needs of children, the reasons children misbehave, positive discipline techniques, positive classroom management and how to prevent discipline problems before they happen.

No More Battles with Strong-Willed Kids

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $17.00 Hours: 3
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $8 and cost of test; $9. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Strong-willed children can grow into powerful leaders. They have leadership ability in how they manage to control the world around them. This book will give you strategies to help strong-willed children grow into their leadership roles – to be wise and caring leaders.

No More Hitting

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $17.00 Hours: 3
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book; $8 and cost of test; $9. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Anger is an emotion every child feels at some time. Because no single strategy works for each and every child, this book offers a range of ideas for you to pick and choose from. The goal is to help you have a classroom where there is no more hitting.

How to Handle the Hard-to-Handle Preschooler

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $23.00 Hours: 6
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This resource book provides early childhood educators with a comprehensive overview of the most common kinds of behavioral disorders and learning disabilities in children ages 2 to 5, with guidelines for meeting students’ needs within an inclusive environment. This ready to go guide is packed with hundreds of easy-to-implement strategies, tips, and techniques for managing behavioral disorders; from ADHA to Tourette syndrome.

How to Handle the Hard-to-Handle Parent

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $27.00 Hours: 6
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: This must-have resource helps educators work effectively with parents, even the most difficult ones, and deter problems before they happen. How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Parent helps develop specific skills for communicating with all parents, including parents who are angry, overprotective, or overbearing. It is packed with sample forms, letters, scenarios, and vignettes, plus techniques for involving families whose first language is not English.

No More Bullying

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $8.00 Hours: 3
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This is a must-have book for anyone who has ever had to handle young children that bully. Learn the number one thing to never do when a child bullies another child and receive solutions and strategies to end the bullying dilemma. (Geared for 12 months through 3 year olds.)

No More Disrespect: 50 Strategies to Teach Kids to Be Respectful

Sponsor: Appelbaum Training Institute
www.atiseminars.org
Contact Info: Janet Wright or Elma Simmons Phone: (281) 494-4876 Email: info@atiseminars.org
Cost: $8.00 Hours: 3
Registration Info: Price includes cost of book. Test must be taken in order to receive credit for completion/certificate. Hours will not be granted by Licensing without Certificate of Completion.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Children are entering preschool and school more and more disrespectful towards adults and their peers. They often show no respect for their teachers and do not listen when their teachers speak to them. Teachers play a vital role in helping children learn to be the best they can be. You can even make a difference for them! This book is packed with information and strategies to help you help them to be respectful in the classroom and to their peers.

Transportation Safety

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $15.00 Hours: 2
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: This course discusses what transportation is regulated by state child care licensing agencies; requirements for a facility's transportation plan; requirements regarding communication and documentation for relating to children's transportation; vehicle requirements, procedures, and equipment for children's transportation safety; how to select and use child safety seat systems; safety precautions relating to loading and unloading children from vehicles; guidelines for supervising children during transportation; safe staff/child ratios when transporting children; safe driving practices; and information that should be provided to parents relative to the facility's transportation policies and practices.

Imagination at Play: Pretend and Dramatic Play in Early Childhood

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $32.00 Hours: 6
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/2010
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: Play is vital to children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. This course explores ways to support children’s spontaneous imaginative play and creative thinking as well as ways to incorporate creative dramatics into early childhood programs.

Understanding Each Other: Communicating with Families, Staff, and Your Community

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $40.00 Hours: 9
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Leadership & Professional Development
Training Summary: Improve your verbal, written, and nonverbal language skills to ensure effective and positive communication with families, staff, and the community.

Early Childhood Stress: Serious Stress in Children’s Lives

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $28.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course examines issues and circumstances related to extraordinary stresses that many children face—a parent’s military deployment, serious illness and hospitalization, homelessness, and natural disasters—and children’s typical reactions and special needs related to such stresses. The course also presents strategies for helping children cope with serious stresses.

Witnesses to Violence: Helping Children Cope in a Violent World

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $32.00 Hours: 6
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course examines issues surrounding children witnessing violence: domestic violence, neighborhood and community violence, and violence in the news and entertainment media. Upon completion of this course, the student will have an understanding of typical ways that children are affected by and react to violence they witness. The student will know and be able to implement strategies for meeting children’s special needs that are related to witnessing violence.

Family Diversity

Everyone Welcome: Diversity in Early Childhood Programs

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin, Instructor Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $42.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Textbook: $42, Cost for Book Course only: $32. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. These prices are guaranteed through February 1, 2010.
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: Using the textbook Connecting Kids, this course explores ways to help children become more understanding, accepting, and inclusive in our increasingly diverse society. A large number of activities are included in the textbook that teach children useful connecting skills.

Let's Play Outdoors

Partnerships with Parents

Social-Emotional Development in Young Children

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $20.00 Hours: 3
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/11.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course discusses the basic goals of young children's social-emotional development, how early experiences shape this development, and ways in which adults can support children's healthy social-emotional development.

Visiting Families in Their Homes

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $125.00 Hours: 30
Registration Info: Part of Home Visitors CDA training set. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/11.
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: This course focuses on principles that guide home visiting programs; qualifications, characteristics, skills and techniques essential for successful home visitors; strategies to plan and manage an effective home visitor program; and professionalism and ethical practices for home visitors. This course uses the textbook Home Visiting: Procedures for Helping Families, 2nd Edition, by Barbara Hanna Wasik and Donna M. Bryant, which is included in the tuition for the course.

Observing, Recording and Assessing Children's Development

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $42.00 Hours: 10
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: Compares ways to gather information about children and explains why observing and recording children’s authentic activities produces the most valuable information. It discusses the purpose, presents information about children’s developmental path, temperament traits, intelligences, and learning modes. It explains how to plan and carry out observations and ways to use information to assess development, plan for ongoing learning experiences and ensure that the program is meeting children’s needs.

Safe Baby, Safe Child

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $28.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: This course explains what is meant by Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), how shaking affects babies and young children, signs of being shaken, risk factors for becoming a victim of SBS, and the most common circumstances that can prompt adults to shake babies and young children. It presents a variety of strategies to soothe crying babies and deal with young children’s difficult developmental phases. Includes the DVD “New York Loves Safe Babies” which covers SIDS, traumatic brain injury, and SBS.

Children with Special Needs: Autism Spectrum Disorder

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clariece Feagin Phone: (703) 338-9330 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $48.00 Hours: 16
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Textbook: $48, Cost for Book Course only: $34. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10. To register for course, contact CARE Courses by phone, mail, or email. P.O. Box 10526, McLean, VA 22102 800-685-7610 www.carecourses.com
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course discusses the characteristics associated with autism spectrum disorder, examines how children with autism learn, and presents strategies to help children with autism thrive in an inclusive classroom. The course is based on the book Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Clarissa Willis, published by Gryphon House Books.

Discovery and Exploration with Preschoolers

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clariece Feagin Phone: (703) 338-9330 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $48.00 Hours: 16
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Textbook: $48 Cost for Book Course only: $38. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10. www.carecourses.com
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course addresses the four phases of the learning cycle: awareness, exploration, inquiry and application. This course contains 16 delightful activities for young children that encourage curiosity and a lifetime appreciation for discovery and exploration. Based on the book Squishy, Squashy Sponges, this course covers cross-curricular activities in drama, art, literature, cooking and biology and follows the NAEYC guidelines for developmentally appropriate curriculum.

Hiring the Best

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $42.00 Hours: 10
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This course examines articles written by a number of experienced early childhood facility administrators which discuss the qualities that characterize ideal early childhood staff and the process of selecting staff who best fit the needs of each particular program. Staff selection processes discussed include interviewing and observing applicants in action in the classroom. The course concludes with an attorney's discussion of some important legal aspects of the selection process.

The Art of Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This course presents information on excellent care giving including functioning as a professional caregiver, working with parents, meeting children’s needs, helping children learn problem solving, and facilitating their social, emotional, and intellectual growth.

ADHD

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $42.00 Hours: 10
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This course discusses the definition of ADD and ADHD, the characteristics of children that cause them to be identified as such, and different ways to look at ADD and ADHD. This course also discusses positive ways to interact with overactive, impulsive, inattentive children, ways to guide children’s behavior and help them learn, and strategies for handling problems. It identifies and describes a number of strategies and therapies that are available for handling children as well.

Active or Hyperactive

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $64.00 Hours: 30
Registration Info: Cost for course book and Textbook: $64. Cost for Book course only: $50. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/09.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This course examines reasons behind many of children’s troublesome behaviors and presents strategies for interacting with and helping children whose activity level is excessive, including active alert children and those identified as ADD or ADHD. This course uses the text Living with the Active Alert Child.

After-School Programs

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $38.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course examines the elements of high-quality after-school programs and how to establish an atmosphere that meets children’s needs. The course presents strategies for dealing with cliques, bullying, disagreements and fights. It includes age-appropriate games and activities.

Child Care Administration

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $58.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Textbook: $58. Cost for Book Course only: $48. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This course explores the many facets of the job of early childhood facility administrator including personnel management, problem solving, and financial planning/management. The course uses the textbook The Human Side of Child Care Administration.

Caring for Children in Your Home

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This course will help the family day care provider view childcare as a profession and manage an effective program for children. The course covers health, nutrition, safety, and curriculum development. It includes sample forms for keeping children’s records.

Child Development and Guidance

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course examines the typical developmental characteristics of children from birth to 6 years of age; techniques of positive guidance; ways to help children develop a positive self-concept; strategies for dealing with behavior issues; and ways to manage routines, schedules, and transitions to ensure an effective program that meets children’s needs.

Child Development Through Play

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $42.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Textbook: $42, Cost for Book Course only: $32. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: Learn how play affects child development, influences on children’s play, and ways to encourage productive play for young children.

Conflict Resolution in Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $44.00 Hours: 12
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Textbook: $44, Cost for Book Course only: $32. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This course explores way that caregivers and teachers can help children grow into responsible, caring members of society. It presents effective ways to help children resolve conflicts and methods for teaching these concepts to very young children. It includes many fun, educational, and innovative activities to help children learn to get along with each other. This course includes 6 hours in observation and recording children’s behavior.

Creating Schedules and Routines

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $25.00 Hours: 4
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course examines ways to use schedules to manage days with young children more efficiently and how to ensure that arrival, toileting, clean-up, eating, resting and sleeping, dressing, and departure routines contribute to children’s positive development.

Children with Special Needs: Physical Disabilities

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $38.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: Textbook can be purchased for an additional $12. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: All children have needs; some have more specialized needs than others. This course presents ways to meet the needs of children with physical disabilities, help integrate them into an early childhood program, and help them develop and learn. Find more detailed information about this course on the website www.carecourses.com.

Discipline in Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Learn why children act in unacceptable ways, how to help them stop acting in those ways, and how to prevent many discipline problems. Course includes excellent techniques for positive guidance as well as strategies for discipline that should be avoided.

Day by Day with Toddlers

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $47.00 Hours: 15
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course covers curriculum planning for ages 12-24 months. It explores the nature, purpose, and components of an appropriate curriculum for toddlers and includes numerous activities to facilitate their learning and development.

Facilitating Staff Skill Development

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $46.00 Hours: 14
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This course examines the developmental stages of child care workers, traits of various temperament categories, and different cognitive and learning styles. It explores ways to use feedback effectively, give constructive criticism, as well as a wide variety of staff training techniques. This course is for directors and other supervisors who are responsible for staff development.

Great Beginnings

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $34.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This introductory course provides an overview of children’s developmental stages, age-appropriate activities, positive guidance and discipline, fostering children’s self-esteem, health and safety practices, positive interaction with children, supervision, and detection and reporting suspected child abuse and neglect.

Great Days with Kids

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $28.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: Learn to plan curriculum to promote young children’s development and make your days with children run more smoothly. The course discusses the elements of lesson planning and presents sample lesson plans.

Infants in Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course covers the basic elements of infant care, motor and cognitive development during the first year of life, social and behavioral issues, and how to play with infants to enhance their development. Find more detailed information about this course on the website www.carecourses.com.

Improving Staff Performance

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $42.00 Hours: 10
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This course explores sources of motivation, job-related satisfaction, and job-related frustration for child care workers. It discusses ways to stimulate staff creativity and ways to prevent burnout and help staff deal with stress. This course is designed for directors and supervisors who are responsible for staff supervision.

Infant Safety

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $15.00 Hours: 2
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10. This training can be taken to meet the Licensing requirements for SIDS.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: Learn to recognize and prevent shaken baby syndrome, understand infant brain development, and take precautions to prevent SIDS, Including an explanation of what SIDS is and what it isn't, myths about SIDS, risk factors associated with SIDS, what researchers have learned about SIDS, and communicating information regarding SIDS with parents.

Learning Centers

Language Development in Infants

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $38.00 Hours: 8
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course covers the beginnings of language development, milestones in language development during the first year of life, basic principles of child development and learning and how they apply to language development, and ways to promote infants’ language development. Find more detailed information on this course at the website www.carecourses.com.

Management for Caregivers

Managing Health and Safety in Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $44.00 Hours: 12
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: Provide a healthy and safe environment for young children. Course covers safe food handling, disease prevention, and recognizing and reporting child abuse. Find more detailed information on this course at the website www.carecourses.com.

Making Learning Fun

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: Course presents a wealth of tested and successful techniques for providing fun learning environments. From cooking projects to music and clay, obstacle courses to intergenerational programming, you will find enticing ideas for both outdoor and indoor excitement for the children in your care.

Money Management

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $80.00 Hours: 40
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Textbook: $80, Cost for Book Course only: $60. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: Course uses the textbook Managing Money: A Center Director’s Guide. This course examines tools and techniques for managing money in early childhood facilities including tables, charts, budgets, financial reports, and cash flows. Learn ways to avoid common money management mistakes,ways to ensure that facility’s financial management system is secure, efficient, and effective,ways to monitor a facility’s true enrollment, how to use financial reports to deal with financial problems and more.

Many Ways to Learn for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $44.00 Hours: 12
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course describes the skills and behaviors that indicate strength in each of the eight intelligences identified by Howard Gardner and the learning style that corresponds to each of the intelligences. Learn to plan developmentally appropriate curriculum for toddlers and preschoolers in order to facilitate their development of competence in each of the intelligences and ways to help children develop various skills and abilities using a variety of learning styles.

Nurturing Children’s Self-Esteem

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This course presents ways to help children develop a strong positive sense of their own worth and importance as individuals and feel confident of their ability to successfully meet life’s challenges – to persevere, take responsibility, achieve, be accountable for themselves, act responsibly toward others, and make a difference to their environment.

Nutrition for Young Children

Parents and Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: This course presents ways to develop and maintain a positive, productive relationship with parents and involve them in their children’s learning. The course includes a variety of sample forms to help in your interactions with parents.

Principles of Child Development and Learning

The Early Childhood Professional

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $48.00 Hours: 16
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Leadership & Professional Development
Training Summary: This course explores ways to become a more professional child care worker as it examines standards for high-quality child care and ways to show respect for diversity among children and families, develop congenial relationships with families and staff, and manage stress.

Preschoolers in Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course covers the physical, cognitive, language, emotional, and social development of three-, four-, and five-year-olds plus ways to facilitate their optimum development and keep them safe and healthy.

Sanitation for Disease Prevention

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $28.00 Hours: 5
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 1/1/08. NOTE: NV Licensing Regulations stipulate that Signs and Symptoms of Illness training be carried out in a classroom setting. This course cannot be taken to meet NV's initial training requirements for this course.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: This course covers the relationship between sanitation and disease prevention, where disease-causing germs thrive, sanitary hand-washing and diaper-changing procedures, procedures for keeping children’s space and equipment sanitary, sanitation procedures for food handling and food service areas.

Stress and Day Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $55.00 Hours: 25
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course will help caregivers learn to cope with different types of stress and prevent stress in the childcare facility. This course covers many different sources of stress including child abuse and poorly behaved children.

School-Age Children: Spatial Intelligence

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $25.00 Hours: 4
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course presents ways to develop children’s visual-spatial intelligence and meet the learning needs of spatially-oriented children.

Sun Safety

Toddlers in Child Care

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: Course covers toddlers’ development in physical, cognitive, language, emotional, and social domains and ways to meet toddlers’ needs and promote their optimal development. Course includes sections on toilet learning, age-appropriate toys and equipment, and age-appropriate activities. Find more detailed information on this course at the website www.carecourses.com.

Toilet Learning

Transitions and Other Troublesome Times

Understanding Children

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $50.00 Hours: 20
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: The 6 lessons in this introductory-level course present basic information on early childhood growth and development, including language development, methods of positive guidance, curriculum development, and teacher/child interaction. Additional information is available in the Course Catalog at www.carecourses.com.

The Workplace Environment

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $46.00 Hours: 14
Registration Info: This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This course presents ways to promote a pleasant, happy environment in the early childhood facility that will enhance staff effectiveness and children’s learning. It includes suggestions effective staff supervision, problem solving, and designing and implementing a fair and equitable compensation system. The course is designed for directors and other supervisors.

Basic Bookkeeping for Caregivers

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $120.00 Hours: 34
Registration Info: Modules 1-5, individual price Module 1: $32, individual price for Modules 2-5:$34. This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This course, presented in 5 modules, covers all aspects of cost-basis bookkeeping with examples and practice exercises.

Teaching Nonverbal Language Skills

Sponsor: CARE Courses
www.carecourses.com
Contact Info: Clairece Feagin Phone: (800) 685-7610 Email: Clairece@carecourses.com
Cost: $64.00 Hours: 30
Registration Info: Cost for Course Book and Text book: $64. Cost for Book Course only: $50. Textbooks are available in the bundle above and individually from The Care Courses Bookstore. .This price is guaranteed through 2/1/10.
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This course presents a variety of techniques to help children improve their nonverbal communication skills. This courses uses the text Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success.

Let Babies Be Babies: Helping Babies Learn

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Marige Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $111.00 Hours: 2.5
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: In this video developmentally appropriate practices for infant and toddler care are presented. Every interaction and experience with babies is important. By understanding and respecting the needs and interests of infants and toddlers and by creating opportunities and interesting environments, adults help babies learn. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Finding Quality Child Care

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $68.00 Hours: 2
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This program provides a comprehensive overview of high-quality child care program standards. The importance of provider qualifications, a statement of philososphy, an open door policy, and the child-to-adult ratio are discussed. Health care professionals review hygiene issues, immunization and describe what should be included in a child care facility's health policy. Licensing and accreditation are defined. This is a video-based distance learning course.

The Power of Play

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $84.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course outlines the many ways in which play affects the social, emotional and cognitive growth of children from birth through age eight, years that are crucial to their development. The video is organized in 5 segments to highlight the many ways play can enrich a child's life. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Taking Good Care of You: Training Series

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Elva Tamashiro Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: elva@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $190.00 Hours: 10
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: This 4 module series covers health and safety issues in child care while emphasizing the important role self-esteem plays in the healthy physical and emotional growth of young children. Includes modules: 1. controlling infectious diseases 2. keeping children well 3. managing the sick child 4. nourishing emotional growth. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Relationship Based Child Care for Babies & Toddlers - Secure Attachments

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $109.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Secure attachments. This video is designed to provide child care professionals with an understanding of the theory of attachment with linkages to research. The video explores the components of a secure attachment relationship and identifies the role of the professional in acheiving this. It also explores the kinds of behavior that indicate insecure attachment. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Relationship Based Child Care for Babies & Toddlers: Working toward Secure Attachments in Children

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $106.00 Hours: 2.5
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: The role of the professional is developing and maintaining secure attachment relationships with children is explored and developed. Practical considerations of primary caregiving are demonstrated and viewers fain an insight into how a primary caregiving system could work for them.

Welcoming All Children: Creating Inclusive Child Care

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $86.00 Hours: 2.5
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: Topics covered include the benefits of inclusive child care, how to prepare a program, creative strategies to make accomodations to meet the unique needs of a child, how to get help and supportive services for providing inclusive child care, and additional local and national resources. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Observing Young Children

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $74.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Leadership & Professional Development
Training Summary: This course is a useful orientation tool for anyone who does specific observation-related tasks with children as a regular part of their work. This video shows scenes of children in a variety of situations which the viewer is directed to observe. Following the observation, each example is discussed in terms of accuracy and objectivity. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Identifying Developmental Delays

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $189.00 Hours: 6
Core Knowledge Area: Leadership & Professional Development
Training Summary: The series presents real-life demonstrations of a wide range of developmental delays in young children including infants through preschool. Three videos are included in the series, 1. A World of Hope: Identifying Developmental Delays Ages 0-3, 2. Next Steps: Identifying Developmental Delays Ages 2-5, and 3. Talking to Parents. This is a video-based distance learning course.

The Discipline Wheel

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $78.00 Hours: 2
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This course introduces a four part strategy to help children cope with dozens of frustrations, conflicts, and strong feelings they experience on a daily basis. The 4 components of the Discipline Wheel are: 1. listen, 2. set limits, 3. give choices and 4. when-then (i.e. establishing positive consequences). This is a video-based distance learning course.

10 Things Every Child Needs

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $54.00 Hours: 2
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: This course explains how our earliest interactions with children influence their brain development and how they also help children develop social, emotional and intellectual skills. The program offers a simple 10-point checklist that parents, teachers and child care providers can follow to give children the best start in life. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Serving Biracial and Multi Ethnic Children and Their Families

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $54.00 Hours: 4
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: Complete with a guide and posters of diverse families, this course is comprised of training resources to increase awareness of biracial and bicultural children into their existing cultural curricula. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Let Babies Be Babies: Rethinking Infants and Toddlers

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $111.00 Hours: 2.5
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: This program is designed to encourage and challenge viewers to examine and rethink their own attitudes towards infant and toddler development. Reviews how babies have been traditionally viewed in the past, the importance of understanding and respecting development, and establishes an approach carried throughout the rest of the series. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Let Babies Be Babies: Keeping Babies Healthy and Safe

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $113.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: This course focuses on the physical component of health, ways to help caregivers, prevent the spread of common illnesses, and discuss ways to keep infants and toddlers safe in family and center based care. Prevention through awareness planning and action are the keys to a safe environment. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Let Babies Be Babies: Guiding the Journey to Independence

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $111.00 Hours: 2.5
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Children become socialized as they gradually understand and incorporate within themselves the social rules, expectations, and shared values that we live by. To do this, children need help from adults. This program looks at how adults can best guide behavior based on an understanding and respect for development. This is a video-based distance learning course.

The Tricycle Solution: Teachable Moments for Parents and Preschoolers

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $106.00 Hours: 2.5
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: This program viewers observe parents and teachers experiencing the spectrum of interactions and emotions that arise in the course of a school day. Commentary is provided by a school director, Effie Kuriloff, who practices a form of parent education that is both child and parent centered. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Relationship Based Child Care for Babies & Toddlers: Play That is Real

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $109.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This course examines how caregivers can promote play this is meaningful for toddlers by building on everyday experiences and routines in the child care setting. The video shows how staff can motivate children in everyday routines to create rich learning opportunities. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Relationship Based Child Care for Babies & Toddlers: Parent Partnerships

Sponsor: Child Development Media, Inc.
www.ChildDevelopmentMedia.com
Contact Info: Margie Wagner Phone: (800) 405-8942 Email: info@childdevelopmentmedia.com
Cost: $109.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Family & Community Relationships
Training Summary: This course focuses on the importance of a high-quality relationship between caregivers and the parent in achieving optimal outcomes for children in child care settings. The challenges facing child care professionals are also explored; a range of strategies for facilitating good communication are featured. This is a video-based distance learning course.

Ouch - That Hurts

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $38.00 Hours: 6
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: Establishing a biting poilcy in your toddler program. This class is designed to give caregivers who work with toddlers insight as to why toddlers bite and how to minimize the occurrences in their program. Includes a 60 page textbook.

Block Play in the Early Learning Setting

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $15.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: Enhance the offerings of blocks in your child care setting and expand your understanding of concepts that can be introduced through their use. Learn about the importance of blocks in the classroom and how to manage their use.

Good For Children - Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $48.00 Hours: 6
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This workshop is designed to familiarize providers with the phrase “Developmentally Appropriate Practices”, explain the theory behind it and how providers can integrate this into their program.

Positive Guidance for Child Care Providers

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $48.00 Hours: 6
Core Knowledge Area: Positive Interactions and Guidance
Training Summary: Learn how the essentials of quality care and the power of encouragement can help encourage positive behaviors in your program.

Using Snack Time for Nutrition Education

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 6
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: This course provides early childhood educators with important nutritional information regarding young children. It also provides caregivers with the opportunity to communicate this information to the parents in their programs.

Parent Communication Matters

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $15.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This training is designed to encourage providers to communicate with parents in a variety of methods. Addresses and supports NAEYC standards regarding positive relationships with families.

The Who, What & Why of Dramatic Play

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 6
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This training is designed to encourage providers to increase the options provided to the children through dramatic play as well as give the providers an understanding of it’s developmental importance.

Eliminating the Stress of Parent Teacher Conferences

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $30.00 Hours: 6
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This training is designed to provide teachers and administrators with tools to conduct parent conferences that benefit the child through cooperative efforts of parents and teachers.

Sensational Science Stations

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $15.00 Hours: 3
Core Knowledge Area: Environment & Curriculum
Training Summary: This training is designed to give teachers/providers with resources and ideas of how to create or enrich their science stations so children in their program learn a variety of skills.

Right From the Start: Early Brain Development

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $20.00 Hours: 4
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: This session is designed to give caregivers information to support the theory of early brain development.

Hiring a Quality Team

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $12.00 Hours: 2
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This training is designed to provide center directors and manager with the skills and information needed to hire quality teachers for their program.

Mentoring Staff to Promote Positive Performance

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $12.00 Hours: 2
Core Knowledge Area: Leadership & Professional Development
Training Summary: This training is designed to provide center directors and managers with a jump-start into mentoring their staff – reducing frustration and opening lines of communication.

Motivating Staff Requires More than Just Candy!

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $12.00 Hours: 2
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This training is designed to provide center directors and managers with the skills and information need to motivate the existing staff in their program.

Evaluating Staff to Promote Success

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $12.00 Hours: 2
Core Knowledge Area: Management & Administration
Training Summary: This training is designed to provide center directors and managers with the skills and information needed to evaluate staff performance in their program.

Social and Emotional Development - Why We Do What We Do

Sponsor: ECE Training
www.ecetraining.net
Contact Info: Michelle Hancock Phone: (707) 339-0488 Email: mhancock@ecetraining.net
Cost: $60.00 Hours: 10
Core Knowledge Area: Human Growth and Development
Training Summary: Participants will explore the importance of attachment, pro-social behavior, self-regulation and family-centered care, as well as how to explain/justify these concepts to parents.

Healthy Childcare February / March 2010 Issue

Sponsor: Healthy Child Care.Net

Contact Info: Kathryn Breighner Phone: (877) 258-6178
Cost: $22.95 Hours: 1
Registration Info: Cost listed is for 1 year (6-issue) subscription to Healthy Childcare magazine. Trainings are free to Healthy Childcare Subscribers.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: Topics to be covered in this issue include the following: going green in childcare, immunizations, food insecurity and cleaning and sanitizing.

Healthy Childcare April/May 2010 Issue

Sponsor: Healthy Child Care.Net

Contact Info: Kathryn Breighner Phone: (877) 258-6178
Cost: $22.95 Hours: 1
Registration Info: Cost listed is for 1 year (6-issue) subscription to Healthy Childcare magazine. Trainings are free to Healthy Childcare Subscribers.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: Topics to be covered in this issue include the following: woodworking, mold & moisture in childcare, nutrition activities and the first aid kit.

Healthy Childcare Dec 09/ Jan 10 Issue

Sponsor: Healthy Child Care.Net

Contact Info: Kathryn Breighner Phone: (877) 258-6178
Cost: $22.95 Hours: 1
Registration Info: Cost listed is for 1 year (6-issue) subscription to Healthy Childcare magazine. Trainings are free to Healthy Childcare Subscribers.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: Topics to be covered in this issue include the following: Safe family style meals, food safety, hygiene, supervision. Improving the health of homeless children, health concerns, program responsibilities, teaching children about touch, type of touches and much more.

Child Care CourseWare - Basic Center Training Package

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Sponsor: National Child Care Systems
www.nationalchildcaresystems.com
Contact Info: Liezal Dozier Phone: (800) 477-8975 Email: liezaldozier@nationalchildcaresystems.com
Cost: $79.00 Hours: 12
Registration Info: $79 is the purchase price for a CD-Rom that contains 16 individual child care training courses (12 of which have been approved by the Registry for child care training hours) and corresponding tests. In order to obtain child care training hours for any of the courses, each individual must complete the test and submit $12 (per test). If a grade of 70% or better is earned, a certificate will be mailed to the individual. Up to 12 hours can be earned if all courses are taken.
Core Knowledge Area: Leadership & Professional Development
Training Summary: 12 courses approved for child care training hours. Click on the link above to view a summary of the individual courses approved for hours. Please note that 4 of the courses included on the CD-Rom CANNOT be taken for child care training hours in Nevada: "Childhood Illness, Choking and First Aid Review", "Infectious Disease, Safety and Hygiene", "Abuse: Elements and Indicators", and "Abuse: Disclosure and Impact". These courses must be taken in person, in Nevada.

Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting: A Self-Study Guide for People Working with Children

Sponsor: UNR Cooperative Extension
http://www.unce.unr.edu/publications/search/details.asp?searchby=titlesearch&searchtext=child+abuse+recognition&reporting=Sea
Contact Info: Jackie Reilly Phone: (775) 784-4848 Email: reillyj@unce.unr.edu
Cost: $10.00 Hours: 2
Registration Info: NOTE: Effective June 1, 2010 there will be a $10 charge for certificates of completion of the Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting: A Self-Study Guide for People Working with Children, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Special Publication 09-11 (or any previous versions of the publication). The fee is to recover the cost of providing the certificates. If you have any questions, please contact Jackie Reilly via phone or email.
Core Knowledge Area: Health, Nutrition & Safety
Training Summary: The UNCE Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting: A Self-Study Guide for People Working with Children is an easy to understand five-chapter curriculum designed for caregivers, youth volunteers or leaders to complete on their own. The guide provides information regarding how to recognize and report suspicions of suspected child abuse, where and how to report concerns and legal issues related to reporting concerns.