Learning Centers and Activities that Promote Critical Thinking Skills in Preschool Children $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Learning Centers and Activities that Promote Critical Thinking Skills in Preschool Children Developing learning centers, lessons, and activities that support critical thinking skills in young children keeps them actively engaged and increases positive behaviors. Teaching meta-cognition skills, problem-solving skills, and independent thinking... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Learning to Move then Moving to Learn This training is designed to give early childhood professionals specific, fun, gross motor ideas that they can use to support children’s development. These gross motor ideas and suggestions help connect the dots that link movement, brain activity,... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Let's Move: Creating Engaged Learners Through Physical Activity Physical activity is very important in early childhood. It can help students deal with increased stress, obesity, improve cognitive function for academic work, decrease discipline challenges, and increase student engagement. It also leads to a healthier... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Literacy in Play Most preschool classrooms have a play center, but few have literacy-enriched play centers where children develop oral language skills, build vocabulary, and practice invented spelling. In this workshop, we will share examples of literacy-rich play... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Making Interactions with Children Count How teachers interact with children directly impacts behaviors including helping children develop feelings of competence which greatly influences their motivation and willingness to undertake challenging tasks. Quality interactions include intentional... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
More Than Just Reading a Book Reading books with children is one of the big joys of working with young children. Watching children's faces as the story develops and children are wrapped in the story along with the rhythm and magic of the language of each book reinforces the... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Open Classroom Time Having interest areas that capture children's curiosity and keep them actively engaged during open classroom time not only extends learning times but will lesson behavior problems. Intentional planning and facilitating effective areas that have authentic... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Putting the Interest in Interest Areas This training analyzes the importance of play and interest centers in children’s learning. Participants will explore and compare ways to make various interest centers engaging for children and examine the connections between playing board games and... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Science is a Blast! Inquiry science keeps children actively engaged in learning and discovery! This training will investigate ways to implement more science activities into daily programs, as well as connect inquiry science to early learning and development standards, as... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
STEAM Up Your Class Explore and experience steam activities and see how using the activities supports vocabulary acquisition and language in young children. Analyze how teaching children how to plan activities and then reflect on the play promotes language development... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Teaching in Small Groups Concept development of math & science understandings is more effective for preschool learners when it is presented in small groups. This professional development session will look at the value of using small group teaching, ways to support the... $30.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Teaching Strategies and Resources to Support Standards This training session focuses on how teaching strategies and resources using the project approach support learning dispositions and standards. Participants will examine and experience how investigations and field work support approaches to learning and... $30.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Using a Project Approach This training discusses the value of doing the Project Approach with children. Participants of this training will be able to observe and analyze project studies, as well as connect the project approach to Standards. Courses must be taken within the... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Using Children's Literature to Support Art and Science Experiences Want to keep children actively engaged and inspired? Want to make the art area and science/discovery area places where children want to go? The focus of this training is to analyze how process art and open-ended science experiences are connected and how... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
Yoga For Preschools Yoga for Preschool is an introductory course for early childhood educators who would like to add basic yoga to their classrooms. Offering yoga in preschool gives children a positive outlet for their physical energy. Yoga also counteracts stress and gives... $20.95 Add to Cart Case Options
