The Bess Choice! – Caring for U.
Early Childhood Education workshops and seminars are often designed to assist preschool teachers in their work. Few are created to meet the needs of caregivers of infants, toddler and “two-year-olds.” The Bess Choice! - Teaching U. understands that there are issues specific to the youngest children in child-care and therefore has developed a set of programs to address those needs.
Caring for U. is a program designed to educate and support Infant and Toddler Caregivers. The objectives of Caring for U. are: to assist caregivers in understanding very young children; to provide instruction and insight into the different stages of infant, waddler, toddler and Two Year- Old development; and, to help caregivers make plans that will make the early care experience fun and progressive and maximize the child’s growth and development.
To this end, caregivers can attend either a Caring for U. Workshop or Seminar starting this fall. Please check EVENTS for specific program offerings as well as dates, times and locations.
Please note: Any of the workshops listed above can be offered at your own program’s location so the entire staff can learn as “ONE”.
Contact Cindy for details.
Caring for U. Workshops: (ninety-minute programs)
These are just some of the topics that will be offered as workshops in the coming months:
• The Importance of a Nurturing Environment:
Compassion and Care
• Building Bridges with Parents of Infants and
Toddlers
• Attachment Issues in Very Young Children
• Surviving Separations and Transitions
• Making Senses of Language Development in the
Early Years
• Creating a Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers-
Let’s Have Fun!
Caring for U. Seminars: (a three hour program)
Sometimes it is so easy to underestimate a child’s capabilities. To adults, children appear so young and inexperienced. They seem so vulnerable and tentative when learning new skills or adjusting to new situations. However, they are tremendously accomplished learners. In order to fully recognize a child’s level of mastery, and the potential he or she has for growth and development, we must consider each child from a developmental perspective.
Expectations – Development in the Very Early Years
(Child Development - Birth to Three Years)
More learning and adaptation takes place during the first three years of life than at any other point in the human life span. During infancy, the first year of life, the foundation for subsequent development is set. Motor development, formation of rudimentary social skills, the acquisition and organization of language and the foundations for emotional growth all begin to blossom and unfold. During the second year of life, the toddler continues to bloom. He discovers himself, engages in his newly forming relationships and begins to explore the larger social world. Factors such as separation anxiety, parent/child attachment, language acquisition and play as a means of learning, directly affect a child’s growth and development. Knowing what to expect can make all the difference when working with these wonderful little people.
Understanding Development from Birth to Three years
I recommended that caregivers and teachers be well-versed in typical child development. If you know what to expect, you can create a program suited to the children in your care. To that end, I have created a three and one half hour seminar that corresponds to the development of children under thirty-six months of age.