Early childhood leaders juggle many demands: meeting community needs, partnering with families, and supporting staff. What if one set of skills could help with all of it? Enter our latest on-demand offering!
Employ storytelling skills in structuring professional development courses. During this two-hour self-paced course, Course Writers look at instructional design through the lens of telling a story.
Focusing on three big ideas ("math mantras"), participants in this course will learn to build young children's understanding of the preschool math concepts they need most. Learn to integrate early math into existing routines with interactive content.
(on demand) This course provides an overview of the Six Principles of Quality Coaching developed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. These principles are used by observers to assess the quality of the coaching relationship in Parent Aware.
Children need more than just academic knowledge to succeed and thrive in school and in life. They also need executive function skills. Executive function skills are life skills. They include using self-control, setting goals, and multitasking.
Participants will discover the details of Minnesota's Knowledge and Competencies Framework for Trainers. They will identify the benefits of self-assessment and observation and improvement tools.
*REQUIRED FOR TRAINER MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION. Minnesota Trainer Orientation 2 will help you define the requirements of the trainer agreement and what it means to be an approved trainer in Minnesota.
*REQUIRED FOR TRAINER MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION. Minnesota Trainer Orientation 1 will help you to identify the components of the Minnesota professional development system as it relates to training and trainers.