Health and Safety

Infant/Toddler

School Age

Family Child Care

• Certified Infant/Child CPR and First Aid (6 hours)
  
• Don’t Go Outside, You’ll Catch a Cold and Other Myths Your Grandma Told You –Infectious Disease Control (2 hours)
  • Diapering, Handwashing, Communicable diseases, Illness policies, Daily health checks, Sanitizing, Food safety
    
• Better Safe Than Sorry-Preventing Childhood Injuries (2 hours)
  • Safety checklists, Playground safety, Rules and Regulations, Childproofing, Fire safety, Water safety
    
• Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse (2 hours)
  • Georgia Law on mandated reporting, Dispelling myths about abusers, Reporting policies and procedures, Types of abuse, Signs and symptoms of abuse
    
• Play it S.A.F.E. – Playground Safety (2 hours)
  • Supervision, Age appropriate design, Surfacing, Equipment maintenance
    
• Food for Thought and Health – Nutrition (4 hours)
  • Learn fun ways to help children learn good habits for healthy eating right from the beginning. Meal Patterns Guides and recipes will be shared along with MyPyramid, the new food pyramid from the USDA.
    

• A Trip to Toddler Town – Infant/Toddler Environments (2 hours) ECE-1
  • Spaces & Furnishings, Room design, Display, Comfort level, Convenience, Flexibility, Child size
    
• “Can We Talk?” Communicating with Non-verbal Children (2 hours) ECE-1
  • 10 strategies for enhancing infant/toddler communication in the classroom
    
• Hey Baby, Look What I Can Do!! – Discoveries of Infancy (2 hours) ECE-1
  • How infants learn - Learning schemes, Cause and effect, Imitation, Spatial relations, Object permanence, Use of tools
    
• Flexible, Feisty, and Fearful – Temperaments of Young Children (2 hours) ECE-3
  • Temperament vs. Personality, Observation, Temperamental traits, Strategies for dealing with the three temperament styles
    
• Here’s Your Sign – Baby Signs (2 hours) ECE-1
  • Helping infants and toddlers communicate their needs and wants in order to reduce stress and frustration.

Preschool Back to Top

• Cultural Diversity and the Holidays – Make-it, Take-it (2 hour) ECE-6
  • Help children expand the world around them; learn recipes and crafts to be inclusive during the holiday season.
     
• Get Ready to Read – Screening tool for 4 year olds. (2 hour) ECE-1
  • The 3 domains of early literacy development (print knowledge, emergent writing, linguistic awareness).  Includes Get Ready to Read screening tool and activity cards to build pre-literacy skills.

School Age Back to Top

• “School’s Over…Now What??” - Enhancing the After-School Program (2 hours) SAC-1
  • Quality Programs, Creating developmentally appropriate activities, Making learning fun (homework), Service-learning
    
• Positive Guidance for School Age (2 hours) SAC-3
  • Caregiving styles, Causes of behavior, Prevention techniques, Strategies for handling difficult behavior

• Taxes and Record Keeping for Family Child Care (3 hours) ECE-6
  • 7 rules to record keeping, Tracking revenue and expenses, Tax deductions, Time/Space percentage

All Ages Back to Top

• The Outdoor Classroom (2hours) ECE-1
  • Prop boxes, gardening, nature art, group games, science projects
    
• Spanish in the Classroom…It’s as easy as uno, dos, tres (2 hours) ECE-1
  • Cultural diversity, songs, labeling items in the classroom, common phrases
    
• Positive Guidance for 0-5 (2 hours) ECE-3
  • Caregiving styles, Causes of behavior, Prevention techniques, Strategies for handling difficult behavior
    
• Learning to Read with Soda Pop & French Fries- Literacy through Environmental Print (2 hours) ECE-1
  • Menus, street signs, magazines- using environmental print in learning centers
    

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