Staff Development Day for Early Care and Education Professionals
Saturday, October 12, 7:45 a.m.-2 p.m.
Lakeview Senior Center, 20 Lake Road, Irvine
This one-day professional development conference for individuals working with young children (0-5 years) offered four one-hour workshop sessions, each with seven workshop topics to choose from. Please click on workshop topics below to view handouts and resources.
- Behavior 101: Addressing Challenging Behaviors in Preschool Classrooms (PowerPoint); Behavior Support Planning Chart
- Bringing Literature to Life Through Storytelling and Performance
- Build Children’s Math Concepts and Develop 21st Century Skills Through Play and Exploration
- Cultural Competence Awareness: a Critical Skill for Childhood Professionals (PowerPoint); Sociocultural Awareness Exercise; Cultural Competence Conceptual Framework
- Dramatic Play in a Preschool Classroom
- Feel all the Feels
- Get 'Em Ready for Kindergarten
- Got Speech? BEST: Tools for Increasing Communications
- Heading Difficult Behaviors Off at the Pass
- How to Support Emotionally Intelligent Kids
- Inclusion: What It Is – What It Is Not!
- Inspire Your Student to Become Makers, “Tinkerers” and Inventors Through STEAM
- Magical Moments - Discovering Secrets of Quality Learning and Teaching of Young Children (PowerPoint); The Five Love Languages Profile Quiz; Tucker Turtle book
- Making Sense of Mindset: Why "Good Job" is Bad News (PowerPoint); Getting a Picture of Mindset
- Mindfulness Games
- Open-Ended Play: Experiential Training
- Play is Science
- Scientific Method with Preschoolers
- Self Care for the Caregiver
- Sing, Play, Bounce and Wiggle
- Social Skills: The “Who”, “Why” and “What” but Most Important the “HOW”
- Story Builders: Child Development and Neuroplasticity in Education
- Supporting Outdoor and Nature Based PLAY
- Try a Calm Down Sandwich
- Understanding Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PowerPoint); Orange County Community Resources
- Welcome to Holland (PowerPoint); Welcome to Holland (1 page description)
- Working Out the Wiggles (PowerPoint); How Big is My Problem?
Click here to view the program.
For more information, call 949-724-6632 or email the Child Care Coordination Office.