Date: December 20, 2019
Location: United Way for Greater Austin
2000 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd,
Time Frame: 8:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
8:00-8:30 a.m. Training Topic: Introductions and professional networking
Facilitators: Brandi Ramirez & Kelly Hickman, Austin ISD Child Care Supervisors
Objectives
Child care workers will:
· Share school strategies that have benefited program
· Discuss January Training opportunities
8:30-11:00 a.m. Training Topic: The ABC’s of Self Care
Presenter: Marti Burris, Texas Workforce Commission: Child Care Solutions
Learning Objectives
Child care workers will learn:
· Describe stress and list at least three of its physical and mental effects
· Identify the symptoms and causes of stress in a child care setting
· List techniques for stress management and stress relief
11:00-12:00 p.m. Lunch - bring your own
11:30-1:30 p.m. Training Topic: STEAM, Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Math
Presenter: Heather Pate, Texas Workforce Commission: Child Care Solutions
Learning objectives
Child care workers will learn:
· developmentally appropriate ways to integrate science and technology into curriculum;
· interesting and unique ways to present objects, materials and events for infants and toddlers to explore;
· developmentally appropriate ways to integrate science and technology vocabulary into the daily schedule;
· how to incorporate scientific inquiry and thoughtful observations into the daily schedule; and
· developmentally appropriate ways to include simple investigations into curriculum.
1:30-2:30 p.m. Training Topic: Infant Toddler Literacy
Presenter: Jeanine Dolan, United Way for Greater Austin
Learning Objectives
Child care workers will learn:
· lessons to use in the classroom to enhance early literacy skills;
· group and individual activities that support the emergence of reading and writing skills; and
· how to create lessons that engage children in planned and spontaneous reading opportunities.
