Thoughts on a Popular Product
Here’s a link to a thought-provoking article from Jeff Johnson of Explorations Early Learning, where he offers opinions (and lots of source links) regarding the popular “Your Baby Can Read” series.
http://www.jeffajohnson.com/2012/02/selling-snake-oil-to-fearful-parents.html
Our favorite passage? If you want your child to become a life long learner, talk to them (early and often), put books in their hands (early and often), read to them (early and often), and let them see you reading (early and often).
Child Care Training Course Highlight: Fun Snacks with A, C, and I
Course: Fun Snacks With A, C, and I
We have passed through another holiday season filled with the excitement of sights and sounds of festivities accompanied by delicious food & drink, and Oh those delicious desserts and candies! Yum!
Children indulge in all of this good cheer just as much as adults do. And for that reason, as we begin the new year, now is the time to think healthy snacking again; getting the children back on track.
This course is designed to help you to think and to plan healthy snacks that are also appetizing. (Remember, you’re competing with chocolate!)
Here is a brief reminder of what Vitamins A & C and Iron do for the body:
- Vitamin A: Necessary for normal vision, immune function, reproduction*
- Vitamin C: Antioxidant that protects against cell damage, boosts the immune system, forms* collagen in the body
- Iron: Key component of red blood cells and many enzymes*
This course, “Fun Snacks With A, C, and I,” is taught by Lori Rittel; is a beginning level course; and offers two (2) credit hours.
*Descriptions taken from Webmd.com.
“If It Sucks, Say So”
Link to an interesting article by Miles City favorite Jeff Johnson, writing on why your end-of-training evaluations are so important:
New Feature!
Beginning in January, 2012, we will be highlighting one course each month from www.childcaretraining.org, Montana’s online distance learning platform. We’d like to encourage all practitioners to check out the website, as it is a great way to meet your professional development needs!
Here’s an introduction to get you started. For more information, please call Sharon Humphrey at DEAP, 406.234.6034 and she’ll walk you through the process, or you can call CCT.org directly at: 406.728.6446.
“Professional Development for Early Childhood Practitioners”
Introduction
The Child Care Training organization is an online education tool for Early Childhood Practitioners to gain professional development training hours when it is convenient for them.
Create a CCT User Account
Creating a user account allows you access to additional information on each of the courses listed as well as enrollment. There is no fee associated with creating a user account.
Course Selection
After creating a user account and logging in, review the available courses by going to the Course Catalog. Select a course that interests you by clicking on the title – the title is an active link. The Course information page opens and displays:
- Instructor’s name(s)
- Cost
- Credit Hours
- Level of Training
- Course Description
- Course Author
Located at the bottom of the Course information page is the payment button “Send payment via Paypal.” If this is the course you would like to take, click the payment button to enroll.
Paying for the Course
Although the CCT site has Paypal as its payment processing agent, you do not need to have a Paypal account. You can use a debit card or credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express) to secure your enrollment.
There is also a “Bill Me Later” option which is a Paypal service for Paypal account holders.
If you decide this is not the course for you, you can click the “Back to Course Catalog” button, located just below the payment button, to return to the list of available courses.
Enrolled Courses
Once enrolled in a course, courses are self-paced and you have 90 days in which to complete it.
Your CCT Account
As new courses are added to the CCT Course Catalog, you will receive a courtesy email letting you know. Your CCT user account keeps track of the courses you have taken.
NEW Distance Learning Opportunities!
From the Early Childhood Project:
NEW Distance Learning Options Approved
We have approved some new training options for practitioners in Montana. Some of the PBS TeacherLine courses are now accepted as training hours for both licensing and the Practitioner Registry annual training hours. First go to the ECP website and click on Training Approval and scroll down to Distance Learning to see specific training that has been approved. The PBS website, http://www.pbs.org/teacherline, will give you course descriptions.
The other newly approved training is through the National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC). There are 2 online family child care training courses. Each course is worth 45 clock hours. Both classes are stand-alone and may be taken one at a time or at the same time. The titles of the training are
Teaching and Learning in Family Child Care and Creating Safe and Healthy Family Child Care Environments.
To read more about these two options and to register visit http://nafcc.org and click on Training Institute at the top of the page. Select “Family Child Care Training” to access information.
Submit your certificates of completion to the ECP so we can add them to your Professional Development Record. We are excited to be offering more Distance Learning options for practitioners. We also love to receive feedback so please feel free to let us know how you liked these offerings. Montana is always monitoring the quality and value of the trainings that we approve so your feed back is important to us. Enjoy!
ECP’s Fall 2011 News Sheet – Fall 2011 News
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LIKE our YouTube video (visit YouTube.com and search for DEAPCCES to find our channel) - we could win Jeff back for another round!
New Immunization Form
Providers – please start using the new immunization form here: Immunizations.
It does not have to be on blue paper or on cardstock, but it is being requested that you start using these forms now.
Call us at 234-6034 with questions~
Introducing…
DEAP Child Care Education & Support is pleased to introduce Professional Development Memberships! For $50, you’ll receive a membership card, which entitles you to ANY* training or professional development event sponsored by us between November 1, 2011 and September 30, 2012! This means you can pay once, and attend any event of your choosing for the rest of the year – conferences included!
Just call Sharon or Gail at DEAP CCES at 406-234-6034 for information or to purchase your membership! Remember, the event must be sponsored by DEAP CCES!
*Excluded events include the Certified Preschool Course and Infant/Toddler Course.
New Site Feature
We’ve added a new feature to this site! Under the Pages category, just click “Ask An Expert.” Your early childhood question – no matter what is is – will be answered in the best way possible!
