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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Office of Child Care Spanish Language Glossary | The Office of Child Care Spanish Language Glossary provides a consistent terminology database for translating child care materials from English into Spanish. Because Spanish is a rich and diverse language, it is often a challenge to find neutral terms that most Spanish speakers in the United States understand. Therefore, in some cases, several terms are included in the same entry to accommodate regional differences in usage. | Document |
| Orientación para educadores (Coaching for Educators) | Cómo el uso del entrenamiento como herramienta de desarrollo profesional beneficia a los educadores, administradores, niños y familias de cuidado infantil temprano. How the use of coaching as a professional development tool benefits early child care educators, administrators, children, and families. | Tipsheet |
| Outdoor Learning | Outdoor learning is beneficial for the health and wellbeing of both children and caregivers. Make the most of your "outdoor classroom" with these tips. | Tipsheet |
| Overcoming Play Challenges Through Play Partners | How to support the development of play and social interaction skills using a play partnering approach. | Tipsheet |
| Pautas para el uso de elementos de presión profunda y ponderados en programas para la primera infancia (Guidelines for Use of Deep Pressure and Weighted Items in Early Childhood Programs) | La presión táctil profunda es una forma de entrada sensorial táctil que tiene un efecto relajante, calmante y organizador sobre el sistema nervioso. Se puede proporcionar sujetándolo firmemente, abrazándolo, apretando y usando artículos pesados. La presión táctil profunda puede ser beneficiosa para las personas con altos niveles de ansiedad o con niveles elevados de excitación. | Tipsheet |
| Pets in the Family Child Care Setting | Guidelines, precautions, and tips for providers with pets in the FCC to ensure all children, adults, and animals are healthy and safe. | Tipsheet |
| Planning for Winter Emergencies | Programs in areas that experience extreme cold should have a plan for handling winter emergencies. Explore tips [from Head Start Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center - ECLKC] your program can use to prepare for emergencies such as frostbite, hypothermia, and loss of power. | Website |
| Play Activities to Encourage Motor Development in Child Care Child Care | Play is crucial to the development of children's gross and fine motor skills. Through play, children practice and perfect control and coordination of large body movements, as well as small movements of hands and fingers. Child care providers can support young children's motor development by planning play activities that provide children with regular opportunities to move their bodies. | Website |
| Play--Play Skills are Developmental Too: Part One | In this podcast, we look at children’s development from infant stages through older preschool to explore what types of play children should typically be engaged in at different ages. Play is both developmental and learned so children need our help in acquiring skills that help them move from stage to stage. We will set the foundation for talking about some of the challenges children may face in their play. | Podcast |
| Play-Based Activities That Build Reading Readiness | "Preschool teachers can use these activities," from Amanda Morin at Edutopia Magazine, "to promote six early reading skills even as the kids enjoy themselves." | Website |
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