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Materials and assistance for childcare professionals, and those they serve, including info modules, tip sheets, documents, helpful URLs, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Why Play? | Play is and always has been an important factor in enabling each individual to develop to his or her optimum potential. Play experiences are essential to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth. Through play a child uses his creativity while developing his imagination, dexterity, physical, cognitive, and emotional strength. | Website |
| Wilder Child Guidance Center - NW Branch | The Wilder Child Guidance Center NW Branch site has descriptions of Wilder's Youth, older adults, community and neighborhood, affordable housing, cross-culture support, anti-violence, and welfare to work programs. There is a very handy intrasite search engine, volunteer opportunities, consulting, a newspaper, research center, and other publications available on-line. | Website |
| Working with Children Who are Exceptionally Bright or Gifted | What is meant by the terms exceptionally bright or gifted? Children who are exceptionally bright or gifted have talents, abilities and strengths in one or more domains of development that are more advanced than what is expected for their chronological age. Being exceptionally bright or gifted is more than being academically intelligent. Each child is unique and will differ individually as to the talents and strengths exhibited in their cognitive, speech/language, physical and social emotional development. This self-study course focuses on how to support the growth, development and learning of children who are exceptionally bright or gifted. Knowledge and Competency Framework Area - I: Child Development and Learning CDA Content Area - VIII: Principles of Child Development and Learning This course is accessible from a mobile device. For optimal performance, viewing from a computer or tablet is highly recommended. For ten clock hours on your Learning Record, please register and pay online at Develop. Then, complete a 500 word reflection paper and submit this document with your reflection. Please note: You have access to this document as view only. To enable editing, download the document. Click "file" then "download as" in the upper left-hand corner of this screen. This will give you the option to open the document as a Word doc on your own computer. Then, you can complete the information and email it to: credit@inclusivechildcare.org. *Disregard any directions regarding a final quiz. The only learning assessment needed is the reflection paper. | Course |
| Xoojinta Xiriirka Aas aasiga ah ee Caruurta Lagu Hayyo Xanaanada iyo Barnaamiijta Waxbarashada (Attachment in Early Care and Education Programs) | Sababtoo ah cilaaqaadyadu waa udub dhexaadka horumarka iyo barashada, daryeelka hore, iyo bixiyeyaasha waxbarashadu waxay door muhiim ah ka ciyaaraan nolosha carruurta ay la shaqeeyaan. Xaashidan tilmaanta ahi waxay daboolaysaa sida loo abuuro xiriirro tayo leh carruurta aad daryeesho. Because relationships are at the core of development and learning, early care, and education providers play a critical role in the lives of the children with whom they work. This tip sheet covers how to establish quality relationships with the children in your care. | Tipsheet |
| ‘Intentional’ Teaching Has Big Impact on Preschoolers | The instructional practices of preschool teachers may have the largest effect on young children’s social and academic skills, according to a new review of research on several measures of the quality of early childhood education. | Document |
| ‘Sesame Street’ welcomes a Muppet in foster care, the latest addition to its inclusive cast | There’s a new face on Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind the show, has welcomed Karli, a Muppet in foster care, as well as her “for-now” parents, Dalia and Clem. All three Muppets appear in videos posted online as part of an initiative to provide free resources to caregivers navigating difficult issues, such as family homelessness, foster care and trauma." | Document |
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