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| Parents’ Prescription: Talk, Read, and Sing | Just before parents leave the hospital with their newborn for the first time, doctors go through a list of discharge instructions, including guidelines for how to keep their baby healthy and safe. As families return to pediatricians for regular wellness checks, there is one topic that many pediatricians never address, yet one physician-scientist says should get top billing. | |
| Part 1: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Routine Separations and Reunions | Listen as former CICC Coaching Manager, author, and Early Childhood Advocate Beth Menninga joins Inclusion Matters and shares key practices to support our youngest learners through common daily separations and reunions. | Podcast |
| Part 1: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Infants and Toddlers | Listen as our guest, Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul, talks about one of her passions, supporting play in young children. Dr. Starks shares that play is relationship based and your environment matters. How can you align your space to foster early social emotional connection through play? Join us as we explore this important topic. | Podcast |
| Part 2: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Extended Separations and Reunions | In this second part of our discussion, former CICC Coaching Manager, author, and Early Childhood Advocate Beth Menninga returns to share insights on extended separations and reunions with infants and toddlers. We discuss military deployment, divorce/break up or split households, work travel, incarceration, foster care, hospitalization, immigration related separations, teacher leaves, and change of classroom or care setting. | Podcast |
| Part 2: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Preschoolers | Join in our second part of a discussion on the importance of play with Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul. We discuss the fact that play is a developmental need and that all children show us what they need through play. Quality play is encouraged through the supports, prompts, activities, and experiences that we provide in the early childhood setting. Listen as Dr. Starks encourages us all to play! | Podcast |
| PATHWAYS OF EXPOSURE TO POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CHEMICALS | During the 2009 legislative session, the Toxic Free Kids Act was passed and signed into law by the governor. This legislation requires the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to create two lists of chemicals: one list called “Chemicals of High Concern” and one called “Priority Chemicals.”The Toxic Free Kids (TFK) program is housed in the Environmental Surveillance and Assessment Section within the Environmental Health Division and supports the MDH mission to protect, maintain, and improve the health of all Minnesotans.The Toxic Free Kids program has created a brief factsheet explaining toxic chemical exposures. It is available in English, Hmong, Somali, and Spanish. | |
| Planning for the Transition to Kindergarten: Why it Matters and how to Support Success | The transition to kindergarten is a time that presents changing demands, expectations, and supports for children and their families. When children experience discontinuities between preschool and kindergarten, they may be at greater risk for academic failure and social adjustment problems. Thus, building and implementing a seamless kindergarten transition can make a significant difference for children's early education experience. | Document |
| Play | This self-study highlights the value and importance of play for all children in promoting opportunities to learn, practice and master skills in the areas of cognition, gross and fine motor development, speech and language development and social emotional development.Knowledge and Competency Framework Area - II.A: Creating Positive Learning Experiences (5.0 hr) and II.E: Promoting Creative Development (5.0 hr)CDA Content Area - II: Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development 🔊This course includes Audio and 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 |
| Play and Creativity Using Music at Home | This tip sheet covers the many ways parents and family members can promote play and creativity through music at home. | Tipsheet |
| Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting | In this video from the Center of the Developing Child at Harvard University, "learn more about how play can foster children’s resilience to hardship, and how the complex interactions involved when children play help build their brains." |
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