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What comes to mind when you imagine an infant or toddler? What has been your experience working with an infant or toddler? How can an increased awareness of theories and concepts of early childhood development impact your work and your perceptions of infancy and toddlerhood? How can you best support parents of infants or toddlers?
This training series aims to reflect on your experiences with infants and toddlers to cultivate a foundational awareness of the interconnections of the social-emotional, cognitive, physical, and language development of young children. With this awareness, this training will also focus on strategies to engage families with young children using a strengths-based, non-judgmental, and age-appropriate approach to foster security, trust, exploration, identity, and separation.
This training series also focuses on the sequence of infancy brain development (0 to 12 months) and toddlerhood brain development (12 to 36 months); the impact relationships and attachment has on infant and toddler development; the lens of the parent, child, home visitor/family support specialist through different stages of development; and the influence culture has on development.
**Please Note: This series is comprised of 5 sessions that can be taken separately or all together.* However ALL 5 must be completed in order to receive ANY IL EI credits!**
The virtual training includes facilitated discussion, asynchronous work, peer collaboration, and reflection, as well as various learning.
Part 1: Interpersonal Bases of Development (2 hours): In this session, participants will be examining the impact that experiences and relationships have on early childhood development using supporting examples, theories, or case studies.
Part 2: Environmental and Sociocultural Perspective on Development (2 hours): This session explores the impact culture has on early childhood development. Participants will reflect upon how identity and development are defined by successful and ongoing participation in cultural practices and circumstances of our community.
Part 3: Biological Bases of Development (2 hours): In session 3, participants will examine the biological bases of infant and toddler development. Participants will explore brain factors that are predetermined and those that can be formed and adjusted with experiences, relationships, environment, and culture.
Part 4: Infancy Milestones (4 hours- 2 asynchronous & 2 live): For the first half of session 4, participants will engage in an asynchronous review of Infancy (newborn to 1 year old) milestones via an interactive workbook. In the second half of the session, participants will engage in a live session where they apply concepts of the domains of development to foster infant growth and support the parent/caregiver-infant relationship.
Part 5: Toddlerhood Milestones (4 hours- 2 asynchronous & 2 live): For the first half of session 5, participants will engage in an asynchronous review of Toddlerhood (12 to 36 months) milestones via an interactive workbook. In the second half of the session, participants will engage in a live session where they apply concepts of the domains of development to foster toddler growth and support the parent/caregiver toddler relationship.
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