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Understanding Infant and Toddler Curriculum Webinar

Join us to explore aspects of early care and education for infants and toddlers, focusing on curriculum, caregiver roles, developmentally appropriate practices, observation, routines, environment, and lesson planning.

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Understanding Infant and Toddler Curriculum Webinar

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  1. WELCOME TO THE WEBINAR • We will be starting soon. Please be sure your audio is set up following the steps outlined below. • Click on Tools • Click on Audio • Click on Audio Set Up Wizard • Follow the Instructions

  2. CURRICULUM for Infants and Toddlers? YES!

  3. OBJECTIVES • Explain what is meant by curriculum for infants and toddlers • Describe the aspects of early care and education that are a part of an infant/toddler curriculum • Define what is meant by developmentally appropriate curricula for infants/toddlers • Describe the development and implantation of individualized curriculum for an infant and toddler

  4. CURRICULUM • What infants and toddler experience • What they learn from those experiences • How they learn from those experiences

  5. CAREGIVER’S ROLE • Observe and reflect • Support the learning process through • Interactions • Relationships • Environment

  6. QUOTE “Experts agree that the primary need of infants and toddlers is emotional connection. Relationships are the key and emotional development is the critical domain.” ~ Lloyd-Jones

  7. DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE (DAP) • What is known about… • Child development • Strengths and needs of the child • Cultural contexts

  8. SIMPLISTIC VIEW… a cycle

  9. REALISTIC VIEW… overlaps

  10. OBSERVATION OF DEVELOPMENT • What skills has the child mastered in: • Communication or language? • Cognition? • Motor development? • Social skills? • Emotional development/self-regulation?

  11. OBSERVATION • Frustration or challenge? • Engage attention? • React to objects and people?

  12. QUOTE “Documentation is the intentional recording of daily experiences in the infant/toddler environment in order to capture and communicate children’s learning and development.” ~ WestEd

  13. ROUTINES • Arrival and departure • Meals and snacks • Diapering/toileting • Napping

  14. ENVIRONMENT • Safety • Health • Comfort • Convenient • Child-sized • Flexibility • Movement • Choice

  15. SCENARIO

  16. Picking a Curriculum • Focus on relationship • Primary caregiving • Development in fall domains • Stages of infancy • Individualized

  17. Picking a Curriculum (con’t) • Safety • Process • Family focus • Theory and research • Learning Standards

  18. IT WEEKLY LESSON PLAN • Cognitive Development • Language & Literacy • Book • Song • Creative Expression • Social, Emotional & Personal Development • Gross Motor Development • Fine Motor Development

  19. INFANT LESSON PLAN • Cognitive Development • Language Development • Social Development • Emotional Development • Fine Motor Development • Cognitive Development • Language Development • Social Development • Emotional Development • Fine Motor Development

  20. DAILY SHEET

  21. EVALUATION

  22. PD CERTIFICATE • This Professional Development session will appear on your PD History on the PA Key website within 2-4 weeks. • You will be able to print your certificate after we have received the Reflection Tool and Survey Monkey evaluation.

  23. SURVEY MONKEY • Please complete the Reflection Tool and email it to me at slcohick@stepcorp.org within 5 business days. • Additionally, please complete the following evaluation on Survey Monkey to provide feedback regarding this session. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DZGKXF3

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