SELF STUDY DVD s YWCA Child Care Solutions

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1 SELF STUDY DVD s YWCA Child Care Solutions Avoiding Child Care Burnout CDA Content: 6 Helping the early childhood provider to identify symptoms and signs of burn-out. It also provides strategies and suggestions that help reduce the risk of burn-out. Caring For Children: An Introduction to the Child Care Profession Caring for Children is a series that shares interviews and visits center-based and family home care facilities to illustrate the responsibilities and characteristics of childcare professionals who must nurture the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs of a child. Module 1: Becoming a Teacher of Young Children CDA Content: 6 Looks at the characteristics and traits of a successful child care teacher of early childhood education. Viewers meet teachers, providers, resource specialists, administrators and early childhood educators. These professionals reflect on what it takes to be a successful child care provider and what the role of the teacher is in providing quality child care. Module 2: Caring for Infants in Child Care Homes & Centers CDA Content: 8 Examination of the desired qualities of the caregivers for infants. Demonstrates how daily routines are important opportunities for learning. Defines how infant s language development begins at birth. And finally, how to create and maintain a partnership with parents that includes easing of the transition between home and day care. Module 3: Caring for Toddlers in Child Care Homes & Centers CDA Content: 8 Examines the ways toddlers learn and how you can develop a program to help foster positive growth. There is discussion of strategies to promote independence, self-sufficiency and social skills. Further discussion includes ways to encourage appropriate developmental growth during routine and active times. Finally,an examination of the role of modeling by a provider as an important tool in promoting development. Module 4: Caring for Preschoolers in Child Care Homes & Centers CDA Content: 8 Assists viewers in understanding the meaning of developmentally appropriate practice for preschoolers. Recognizing the importance of play and cooperative learning experiences for preschool children. Promoting language development and music & movement experiences for preschoolers.

2 Module 5: Caring for School-Agers in Child Care Homes & Centers CDA Content: 8 What does a quality setting offer the school-age child? Discussion includes the developmental needs of children ages six through twelve. And finally, examines the role of the school-age teacher or provider working with school-age children and their parents. Model 6: Caring for Mixed Age Groups in Child Care Homes & Centers CDA Content: 8 unavailable at this time Module 7: Preparing Environments for Children CDA Content: 1 Environments should be based on the children s needs and flexible enough for children developing at different rates. Environments should be hands on to ensure that the children are learning through experiences. Keep options with the environments open to ensure very few restrictions are put on the child s learning. Caring for Infants & Toddlers Five 30-minute programs for child care teachers, family day care providers and parents about providing quality care for your youngest citizens. Part #1: Living, Loving Learning CDA Content: 8 The importance of a quality infant and toddler program and its components are examined. It indicates some of the challenges and rewards of caring for such a unique age group. Part #2: Getting to Know You CDA Content: 3 Emphasizing the connection between the development of language and communication along with social interactions and relationships in infant and toddlers. It states the importance of close relationships and strong attachments among younger children with both their parents and caregivers. Part #3: Follow the Leader CDA Content: 4 Open and honest communication between the caregivers and parents to ensure effective child care strategies are encouraged. The importance of individualizing care for infants and toddlers and the significance of managing transitions is discussed. Part #4: Health, Safety and Nutrition CDA Content: 1 Introduction to the building blocks of quality care for infants and toddlers. It emphasizes the importance of planning for the health and safety of infants and toddlers and strategies for assuring such an environment. Part #5: Empowering Places and Spaces CDA Content: 1 Identification of the elements and importance of preparing an appropriate environment for infants and toddlers. It explains several strategies for accommodating these younger children within a mixed age group.

3 Caring for Our Children A 6-part series created by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This series is based on the National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of Home Child Care Programs Part #1: The Standards and You CDA Content: 5 These standards are to be of a useful guidance tool for child care providers. It also reviews the importance of maintaining the health of both the child care provider and the children in care. Part #2: Basic Care Giving CDA Content: 1 Reviewing the basics of a safe, healthy well run child care program. It covers a variety of topics such as daily activities, hygiene, health and safety and discipline. Part #3: Ready for Anything CDA Content: 1 The section deals with preparing the provider, children and environment for any unexpected emergencies or mishaps. It covers everything from medical situations to animal/pet interactions. Part #4: Setting up for Healthy and Safe Care CDA Content: 1 The caregiver s role in ensuring that the day care environment is free of potential hazards is emphasized. It also expresses that a healthy and safe environment promotes healthy and typical development in children. Part #5: Keeping it in Shape CDA Content: 1 The importance of maintaining a safe and healthy environment is essential. It emphasizes monthly safety checks for play areas, smoke detectors and all equipment and materials handled by and near the children. Part #6: Illness in Childcare CDA Content: 1 Dealing with the specifics of ill children in the daycare is an ongoing concern. Specific points include the importance of having a child s medical files, emergency contacts and an open communication line with the parents/guardians. Child Care and Children with Special Needs A two part module that is worth 4 hours of credit. It deals with the basics of understanding special needs to inclusion and mainstreaming. It stresses the positive impacts of including all children in a day care setting. Part #1: Inclusion Works CDA Content: 3 Part #2: Working together in include everyone CDA Content: 3 The Child Care Collection Unit #1: Cooing, Crying, Cuddling CDA Content: 8 Delve into the connection between infant brain development and cooing, crying and cuddling.

4 Unit #2: Painting a Positive Picture CDA Content: 3 Usage of proactive behavior management and guidance as opposed to other disciplinary options. Unit #3: Daily Dilemmas CDA Content: 3 Dealing with the day to day activities that may lead to misbehavior if not properly preplanned. Unit #4: Tying it All Together CDA Content: 5 Learn strategies for building and maintaining a successful child care business. Unit #5: The B.U.S.I.N.E.S.S of Child Care CDA Content: 5 Discussion includes daily operations and issues that affect child care businesses. Unit #6: Developmentally Appropriate Days CDA Content: 8 Stresses the importance of developmentally appropriate practice and how to implement this theory into your child care program. Unit #7: Make a Difference, Report Child Care Abuse and Neglect! CDA Content: 1 Discussion about the different types of child abuse, along with the signs and signals and how to properly report and deal with this difficult subject. Unit #8: Before and After School Creative Experiences CDA Content: 5 Examples and strategies are given on how to operate a quality school-age program. From daily program operations to developmentally appropriate practice/curriculum. The Child Care Professional Series Unit #1: Understanding and Using Assessment Effectively CDA Content: 7 Learn how to recognize children s individual traits and how to consider these factors when selecting, using and interpreting assessment. Also, learn how to choose assessment tools and how these tools benefit the children in your care. Unit #2: Enhancing Cognitive Development CDA Content: 2 Children build upon the knowledge they are born with and learn how to think and reason as they interact with their surroundings. This dynamic growth process is cognitive development. Learn how to effectively promote the cognitive development of young children. Unit #3: Enhancing Social and Emotional Development CDA Content: 3 Learn how to help children develop socially and emotionally by providing them with experiences that nurture self-expression, problem solving, self-confidence, understanding and acceptance. Unit #4: Enhancing Physical Development CDA Content: 8

5 Create opportunities that encourage children to explore and learn about their world using their physical, motor and sensory capabilities. Discover landmarks that each child will move through in small and large motor development. Unit #5: Maintaining a Safe, Healthy, Nurturing Environment CDA Content: 1 Caregivers must create and maintain a learning environment that encourage exploration, but at the same time are safe, healthy places for children. Learn more about safety, health and nutrition. Unit #6: Partnerships in Building for the Future CDA Content: 4 Involving parents in your program is beneficial to everyone. Creating a partnership with parents and families includes support for all involved. Unit #7: Professionalism, Organization and Management: Putting it All Together CDA Content: 5 Caring for children is a complex job. As you learn and grow as a professional, you become better able to provide high quality care and service to children and their families. The Child Care Worker: Recipes for Success CDA Content: 6 Several facets of the positive, quality child care provider and program are explored. Caregivers and Parents Support: Early Literacy Development Series Unit #1: Sharing Language CDA Content: 2 Discussion of the importance of language interaction between child care providers, educators and parents and young children. Unit #2: Scribbling, Drawing and Writing CDA Content: 2 Explaining the importance of scribbling, drawing and eventually writing in the strong language development of children. Unit #3: Extending Stories: Dramatic Play, Art, Music & More CDA Content: 2 Exploration of how dramatic play, art and music effect language. Unit #4: Exploring Math CDA Content: 2 Helping young children develop a firm foundation for mathematical understandings sets the stage for a lifelong love of math. Unit #5: Exploring Science CDA Content: 2 The importance of science in everyday life. The skills such as measuring, comparing, observing and classifying are related to their scientific benefits.

6 The First Step-Supporting Early Language Development Series Unit #1: Beginning the Language Connection CDA Content: 2 Understanding the critical tenet that language is the foundation for all academic and social skills in children. Unit #2: Reading the Child s Message CDA Content: 2 Infants and toddlers are very much communicating through sounds, facial expressions and gestures. Reading & understanding these cues are essential in establishing relationships. Unit #3: Talking with Young Children CDA Content: 2 Scenarios explain how young children build their language skills and understanding of these new skills before they can actually use words, signs or other means to express themselves clearly. Unit #4: Building Conversations CDA Content: 2 Children need to be involved in conversations long before they have words! Even infants will participate and benefit through the interactions between themselves and the provider. Observing Young Children: Learning to Look, Looking to Learn CDA Content: 7 Techniques and suggestions given for observing children to maximize learning and social interactions in a group setting. Positive Discipline: A Creative Alternative for Parents & Teachers CDA Content: 3 There are indeed positive disciplining alternatives for both parents and providers to use. Numerous scenarios & examples are given to assist parents and providers. Preventing Discipline Problems Preventing Discipline Problems is a video-based training series designed to help teachers, students and others who work with young children, grasp the basic principles of positive discipline. It consists of three units, each focusing on a core issue of guidance and discipline. Each unit has a Teaching and Practice section. Both sections must be completed. Unit #1: Building a Prevention Strategy- Getting Proactive, Getting Results CDA Content: 3 Shows how a focus on preventing discipline problems helps create more positive and productive classrooms. Unit #2: Supporting Transitions, Easing the Trouble Spots CDA Content: 3 Focuses in on the most disruptive times of the day. Transitions are often a time when teachers see more acting out and children dissolving into tears. Smooth transitions require the same kind of planning as any other element of the curriculum. Unit #3: Nurturing Responsible Behavior-A Foundation for Guidance CDA Content: 3

7 Using the strategy taught in this unit, we help children discover how much they can manage on their own and how they can get ideas and help from their friends. This prevention strategy focuses on changing the way we respond when children come to us again and again throughout the day, saying I want.., or I need.., or Help me with this. Reframing Discipline Reframing Discipline consists of three units, each focusing on a core issue of guidance and discipline. Each unit has a Teaching video which uses real classroom footage to teach core concepts and to demonstrate the techniques and strategies that successful teachers use to work with three-to-eight year olds in guidance situations. Included is a Practice video section with three exercises that allow viewers to interact with the material in the Teaching video. Unit #1: Doing the Groundwork-From Stopping Misbehavior to Teaching Skills CDA Content: 3 Unit #1 helps viewers see how our attitudes about discipline shape the way we work with children. It provides opportunities for self-examination and reflection and presents core beliefs of experienced teachers who use positive guidance to work with children s misbehavior instead of against it. Unit #2: Connecting with Every Child-Key to Successful Discipline CDA Content: 3 The key to positive discipline is the relationship we have with a child. Demonstration of how changing our relationship with a child who misbehaves is often the most effective intervention. It teaches the technique of acknowledging children and shows how these efforts can help build strong connections that motivate change. Unit #3: Understanding Difficult Behavior-Why Does He Do It CDA Content: 3 Behavior is communication-expressed behavior has meaning. This video demonstrates that teachers who learn to read misbehavior can discover the messages behind it. It presents three underlying messages that much of the misbehavior we see is actually communicating. And it demonstrates how teachers who learn to read misbehavior can intervene more sensitively and effectively. Safe Active Play: A Guide to Avoiding Play Area Hazards CDA Content: 1 A guide to avoiding play area hazards. Includes tips on making a checklist & guidelines for your program. The School Age Connection CDA Content: 3 Providers must emphasize the importance of developing and nurturing a school-aged child s positive selfimage and how after school programs can implement appropriate practices. Super Groups The Super Group series looks at the ways young children learn together. Unit #1: Come Join In! Guidelines for Successful Group Times CDA Content: 2 Group time, or circle time. It s part of the day in all early childhood settings. When group time goes well, children are involved and learning and teachers feel successful. This module focuses on three key

8 guidelines used to plan and lead successful group times: choosing appropriate activities, creating a safe environment and making activities interactive. Unit #2: Give Yourself A Hand! Guidance Techniques for Successful Group Times /CDA: 2 Most teachers remember their early group times experiences-days when, despite their best efforts, things fell apart, children were distracted and then disruptive. Here viewers see that most guidance problems can be avoided when teachers plan carefully- and when they understand the needs of their particular group Unit #3: Once Upon a Time: Skills for Reading Aloud at Group Time CDA Content: 2 Reading stories is one of the key group time activities in all early childhood settings. And teachers want their groups to be dynamic and memorable. But it takes a number of skills to become an effective, captivating reader. In this video, we watch teachers who keep children hanging on every word. These teachers view reading aloud as an experience from which children can learn many things-perhaps the most important, learning to love books and becoming excited about learning to read. Using Learning through Observation This is a two part module worth 4 hours of credit. The unit contains real-life child development related scenarios (vignettes) and expert discussion and observations. Part #1 CDA Content: 6 Part #2 CDA Content: 7 The Whole Child: A Guide to the First Five Years A 13 part series that provides essential information about children s physical, emotional, social, creative and cognitive development. They offer techniques to use in difficult situations; and show how to help children develop to their fullest potential. Unit #1: Handling Routines- It s the Little Things CDA Content: 1 The importance of a well-ordered and predictable environment. Unit #2: Development of Self- By Leaps and Bounds CDA Content: 2 Physical development and appropriate developmental activities, good health practices and environmental safety. Unit #3: Infants in Group Care-Babies are Children Too CDA Content: 8 The special concerns when caring for infants in groups and the importance of providing nurturing care. Unit #4: Fostering Mental Health in Young Children-Dealing with Feelings CDA Content: 3 Activities that promote emotional health in family relations, self-expression and dealing with stress. Unit #5: Developing Self-Esteem in Young Children-I m Glad I m Me CDA Content: 3 Recognizing children s accomplishments and offering opportunities for individual choice.

9 Unit #6: Communicating with Families- Listening to Families CDA Content: 4 Ways to help families deal with everyday problems and life crises. Unit #7: Working with Exceptional Children-Everybody s Special CDA Content: 2 Working with children who have special educational needs. Unit #8: Developing Social Competence in Young Children-Getting Along Together CDA Content:3 Childhood special development and ways to enhance a child s social competence. Unit #9: Helping Young Children Establish Self-Discipline and Self Control CDA Content: 3 Guiding children in finding acceptable ways to express their aggressive feelings. Unit #10: Providing Cross-Cultural, Non-Sexist Education: Respecting Diversity CDA Content: 3 How prejudice develops and how to respect cultural differences. Unit #11: Fostering Creativity-Creativity and Play CDA Content: 2 The relationship of creativity to self-worth and self-expression. Unit #12: Fostering the Development of Language Skills and Emergent Literacy CDA Content: 2 Language acquisition and methods for increasing language competence Unit #13: Developing Thinking and Reasoning Skills-Growing Minds CDA Content: 8 Two approaches to developing strong mental ability in young children.