Overview

CCCRT's consultants provide training and workshops on-site at The Creative Pre-School. Trainees can receive hands-on experiences with typical and atypical children in a full-inclusion, developmentally appropriate program. We also offer the same training/workshops at your location.

The training experiences cover the following areas of interest:

• Quality programming for infants and toddlers
• Play and its importance in the development of young children
• Assessing children's development through their play
• Purchasing play materials and setting up a developmental environment for children ages 2 months through kindergarten
• Writing developmentally appropriate lesson plans for young children
• Developmentally appropriate behavior management techniques for parents and groups
• Conflict resolution strategies for adults and young children
• Food preparation for young children
• Scaffolding children's development within the context of play
• Providing an inclusive, developmentally-appropriate environment for young children
• Mentor experiences for staff in training

Training/Workshop Topics

Current workshop topics include (but are not limited to) to the following:

Play & Its Importance in the Lives of Young Children

• Play Overview
• Play & the Child
• Dramatic Play
• Construction Play
• Emergent Literacy & School Readiness
• Mildred Parten’s Developmental Definitions for Social Participation
• Scaffolding Children's Play

Play Organization & Environments

• Counting Play Spaces
• Planning for Fluid Play Opportunities
• Selecting Developmentally Appropriate Play Materials
• Playgrounds: Designing Out-Door Play Spaces

Understanding the Developmental Stages of Play

• Observation Scale for Stages of Children’s Block Constructions
• Observation Scale for Stages of Children’s Art Products
• Observation Scale for Stages of Children’s Bead Stringing
• Observation Scale for Stages of Children's Emergent Writing
• Observation Scale for Children's Stages of Cutting
• Observation Scale for Children's Dramatic Play

Assessment of Young Children

• Developmental, Play-Based Evaluation
• Developmental Implementation of IEP Goals
• Portfolio & Anecdotal Recording

Inclusion

• Typical & Atypical Child Development
• Implementation of Full Inclusive Programming
• Supporting & Empowering Families
• Designing & Implementing a Full-Inclusion Program for Children Birth through Kindergarten

Behavior Management &Conflict Resolution

• Conflict Resolution
• Staff Development
• Adult-to-Child & Child-to-Child Communication
• Developmentally Appropriate Behavior Management for the Home & Group Care Setting

CCCRT consultants have been conducting workshops for the past 30 years. They have spoken to a wide range of professionals and parents
with audiences ranging
from 10 to 1000.

"Just wanted you to know
that your training was absolutely phenomenal.
It is the best training
that I have ever attended."