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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Infant Training Modules | These modules from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning focus on promoting the social and emotional competence of very young children. Topics include understanding social-emotional development and behavior, building and sustaining relationships, and supporting social-emotional development. Materials include PowerPoints, handouts, video clips, and a trainer's guide. | Document |
| Infant/Toddler Materials Guide | The choices for designing a quality childcare program for young children can be overwhelming for a childcare professional, especially when working with a limited budget. This guide has been created to help you to design a high-quality environment for young infants (under 9 months), mobile infants (6-18 months), and older infants (16-36 months), while making the best choices for your budget. Purchasing the correct materials is not sufficient; supervision and interaction with interested adults is necessary for children to make full use of them. Through intentional teaching, materials can be used for both child-guided experiences and adult-guided experiences. Materials need to be: interesting to children, sturdy, age appropriate, offer variety and choice, and be arranged in such a way as to encourage independence and creativity | Document |
| Infants and Toddlers: A Video Collection | Featuring a collection of 200 short video clips, this site will provide users with a perfect window into the world of infants and toddlers and their daily experiences in child care. Users will see the wide range of tasks and roles that early childhood professionals take on each day. Finally, many of the clips highlight the importance of the partnerships that form between parents and the educators who care for their young children. Clips may be searched by criteria (e.g., develop-mental domain, activity language development, or educator strategies, like following the child's lead), age of the children, or setting. It is also possible to find videos by doing a key word search | Website |
| Is-Daryeelidda Shaqaalaha Caruurta Yaryar Daryeesha Waxna Barta (Self-Care for Early Care and Education Professionals) | Warqad talobixin ah oo istiraatiijiyado is-daryeelid ah oo wax ku ool ah loogu talagalay daryeelka hore iyo xirfadlayaasha waxbarashada. Tip sheet with practical self-care strategies for early care and education professionals. | Tipsheet |
| Lactancia materna y programas de cuidado infantil (Breastfeeding and Child Care Programs) | Esta hoja de consejos explica los beneficios de la lactancia materna y proporciona pautas para el almacenamiento de la leche materna.This tip sheet explains the benefits of breast feeding as well as provides breast milk storage guidelines. | Tipsheet |
| Living with a Disability: The Family Perspective | How understanding the family perspective can help early childhood educators demonstrate an increased level of empathy and sensitivity about the impact of a child’s disability on parents and family members. | Tipsheet |
| Motor Development of Infants--What to Expect and When to be Concerned (Part 1) | In the first part of our series on Infant and Toddler Development Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel discuss critical milestones in an infant’s fine and gross motor development. Our hosts discuss common things to look for at the stages of 3 months through 1 year and highlight some concerns that would require further investigation. We will also talk about the ways child care providers and parents can encourage physical development at this important age. | Podcast |
| National School Directories | K12 Academics has the largest database of Schools in the United States. When contacting the school of your choice be sure to mention you found them on K12 Academics! | Website |
| Office of Child Care Spanish Language Glossary | The Office of Child Care Spanish Language Glossary provides a consistent terminology database for translating child care materials from English into Spanish. Because Spanish is a rich and diverse language, it is often a challenge to find neutral terms that most Spanish speakers in the United States understand. Therefore, in some cases, several terms are included in the same entry to accommodate regional differences in usage. | Document |
| Orientación para educadores (Coaching for Educators) | Cómo el uso del entrenamiento como herramienta de desarrollo profesional beneficia a los educadores, administradores, niños y familias de cuidado infantil temprano.How the use of coaching as a professional development tool benefits early child care educators, administrators, children, and families. | Tipsheet |
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