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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 |
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| Part 1: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Infants and Toddlers | Listen as our guest, Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul, talks about one of her passions, supporting play in young children. Dr. Starks shares that play is relationship based and your environment matters. How can you align your space to foster early social emotional connection through play? Join us as we explore this important topic. | Podcast |
| Part 2: Supporting Infants and Toddlers through Extended Separations and Reunions | In this second part of our discussion, we are joined again by CICC Coaching Manager, Beth Menninga. This segment focuses on extended separations and reunions with infants and toddlers. We discuss military deployment, divorce/break up or split households, work travel, incarceration, foster care, hospitalization, immigration related separations, teacher leaves, and change of classroom or care setting. | Podcast |
| Part 2: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Preschoolers | Join in our second part of a discussion on the importance of play with Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul. We discuss the fact that play is a developmental need and that all children show us what they need through play. Quality play is encouraged through the supports, prompts, activities, and experiences that we provide in the early childhood setting. Listen as Dr. Starks encourages us all to play! | Podcast |
| Pautas para el uso de elementos de presión profunda y ponderados en programas para la primera infancia (Guidelines for Use of Deep Pressure and Weighted Items in Early Childhood Programs) | La presión táctil profunda es una forma de entrada sensorial táctil que tiene un efecto relajante, calmante y organizador sobre el sistema nervioso. Se puede proporcionar sujetándolo firmemente, abrazándolo, apretando y usando artículos pesados. La presión táctil profunda puede ser beneficiosa para las personas con altos niveles de ansiedad o con niveles elevados de excitación. | Tipsheet |
| Pets in the Family Child Care Setting | Guidelines, precautions, and tips for providers with pets in the FCC to ensure all children, adults, and animals are healthy and safe. | Tipsheet |
| Planning for Winter Emergencies | Programs in areas that experience extreme cold should have a plan for handling winter emergencies. Explore tips [from Head Start Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center - ECLKC] your program can use to prepare for emergencies such as frostbite, hypothermia, and loss of power. | Website |
| Play Activities to Encourage Motor Development in Child Care | Play is crucial to the development of children's gross and fine motor skills. Through play, children practice and perfect control and coordination of large body movements, as well as small movements of hands and fingers. Child care providers can support young children's motor development by planning play activities that provide children with regular opportunities to move their bodies. | Website |
| Play in Kindergarten - MN Department of Education | Lifelong learning begins with play. Play uses exploration, imagination, and inquiry to develop cognitive and social-emotional skills and the confidence to engage in new experiences. Play is a valuable and evidence-based teaching practice for all early learning environments, including kindergarten and beyond. | Document |
| Play--Play Skills are Developmental Too: Part One | In this podcast, we look at children’s development from infant stages through older preschool to explore what types of play children should typically be engaged in at different ages. Play is both developmental and learned so children need our help in acquiring skills that help them move from stage to stage. We will set the foundation for talking about some of the challenges children may face in their play. | Podcast |
| Play-Based Activities That Build Reading Readiness | "Preschool teachers can use these activities," from Amanda Morin at Edutopia Magazine, "to promote six early reading skills even as the kids enjoy themselves." | Website |
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