Promoting Open-Ended Play Experiences for Toddlers
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description:
Toddlers meet the world with curiosity and wonder. Join us for this IN-PERSON workshop as we discover ways to create an environment and play opportunities to support their natural curiosity.
CLASS Dimensions:
- Toddler: Facilitation of Learning and Development
This training will be held in person at Center For Child And Family Services located at 739 Thimble Shoals Blvd Suite 400, Newport News, VA 23606
How to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rce-gpz0oE9OICwt0XpU1oVe00U75nbaq
Let Me Move, See Me Learn!
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description:
As infants and toddlers grow and change, they need safe environments that offer a variety of opportunities for exploration, play, and discovery. This IN-PERSON workshop will provide ideas and strategies for creating environments that provide choices, are familiar and stable, invite freedom to move, are appropriately challenging, and enhance learning and development.
CLASS Dimensions:
- Infant: Facilitated Exploration
- Toddler: Facilitation of Learning and Development
This training will be held in person at Center For Child And Family Services located at 739 Thimble Shoals Blvd Suite 400, Newport News, VA 23606
How to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtceuuqD0vEtQ4lnnfY4llNH5HPUGjStB4
Discovering the Possibilities of Play!
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description:
This IN-PERSON session will provide information on the importance of play and how it affects the healthy growth and development of infants and toddlers. Participants will learn to identify the types and stages of play and how young children learn about themselves and the world around them through play. Ideas and strategies for early care providers to use in planning appropriate activities and spaces for infant and toddler play that are conducive to learning will be provided.
CLASS Dimensions:
- Infant: Facilitated Exploration
- Toddler: Facilitation of Learning and Development
This training will be held in person at Center For Child And Family Services located at 739 Thimble Shoals Blvd Suite 400, Newport News, VA 23606
How to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlce2gpjgtGN0hjBwubYfzj2l8uKnW-yek
Back to Basics with Infants and Toddlers
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description:
This IN-PERSON training session will help participants learn how brain development (in the first three years of life) affects children’s development, how infants and toddlers gain knowledge, the areas of development in infants and toddlers, the ages and stages of infant and toddler development, and finally characteristics of effective caregivers who work closely with infants and toddlers daily.
CLASS Dimensions:
- Infant: Facilitated Exploration
- Toddler: Facilitation of Learning and Development
This training will be held in person at Center For Child And Family Services located at 739 Thimble Shoals Blvd Suite 400, Newport News, VA 23606
How to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpde-hqT4tE9TBzu1ZELprzKKzQ5oL-1D6
Tireless Toddlers
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description: Toddlers have an abundant amount of energy that never seems to end! This workshop will assist in understanding active toddlers, identifying how to support their activity level in group settings as well as providing activities and experiences to channel the never-ending energy. Challenges to incorporating physical activity such as space and outside time that occur in child care settings will be discussed. Ideas and strategies to enhance daily physical activity will also be shared.
CLASS Dimensions: Toddler - Facilitation of Learning and Development, Regard for Child Perspectives
How to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkc-2oqDwvEt0bPort5XrS19quhpbPgzyL
Director Forum Webinar: “Positive Leadership: Reaching Your Infant & Toddler Staff Through Encouragement”
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Are you tired of just managing the daily events? Do you wish you had the skills to be a true leader? Leadership is about vision, about getting people to "build in" to what your organization is doing, and empowering people to get the job done. It is important that we build our skills as leaders so we are able to serve others. We want to help those around us, as well as our community, to ensure a greater good.
CLASS Dimensions: Infant – Relational Climate
Toddler – Positive Climate
How to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdemqpzotE9KN7fClMf2JQ5w-WL7fi2qQ
Tireless Toddlers
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description: Toddlers have an abundant amount of energy that never seems to end! This workshop will assist in understanding active toddlers, identifying how to support their activity level in group settings as well as providing activities and experiences to channel the never-ending energy. Challenges to incorporating physical activity such as space and outside time that occur in child care settings will be discussed. Ideas and strategies to enhance daily physical activity will also be shared.
CLASS Dimensions: Toddler - Facilitation of Learning and Development, Regard for Child Perspectives
How to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkceitrDgsHtUuh0XS0utMihQYpWTo0u_r
Constructing Developmentally Appropriate Infant & Toddler Activities for Family Day Home Providers
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
This webinar will discuss how infants and toddlers learn. Family Day Home providers will explore the ingredients of learning through play, and how to create learning plans for infants and toddlers based on play. Virginia's Early Learning & Development Standards will be shared as a guide for infant and toddler learning.
CLASS Dimensions: Infant- Facilitated Exploration
Toddler- Facilitation of Learning and Development
How to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lceCpqjMpHNN0EI4ZmP83D54_ZyzRev56
123 READ Refresher (In-person training)
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description:
123 READ is an early literacy curriculum designed to enhance the language skills of infants and toddlers through the usage of a story book approach. During this session, infant and toddler childcare providers will have a chance to review important components of the 123 READ early literacy curriculum such as the early literacy learning model, creating a literacy rich environment, infusing literacy in daily routines, and engaging families in literacy development.
CLASS Dimensions:
- Infants: Facilitated Exploration, Early Language Support
Toddlers: Facilitation of Learning and Development, Language Modeling
Note: This is an in-person training to be held at
The Center For Child And Family Services
739 Thimble Shoals Blvd, Suite 400
Newport News, VA 23606
How to register:
You may register below
Or you can contact:
Jamie Wallace, Infant and Toddler Specialist at the Center for Child & Family Service
757-807-0714
jwallace@va-itsnetwork.org
Engaging Environments for Infants, Toddlers and Twos
Presented by ITSN (Infant Toddler Specialist Network)
Description:
Safe, inviting, and interesting environments for infants, toddlers and twos are essential in childcare programs. Join us to discover how to create surroundings that will impact children and help shape their learning.
CLASS Dimensions:
- Infant- Relational Climate, Early Language Support
- Toddler- Positive Climate, Regard for Child Perspectives
How to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ude2prDsuGt3DyQfgltNjUBu0-vkak3b7