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Early Childhood Educator Workshops & Training Opportunities

Playgroups: Moving Beyond Freeplay: Increase the effectiveness of your  playgroup.
Discover strategies to integrate development, parent education, literacy and early intervention into your program with budget-friendly activities designed to increase child development and parent participation.  This workshop will provide participants with information on the components of building an effective playgroup program that incorporates activities that  enhance child development, early intervention and parent-child  interaction.

Connecting Through Sign: ASL for Childcare and Classroom Management
Increase the learning opportunities and abilities within the childcare, classroom and home visitation environments.  Learn an innovative way to compound child participation and educational outcomes, while decreasing noise, frustration and behavior issues.  Management, problem solving, encouragement, transition and play signs will be learned and practiced through games, songs and ASL book reading.  Participants will receive instruction for the use of 75+ American Sign Language Signs.

The Whole Child - Every Child: The Way We Learn
Explore the learning styles and the strengths and weaknesses of each.  Find out how understanding each style will make you a more effective teacher reaching all the children in your classroom.  Learn what works and why what you may be doing currently - doesn't!  This workshop provides you with the steps, keys and activities to make learning possible for each child.

Essential Play... that's FUN!:  Fresh Ideas & Activities
Participants Wanted!!  Experience first hand the fun in learning.  New Activities, Crafts, Circle Time and more, based on developmental domains for early childhood fun and education, are demonstrated and executed.  This session will provide the opportunity for hands-on exploration of new activities as well as ideas for improving and rejuvenating current play formats and programs.  Attendees will participate in each activity to be executed.  Additionally, find out how to proactively engage and involve parents within your program.

ABC Do Phonics
What does sound look like?  Come find out in this wonderfully innovative Workshop.  Embracing each of the learning style and maximizing that strength for the learner makes this training workshop a must!  Utilizing in the Kinesthetic and Visual nature of American Sign Language add to the Auditory learning of the sounds makes spelling and reading possible for very young learners.

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 Communication
Hands 4 Learning provides Childcare Professionals and Parents with hands-on, innovative and practical resources for reaching the whole child. Integrating the use of American Sign Language throughout our comprehensive, “Desired Results” based, relevant developmental and fun interactive curriculum, Hands 4 Learning resources create tangible and life-application learning opportunities for professional, parent and child.

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Hands 4 Learning is a Membership based custom curriculum site for the Early Childhood Educator and Parents of children 0-5 years of age.  Members have the ability to select from pull down menus covering the range of child development domains to specific topics like “the color Green”.  Templates are based on the amount of time to be covered for a single lesson plan.  Selections are made for directed free play, music and movement, rhythm chants, craft activities (with the ability to select by materials lists), transition, gross and fine motor skills, songs – the list is almost unending!  Age appropriate and grade level indicators assist in the selection process.

As a Member completes the selection process for the desired lesson plan, a number of options will appear.  The member will have the ability to load a logo and type in a title, such as:

Miss Jackson’s Kindergarten Class

September 10, 2007

“Fun with Colors”

Music, as well as rhythm chant and finger plays, can be loaded onto the Members’ CD burner software and then burned to a CD for educational and classroom use.  This is a particular “handy” option as all the music and chant selections made will be burned in the order of the lesson plan.

The last option in the lesson plan creation process is the ASL handout sheets.  Hands 4 Learning has the only downloadable ASL sign image Bank on the Internet.  Much like clip and create, Hands 4 Learning will open its bank with over 500 signed images to choose from.

After the Music selection is made and burned, an ASL handout sheet is compiled of the signs generated by the lesson plan.  The Member will have the option of arranging the signed images in the desired order as well as adding or deleting signs to complete the ASL handout.  Again the Member may load a logo at the top of the ASL handout sheet creating a complete and completely customized Lesson Plan.
 
Features for the Professional and Childcare Center Membership levels include:
  • Professional/Center Listing: Both the Professional’s and Childcare Center’s information will be available to the public in a large search engine.  Retrievable by region, zip code or name.
  • Access to the Collaborators Chalkboard: The Chalkboard is a Web forum for find ideas, share ideas and connect with the community of Early Childhood Educators and Professionals.
  • Member Privilege Purchasing: Discounts on many of the Product Resources found in the Hands 4 Learning Online Resource Center. Members will get sales alerts and special pricing prior to items being available to the general public.

Additional options with the Professional and Childcare Center Membership package are:
  • Video Dictionary:  This will add utility to the Member’s own website by uploading the Hands 4 Learning Video Dictionary. Parents and Clients won't be sent to "another" site for quick helpful signing references - they can stay right at the Member’s website.
  • Newsletter Customizer:  To assist in keeping parents and clients of Members informed, Hands 4 Learning provides weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual newsletter templates customizable with Logos, calendars and location information.  Templates have “Open Boxes” for information specific to the Member as well as “Set Boxes” for developmental domain and skills spotlight articles written in layman’s terms for every parent to understand (many translated into Spanish).

The “Moms Membership Package” is full of useful items.  An ASL Baby Bank houses over 80 sign images to use in creating fun and helpful "Quick-Looks" reference cards. Tracking Baby’s monthly progress making it fun and memorable with the Butterfly Babies Templates. Templates are set for “2-up” printing - one for the diaper bag and the scrapbook!  Each custom ASL Sheet will be placed in an online Baby’s First Signs scrapbook with the ability to print separate sheets out or the entire book at anytime.  Easy-print Static Sheets are available if a Mom is looking for an easy way to work through the usable signs for her child. The "Easy-print" sheets print "2-up" as well.

Features for the Mom’s Membership level include:
  • SignPod-cast are available to download right to the Mom Member’s cell phone or IPod.   Each segment is fun and entertaining - not to mention educational.
  • Homework Fun & Games: Progressive educational, developmentally sound and fun learning tools and games are available online for both Mom and Child interaction while learning.
  • Access to the Mommy Chatter: The Mommy Chatter is a Web forum for find ideas, share ideas, exchanging advise and connect with the community of Learning Mom’s.
  • Member Privilege Purchasing: Discounts on many of the Product Resources found in the Hands 4 Learning Online Resource Center. Members will get sales alerts and special pricing prior to items being available to the general public.

Hands 4 Learning houses an Online Resource Center for both its Members and the Public.  This store stocks useful items for both the Classroom and the Living room making both environments rich with learning tools.  Available are Educator and Parent Kits, DVD’s, CD’s, Books, Educational toys and games and much more.
 
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