TOOLS & TRAININGS
The Beginning Education: Early Childcare At Home program is professional development program specifically designed for home-based child care providers of children from birth – five years. The program includes 4 modules (20 hours) and focuses on supporting the social-emotional, cognitive, language, literacy, and mathematics development of young children.
This course examines processes for program directors looking to improve their staff development program. Participants develop methods and explore strategies for identifying center and staff training needs, as well as effective adult learning strategies. ($12)
This course will focus on leadership fundamentals. You will be introduced to critical leadership concerns and how managers can effectively build and support a high-performing team. Additionally, you will complete a leadership self-assessment, which will be used to assess individual competencies. This is course 1 of 8 in the Child Care Business Training courses. ($12)
The Head Start page offers tools and strategies to help early childhood programs recruit, support, and retain a strong education workforce, with a focus on professional development, mental health, and HR best practices.
Starting a new home-based child care business involves making a number of decisions, including the type of home-based child care to operate and how to incorporate best practices. This course supports home-based child care business owners introducing the types of home-based child care, Minimum Standards, best business practices, and other critical components for operating a successful business.
The health and safety of children in care is the top priority for all early childhood professionals. This course for prospective home-based child care business owners will introduce some of the health and safety standards, best practices, and ways to properly implement these in home-based child care.
Learning environments and intentional teaching are key aspects of any successful early childhood program. This course for prospective home-based child care business owners will introduce high-quality learning environments, intentional teaching, and multi-age activity planning in home-based child care settings.
Starting a new home-based child care business involves making a number of decisions about how best to operate the program and meet the needs of children and families. This course for prospective home-based child care business owners will introduce some key support systems and the tools and services they provide.
This website offers a range of digital and print materials and resources related to child care training, including a number of online courses for child care professionals seeking to fulfill state-mandated training requirements. These resources will help early childhood professionals find and complete training hours needed as related to their role.
This training was designed for use by early childhood administrators. These competencies represent the range of knowledge and observable skills needed to effectively manage early childhood programs. They are intended to serve as a guide to those interested in acquiring a better understanding of the scope of responsibilities associated with early childhood program administration.
RESOURCES
Select an assessment measure to explore examples, activities, and tools that support quality improvement for that measure.
This is an example of a Professional Development Profile Report for Administrators and Practitioners from TECPDS. This report can be used to analyze staff education, experience, and training to ensure staff are meeting requirements for training hours and topics. The report can also help inform staff training plans if some training topics have less coverage than others.
Educational documentation (transcripts, diplomas, certificates) must be observed to show how the director qualifies. Here is a sample transcript that shows documentation of the director’s college education coursework as it relates to their role.
Director documentation of experience (résumé, curriculum vitae, date of hire) must be observed during program assessment. The resume sample shows how proof of years of experience in early childhood education can be provided by the director.