Early Childhood Education Trainings
Questions? Contact Us.
Ronnette Haynes
- Lead Instructor, Coaching & Outreach Coordinator
- Ronnette.Haynes@uafs.edu
- 479-788-7605
- Echols 113-E
These FREE training courses are funded through grants awarded by the Division of Child Care
and Early Childhood Education. For more information or to schedule a training, call
the UAFS Early Childhood Preschool Program at 479-788-7249 or 479-788-7605.
- Planning small group time
- Conducting small group time
- Telling stories with visuals
- Choosing developmentally appropriate books
- Creating materials
- Using materials to increase learning
- Using music and movement with different age groups
- Setting up a music center
- Designated Arkansas-approved curriculum
- Comprehensive curriculum for children ages 3-5
- Features 40 topics of study in nine focus areas
- Activities support the learning goals as identified in the Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards (CDELS)
- Guides participants through the process of developing weekly activity plans as mandated in the Arkansas Minimum Licensing Requirements
- Provides an opportunity to create curriculum materials for the topic of study featured in the training
- Comprehensive curriculum for children 18-36 months
- Features 30 topics in eight focus areas
- Activities support the learning goals as identified in the Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards (CDELS)
- Guides participants through the process of developing weekly activity plans as mandated in the Arkansas Minimum Licensing Requirements
- Provides an opportunity to create curriculum materials for the topic of study featured in the training
- Easily transitions into the Adventures in Learning curriculum for children ages 3-5
- Comprehensive curriculum for infants birth through eighteen months
- Activities support the learning goals as identified in the Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards (CDELS)
- Focuses on responsive relationships and interactions between caregivers and infants
- Guides participants through the process of developing weekly activity plans as mandated in the Arkansas Minimum Licensing Requirements
- Provides an opportunity to create curriculum materials for infants with related activities
- Supplemental curriculum for toddlers and preschool children
- Series of activity guides that connect literature and movement
- Utilizes a children’s book to support one or more gross motor skills identified in the Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards (CDELS)
- Extends to movement activities suggested in the book
- Expands to include related curriculum activities and ideas for enhancing the learning environment
- Supports programs in meeting physical activity requirements as stated in the Minimum Licensing Requirements for Child Care Centers
- Supplemental curriculum for preschool children
- Provides a list of materials to consider when creating a hands-on math environment
- Includes 14 curriculum guides
- Provides an opportunity to create curriculum materials for the topic of study featured in the training
- Supplemental curriculum for preschool children
- Integrates literature and the creative arts
- Introduces children to the works of well-known artists and various techniques used by illustrators of children’s books
- Includes 14 curriculum guides that begin with a children’s book and extends to related experiences in the visual and performing arts
- Supports the Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standards (CDELS) Creativity
and Aesthetics Domain
- Supplemental curriculum for children ages 3-5
- Collection of curriculum guides that pair storybooks with informational books with a common theme or focus
- Integrates three of the Arkansas Child Development and Early Learning Standard (CDELS) Domains: Emergent Literacy, Science and Technology, Social Studies
- Encourages children to think, express curiosity, and seek answers to questions they may have
- Provides an opportunity to create curriculum materials for the topic of study featured
in the training
- Identifies the characteristics of an early childhood professional
- Examines ethical responsibilities to children, families, and colleagues
- Explores relationships, daily exchanges, and written and verbal communication with families
- Family program connections and engagement
- Physical arrangement of the environment
- Materials and equipment in the environment
- Social and emotional environment
- Importance of teamwork in an early care and education program
- Strategies that support teamwork
- Strategies for building relationships
- Building resilience in children
- Daily classroom schedule and routines
- Daily experiences in each classroom (curriculum)
- Weekly activity plan sheets
- Children’s portfolios
- Daily transitions for all children (infants, toddlers, preschool)
- Successful transitions for preschool children
- When children transition into and out of a classroom or preschool program
- Importance of children and the outdoor environment
- Safety in the outdoor environment
- Outdoor activities
- Collection of patterns that may be used as visuals for storytelling or story retelling
- Thirty-seven patterns for children’s books
- Twelve Mother Goose rhymes
- Planning whole-group time
- Conducting whole-group time
- Transitioning to and from whole-group time