Micro-Courses

Building Relationships with Infants and Toddlers is a 4-hour training designed to equip early childhood educators with practical strategies to nurture strong, caring connections with infants and toddlers, supporting their overall development. 

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Building Relationships with Infants and Toddlers helps early educators:

• Identify the process through which children learn to understand and manage their emotions, form relationships with others, and develop social skills
• Understand why a relationship-based approach is important to development
• Develop strategies to guide infant and toddler behavior effectively
• Promote meaningful engagement with families

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Building Relationships with Infants and Toddlers includes the following lessons:

1. Young Infants  1 hour
2. Mobile Infants  1 hour
3. Toddlers  1 hour
4. Group Coaching  1 hour

Child Care Orientation Training (often called CCOT) offers 10 hours of basic training for early educators with little or no child care experience. This basic orientation training should be completed within three (3) months of starting employment in a child care setting.

This course is also available as a condensed online self-paced course offering 8 hours of approved professional development credit from the Arkansas Professional Development Registry (PDR). To register for a self-paced course, visit the Online Courses page and select the ENROLL NOW! SELF-PACED COURSE button.

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Child Care Orientation Training helps early educators:

• Discover their role as professionals in the field of early care and education
• Recognize best practice in the areas of learning, guidance, health, and safety in the education and care of young children
• Develop ways to support actions and policies that contribute to a healthy environment for children
• Understand Arkansas licensing requirements for various types of early care and education programs
• Develop skills and techniques required to care for children within a safe and stimulating environment

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Child Care Orientation Training includes the following lessons:

1. Early Care and Education as a Profession  2 hours
2. Best Practice for the Developing Child  2 hours
3. Guiding Children  2 hours
4. Children's Health  2 hours
5. Children's Safety  2 hours

Since family child care providers care for children in the home, sometimes they have difficulty thinking of themselves in professional terms. In reality, family child care providers are individuals operating a home business and are recognized by the U. S. Department of Labor as an occupation. Family Child Care Provider (often called FCCP) is a basic orientation training that specifically targets child care family home providers.

FCCP is required in Arkansas for all newly licensed and registered providers within the first six (6) months of being licensed or registered, and fulfills the orientation hours for family child care providers required by the Office of Early Childhood. It is also useful for providers who would like a refresher course in the basics of family child care.

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Family Child Care Provider helps early educators:

• Recognize family child care as a profession and review family child care regulations
• Organize their homes appropriately in order to promote children’s safety, health, and learning for children of all ages
• Discover techniques for behavior and guidance, schedules, routines and activities for learning that help guide children through the day
• Develop an awareness of the business components of family child care
• Apply the information learned in class to their home situation

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Family Child Care Provider includes the following lessons:

1.   Profession and Regulations  1.5 hours
2.   Organizing the Home  1.5 hours
3.   Guiding Children Through the Day  1.5 hours
4.   Business Management  1.5 hour
5.   Family Child Care Provider Home Review  2 hour (take-home activity)

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Click here to register for FCCP training.

Contact Jackie Couture for any questions about this course.

Introduction to Child Care is a 2-hour training that provides a comprehensive understanding of the employment opportunities in a career as a child care professional, including the resources and requirements needed for starting a child care business. This micro-course is intended for any professional interested in entering the early childhood education field, including a variety of roles instrumental in supporting positive child outcomes.

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Introduction to Child Care includes the following objectives:

1. Describe types of child care
2. Discuss roles within child care
3. Define quality child care
4. Examine professional organizations

Introduction to Coaching Skills is a 3-hour interactive training in which participants overview the benefits of coaching and learn about the skills and mindset needed for coaching to be successful. Through a series of information and hands-on activities, participants practice active listening, asking high quality questions, and the GROW coaching model, putting them on the path to turn work-experienced challenges into learning situations.

Leading Yourself is a 3-hour training designed to help early childhood leaders and professionals enhance their skills by using personality assessment information to develop strategies for more effective communication and collaboration. 

What if you could spend eight sessions with an amazing mentor? What would be the impact on child and family outcomes? Based on the bestselling book, Monday Morning Leadership, this 6-hour training helps leaders develop the eight key leadership principles outlined in the Monday Morning Leadership book. These concepts are simple, doable, and can be implemented immediately. But, more importantly, they work! Monday Morning Leadership is a training that offers unique encouragement and direction to help you become a better manager, employee, and person.

In this training, participants will discuss eliminating blame and accepting total responsibility; why confusion is the biggest workplace stressor; why every person on the team must be coached; that integrity is the foundation of trust, which is an essential element of successful leadership; the value of hiring tough; and how to improve at time management.

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Monday Morning Leadership includes the following objectives:

1. Making Tough Decisions
2. Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
3. Keep Your Stars Shining
4. The ‘Do Right’ Rule
5. Hire Tough
6. Do Less Work Faster
7. Buckets and Dippers
8. Enter the Learning Zone

Team Building: Connecting for Success is a 3-hour training designed to show leaders how to help team members perform better together. This course focuses on how effective teamwork builds trust, boosts creative problem-solving, and increases efficiency and productivity. Prerequisite required: Leading Yourself. Limited availability.