Online Training through ChildSavers!

Are you interested in improving your skills and professional standing in the child care/early education field, but unable to participate in traditional classroom-based trainings because of scheduling or transportation difficulties?

If so, you will be pleased to know that ChildSavers now offers distance learning opportunities for child care providers! Important professional development and training is available online, and the fees are affordable.

Beginning in July 2009, we are offering two forms of online training:

Real-time trainings ("webinars") through which registered participants login to a website at a specified time, and take a training led by one of our Child Development Services early childhood specialists. Trainings are interactive, offering the opportunity to ask questions and participate in discussions. The following upcoming webinars are FREE (pre-registration required):

• Monday, May 3, 12:30 - 1:30: "Engaged Children = Learning"
• Wednesday, May 5, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.: "CDA Orientation"
• Friday, May 7, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.: "Why Do They Do That?"
• Friday, May 7, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. (date changed from Friday, April 23!): "USDA Renewal Training"
• Monday, May 10, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: "Maximize Learning Time"
• Friday, May 14, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.: "Understanding Temperaments"
• Monday, May 17, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: "Stimulating Language"
• Friday, May 21, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.: "Temperaments: Risk and Protective Factors"
• Monday, May 24, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: "Encouraging Children to Analysis, Reason and Create"
• Wednesday, June 2, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. (date changed from Thursday, April 22!): "Four Questions Concerning Challenging Behaviors"
• Friday, June 4, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. (date changed from Wednesday, April 28!): "Thinking About Parent-Provider Relationships"
• Tuesday, June 8, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.: "Child's Play the Green Way: Fun Activities with Reusable Materials"
  

Self-paced training through which participants may login and complete the coursework over numerous intervals, according to their unique schedules.

• Click here to access a list of self-paced training offerings and participation fees.

Contact Lisa Thompson at (804) 644-9590, ext. 3018 or lthompson@childsavers.org if you have questions or would like additional information.

Click here to access and login to the online training website.

(Note: by clicking on the above "Click here" links, you will be directed to sites external to ChildSavers.)