Train the Trainer Sessions
Both sessions will be led by TECPDS Master Trainer Sue Hancock
Intermediate/ Advanced Session co-presented with Master Trainer Marlyn Kramer
Beginning Trainers: Let's Go Fishing!
Participants in the morning session will use their "top water" fishing gear to review what is involved in registering and submitting an application to the Texas Early Childhood Professional Development System's (TECPDS) online Trainer Registry.
This session will prepare participants to access the TECPDS website, develop learning objectives, training proposals, and instructional plans. We will discuss the basics of adult learning principles needed for professional development presentations in the field of early childhood education. There will be an opportunity for participants to discuss and identify their strengths in promoting career advancement.
Thursday, October 11 from 8:00 am to noon
Intermediate/Advanced Trainers:Take a Deep Sea Dive!
In this session, participants will take a "deep sea" approach to address relevant learning psychology and how a trainer can work with this psychology both in the design and delivery of training content.
A working understanding of learning psychology will enable the trainer to more effectively manage the learners while they are training through responsive interaction, activities, and discussions. There will be interactive review of developing learning objectives and how training content should relate to those objectives. Participants will examine various training presentation skills that are designed to engage learners and make their trainings more enjoyable and interesting with memorable content.
Thursday, October 11 from 1:15 pm to 5:15 pm
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NAEYC Accreditation Institute
Are you interested in achieving NAEYC Accreditation?
Is your program up for NAEYC Accreditation renewal?
Learn more about the updates to the Accreditation process that were approved in January 2018 and how you can lead your program through this journey!
NAEYC Accreditation of Early Learning Programs has developed a new process and method for achieving and maintaining accreditation. While the heart, integrity and rigor of the accreditation system has remained the same, the 4-step process has undergone a major change in response to the challenges and burdens programs face in achieving accreditation.
As an active participant in this Institute, you will
- Connect with a professional community of leaders committed to best practices and continuous improvement
- Hear from NAEYC Accreditation of Early Learning Program staff and leaders who have gone through the new process
- Get one-to-one tailored assistance
- Build a toolkit of strategies and ideas for creating a positive accreditation journey in your program
Your Accreditation Journey Extends Beyond Conference
By registering for NAEYC’S Accreditation Institute,
you will receive the following:
BEFORE CONFERENCE SUPPORT
Participants will begin their journey with a 1-hour webinar that serves as a virtual orientation to the 2018 Accreditation transition.
AT CONFERENCE TRAINING
This full day interactive session will provide participants the opportunity to learn and share together, while gathering the tools needed to lead your program through a meaningful accreditation journey.
During the day, NAEYC staff will:
- provide an in-depth look at the new assessment items,
- describe important changes to Standard 6,
- provide strategies on how to streamline your program and classroom portfolios to be able to focus on what matters most, and
- lead you through a demonstration on how assessors approach rating elements of the group environment
AFTER CONFERENCE COMMUNITY
After TXAEYC Conference, Accreditation Institute participants will be invited into a private, online community facilitated by your NAEYC Accreditation trainer. Members will have the chance to share challenges, ask questions and provide support to each other, as you journey through the process together. Questions from this online community will inform the content for two additional follow up webinars available to all group members.
Thursday, October 11 from 8;00 am to 5:15 pm
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ASQ Implementation Session
What is the ASQ and how can you incorporate it into your Early Childhood Program?
Session led by Holly Gursslin
The Ages & Stages Questionnaires, Third Edition (ASQ-3) and the Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social Emotional Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2) are early childhood developmental and social emotional screening tools that can be utilized across early childhood systems to pinpoint developmental progress in children between the ages of birth to six.
These tools were developed to be used together to gather the full picture of a child’s development. Additionally, as a screening tool they can be used over time to monitor a child’s progress. The ASQ’s success lies in the parent-centric approach and ease-of-use.
Many early childhood systems utilize the ASQ tool as their primary screening tool and implement it universally for all children served, making ASQ the most widely used developmental screener across the globe!
The ASQ can be used by parents, early educators and health care professionals. It relies on parents as experts, is easy-to-use, family-friendly and creates the snapshot needed to catch delays and celebrate milestones.
This training will teach early childhood providers the history of these evidence-based tools, as well as, how to provide, score, interpret, implement the ASQ:3 and ASQ:SE2, and address referral/outcomes considerations.
Your registration in this pre-conference session includes an ASQ kit, which will be mailed to participants after conference.
Thursday, October 11 from 8:00 am to 5:15 pm
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Public Policy Luncheon
Welcome NAEYC President and Advocate Amy O'Leary
We Are the Ones We Are Waiting For: Leadership in Early Childhood and Care!
You can change the world. All of the skills, gifts and talents you use to support young children can be used where you are sitting right now to lead. The most important piece is that YOU have to BELIEVE. We need to believe in ourselves and be willing to think differently about the future. We need to learn and develop our skills and have opportunities to practice. We need to stay current with early childhood policy and initiatives on the national, state and local level and opportunities to support early learning in your community. We need mentors to help show us the way and give us a seat at the table. Our luncheon speaker Amy O’Leary will explore these ideas and consider how to take individual and collective action.
Register for ALL Special Interest Sessions with your Conference registration
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