Participants will learn specific skills for promoting emotion literacy and self-regulation skills, including emotion coaching, the attention rule, learning how to combine emotion coaching with social coaching using feeling picture cards to promote children’s understanding of feeling words and beginning empathy, understanding how to use pretend paly and puppets to practice self-regulation skills, using the calm down thermometer to teach calm down skills, and understanding when the ignore strategy is a better response to use.

Learn about the importance of sensory play in early childhood. Every child has a preference around certain sensory
experiences and textures. Offering a variety of sensory activities can ensure all students can enjoy sensory play! Sensory play can be more than just sand and water play. Please join us as we make sensory bins out of a variety of materials that your students will enjoy!

Participants will receive an overview of sudden infant death syndrome, identify risk factors and describe ways to reduce the risk of SIDS in child care. The national standards for sleep safety will be presented and resources will be shared for both child care providers and parents. Topics include NC SIDS Laws, child care licensing rules for safe sleep, as well as how to develop a safe sleep policy. Key messages of this training include engaging in safe sleep practices and creating a safe sleep environment for infants and toddlers.

Learn more about the components of the ITERS-3.  Get clarification about questions and discuss the subscales.  Brainstorm how this may look in your classroom.  Look at the individual items and how they are scored.  Learn more so you can feel confident before your ITERS-3 assessment.