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Professional Development and Training Course Catalog

September 2019

Our Mission We champion children everywhere by providing resources and support to anyone

who impacts them, helping every child achieve the brightest outlook possible.

Services Offered

We empower parents, caregivers, and educators to know they have everything it

takes to be brain builders giving children everything THEY need to be their most

brilliant selves. That’s why we offer expert-led training, resources, and support to

parents, caregivers, and early childhood educators, so everyone can act in the

best interest of the child.


ASSC Professional Development and Training offers a range of topics that align with the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry Knowledge and Competencies. These competencies for early childhood and school-age professionals outline what they need to know and do when caring for and educating young children. The topics support professionals in their goals to increasing their knowledge of early childhood educational best practices.

Knowledge Areas

Child Growth and Development

Curriculum and Learning Environment

Child Observation and Assessment

Effective Interactions

Codes ITT – Infant/Toddler Training - Topics appropriate for Infant and Toddler Teachers TST – Topic Specific Training - Topics appropriate for Preschool Teachers OST - Out of School Time - Topics appropriate for Out of School Time Personnel FCC - Family Child Care - Topics appropriate for Family Childcare Providers ECL- Early Childhood Leadership - Topics appropriate for Directors and Leadership Teams

1Arizona Infant and Toddler Guidelines - http://www.azftf.gov/WhoWeAre/Board/Documents/az_infant_toddler_guidelines.pdf 2Arizona Workforce Knowledge and Competencies - http://azearlychildhood.org/uploads/sites/1/WKC_FINAL_07.31.15.pdf 3Arizona Early Learning Standards- https://cms.azed.gov/home/GetDocumentFile?id=591e2ea43217e122b492b21f 4Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Quality Standards - https://azafterschool.org/promoting-quality/quality-standards/

Visit www.azregistry.org to register and for more information!

Individual registration is required prior to the start of the class. We are unable to accept walk-ins. Additional trainings continue to be added. Please visit the registry or contact us to find out about other opportunities available in your area. Call our Training Department at 480-829-0500 and select option 2.

Family and Community Partnerships

Professionalism

Program Management

http://azearlychildhood.org/uploads/sites/1/WKC_FINAL_07.31.15.pdf

https://cms.azed.gov/home/GetDocumentFile?id=591e2ea43217e122b492b21f

https://azafterschool.org/promoting-quality/quality-standards/

http://www.azregistry.org/


Code Age Range AZITG Domain1 or Core Knowledge Area2

Title/Topic Description Arizona Workforce Knowledge and Compentencies3

ITT Infant/Toddler Child Growth and Development

Typical and Atypical

Development This training helps teachers in identifying typical and atypical

development in infant and toddlers.


1. Typical and Atypical Development

ITT Infant/Toddler Social Emotional Primary Caregiving

Available in Spanish:

Cuidado Primario

This training helps participants understand the concept and value

of primary caregiving in the Infant and Toddler classroom.

Curriculum and Learning Environment 1. Overall Learning Environment

3. Continuity of Care

ITT Infant/Toddler Social Emotional Attachment


Desarrollo Social y Emocional: Apego

This training provides an

introduction to attachment theory

and the importance of a child's first

relationships, which have

profound long-lasting effects on

subsequent development.

Participants will understand how their role as a caregiver who is

reliably available and responsive

to a baby's needs forms the basis

for secure attachment, for

competence in exploring the

environment and forming other relationships, and for developing

self-esteem.

Child Growth and Development:

5. Facilitation of Development 1. Role of Relationships

ITT Infant/Toddler Approaches to Learning Approaches to Learning-Persistence Available in Spanish: Enfoques de Aprendizaje: La Persistencia

This training focuses on the

concept of helping children develop persistence as an

approach to learning. Participants

will gain a deeper understanding of

persistence and why it is important

for learning.

Curriculum and Learning Environments

2. Learning Strategies

3. Facilitating Curiosity, Exploration and Play

ITT Infant/Toddler Cognitive Development Exploration and Discovery:

This training helps participants gain an understanding of how

children grow and develop

cognitive skills in the early years.

Child Growth and Development 1. Basic Child Development

1. Developmental Patterns and

Principles Curriculum and Learning Environments

2. Learning Strategies

3. Facilitating Curiosity, Exploration and Play

1Arizona Infant Toddler Guidelines Developmental Domains 2Arizona Workforce Registry Core Knowledge Areas

ITT Infant/Toddler Cognitive Development Brain Architecture This training helps participants gain an understanding of how the brain

develops and how positive experiences and interactions with

caregivers promote healthy brain development.


2. Developmental Patterns and Principles

ITT Infant/Toddler Cognitive Development Relationships and the Brain

This training will help participants gain

an understanding of how the brain reacts to stress and how positive

experiences and interactions with

caregivers promote healthy brain development.



ITT Infant/Toddler Physical Development Gross Motor Development


Desarrollo Físico y Motriz

Desarrollo de Motores

Gruesos

This training helps participants gain an understanding of how children

grow and develop physical skills in the early years.



ITT Infant/Toddler Family and Community Partnerships

Knowing and

Understanding Families

This training helps participants gain

an appreciation for parents as a child's first teacher. They learn

new strategies for engaging parents and families in the early

care environment.


6. Interactions with Families 1. Positive Family Communications

Family and Community Partnerships 1. Knowing and Respecting Families

ITT Infant/Toddler Language Development Listening and

Understanding This training helps participants

gain an understanding of how

children grow and develop

language skills in the early years.


2. Basic Child Development 5. Developmental Patterns and

Principles Effective Interactions

4. Communication 3. Basic Listening

ITT Infant/Toddler Language Development Communicating and

Speaking This training help participants

gain an understanding of

language development to

foster children’s communicating

and speaking skills in the early years.


3. Basic Child Development

6. Developmental Patterns and

Principles Effective Interactions

4. Communication 5. Oral Communication Strategies

ITT Infant/Toddler Mathematics /Curriculum

Setting a Foundation for Math from the

Start

This training covers some foundational math concepts and

how teachers can expose children to mathematics in everyday

activities with “Math Talk”.


4. Curriculum 6. Learning about Mathematics

ITT Infant/Toddler Overall Learning Environments

Schedules, Routines,

and Transitions

This training will help participants understand the importance

of implementing schedules, and routines that meet the children’s

individual needs. This course will also help participants understand that best

practices for routines, schedules and transitions is through responsive

caregiving.

Schedules, Routines & Transitions 4.1 Predictable & Flexible Schedules &

Transitions

4.2 Balanced Schedules

Code Age Range AZELS Domain3 or Core Knowledge

Area2


TST Preschool/ 3-8 yrs. old

Physical Development

Child Growth And

Development

Typical and Atypical Development

This training helps teachers in

developing an inclusive environment that supports the

needs and learning styles of each child. Teachers will gain

strategies for modifying classroom activities and routines.

Child Growth and Development 1. Typical and Atypical Development


Physical Development

Child Growth And Development

Basic Child

Development:


Desarrollo Infantil

Básico

This training helps participants

gain a baseline understanding of child development.


1. Basic child Development


Social Emotional Primary Caregiving


Cuidado Primario

This training helps participants understand the concept and value

of primary caregiving in the Infant and Toddler classroom.




Social Emotional


FLIP IT!® Four supportive steps to help

young children learn about their

feelings, gain self-control, and

reduce challenging behavior.

Effective Interactions 5. Guidance

7. Challenging Behaviors 8. Pro-Social Solutions


Social Emotional


Behavior Guidance Available in Spanish: Guía de Comportamiento

This training covers foundational concepts of building relationships

with children, establishing

behavioral expectations, supporting autonomy& self-

regulation while encouraging and modeling prosocial behaviors.

Effective Interactions 5. Guidance


Family and Community

Partnerships

Knowing and

Understanding Families Available in Spanish: Conocer y Respetar a

las Familias


understand the importance of families in the lives of the children

they care for. A goal of this training session is to help

participants recognize the influence families have on

children’s development.


6. Interactions with Families 1. Positive Family Communications

Family and Community Partnerships 2. Knowing and Respecting Families

2Arizona Workforce Registry Core Knowledge Areas 3Arizona Early Learning Standards



Family Engagement This training helps participants understand the importance of

including families in their programs. A goal of this training

session is to help participants recognize the value of building

positive relationships with families.

Family and Community Partnerships 2. Communication

2. Involving families


Mathematics Developmentally Appropriate

Practices

This training covers foundational preschool math concepts and

how teachers can expose children to mathematics in everyday

activities.


3. Curriculum 6. Learning about Mathematics


Curriculum and Learning

Environment

Schedules, Routines, and Transitions

This training helps participants understand the importance of

implementing consistent visual

daily schedules, consistent

routines and transitions with the children they care for.


4. Schedules, Routines and Transitions


Professionalism Ethics This training helps participants identify how their personal values

align with their work in early care and education. Through the

activities and discussion in this training, providers will

understand how ethics in early care and education support their

decision making processes.

Professionalism

3. Ethics


Program Management

Human Resource Management

This training helps participants develop ideas for hiring,

engaging and retaining staff.

Program Management 6. Human Resource Management


Observation and Assessment

Plans and Procedures


Planificación y Procedimientos

This training is one of several that will give teachers an

overview and some strategies to use in observing and assessing

children in their childcare settings.

Child Observation and Assessment

1. Assessment Plans and Procedures

* N/A - not used for this topic

Code Age Range OST Standards4 or Core Knowledge

Area2


OST School Age/ 5-12 yrs. old

Child Growth And Development

Basic Development of School Age

Children


Desarrollo Básico de Niños en Edad Escolar


understand the continued development of children through

age 12 years.

Child Growth and Development 2. Typical and Atypical Development


N/A* School Age -Overall

Learning

Environments

This training helps participants understand the importance of

setting up an environment that meets the varied needs of school

age children.



N/A* Afterschool Programs-

Environments That Support Learning

(Homework)


understand the importance of high quality afterschool

programs. This training also help

participants provide a supportive

environment for homework help

and activities that support and

extend learning.

Curriculum and Learning Environment 2. Learning Strategies

1. Effective Learning Strategies 2. Encouraging Participation

OST School Age/

5-12 yrs. old

N/A* Afterschool Programs-

Environments That Support Learning (Focus on STEM)


understand the importance of STEM activities and how they

help children to improve academically and bring

awareness of future possibilities of careers as scientist,

mathematicians and engineers.


3. Curriculum 6. Learning about Mathematics 7. Learning about Science

9. Learning about Fine Arts

2Arizona Workforce Registry Core Knowledge Areas 4Out of School Time Standards

Code Age Range Core Knowledge Area2


FCC 0-12 yrs. old Family and

Community Partnerships

Families as Partners This training helps participants

understand the importance of including families in their

programs. A goal of this training session is to help participants

recognize the value of building positive relationships with

families.


2. Communication 2. Involving families

FCC 0-12 yrs. old Curriculum and Learning

Environment

The Learning

Environment This training allows participants

the opportunity to explore what type of environment would best

suit the children in their home care space. It looks at how to

meet the needs of a mixed age group.


FCC 0-12 yrs. old Program Management Business and

Professional Practices

This course allows participants to

learn all of the business aspects of running a family childcare

business.

Program Management

FCC 0-12 yrs. old Child Growth And Development

Basic Child Development


understand the continued development of children through

age 12 years.


FCC 0-12 yrs. old Effective Interactions

Behavior Guidance

This training covers foundational

concepts of building relationships with children, establishing

behavioral expectations, supporting autonomy& self-

regulation while encouraging and

modeling prosocial behaviors.


5. Guidance

FCC 0-12 yrs. old Curriculum and Learning

Environment

Activities to do with Children


learn about the value of planning

structured activities for the

children and the importance of

schedules and implementing a

curriculum.


2Arizona Workforce Registry Core Knowledge Areas

Code Age Range Core Knowledge Area2


ECL Directors/

Leadership Teams

Professionalism Ethics This training helps participants

identify how their personal values align with their work in early care

and education. Through the activities and discussion in this

training, providers will understand how ethics in early

care and education support their decision making processes.

Professionalism

3. Ethics

ECL Directors/ Leadership

Teams

Program Management

Human Resource Management

(Hiring Staff)

This training helps participants develop ideas for hiring,

engaging and retaining staff.

Program Management

6. Human Resource Management


Teams

Social Emotional Primary Caregiving


understand the concept and value of primary caregiving in the Infant

and Toddler classroom.




Teams

Program Management

Human Resource

Management (Coaching and

Mentoring Staff)

This training will give directors

and assistant directors the essentials to providing coaching

and mentoring support to their staff.

Program Management 6. Human Resource Management

ECL Directors/

Leadership Teams

Program

Management

Budgeting for Quality

This training will help directors

and other leadership staff learn the common components of the

child care budget. The content will also look at managing staffing

costs- as this is the largest expense of a programs budget.

Program Management 3. Fiscal Management


Teams

Program Management

Staff Meetings that Inspire Movement

This training will help directors

and other leadership staff learn some helpful strategies to provide

meaningful meetings for staff through the use of an agenda,

things to consider when facilitating meetings, and

engaging staff.

Program Management 6. Human Resource management

Communications

2Arizona Workforce Registry Core Knowledge Areas

Finding DES ASCC Trainings on the Registry

Login to the Arizona Early Childhood Workforce Registry at www.azregistry.org

1) On the left-hand side of the page, click on Find Training Event

2) Under Select a search category, please select Sponsor Name.

3) Under Enter search criteria, please type ASCC Professional Development Services.

4) Click on the Search button

5) You will now see a list of DES ASCC Trainings. You may sort by Date or Location by selecting either the Scheduled or Location buttons.

6) Click on the Radio Button of the training for which you

are interested, and click on View Event.

7) After reading all the details, if this is the training you wish to attend, click on Enroll Now.

8) Review your personal data and Confirm and Continue

Registration.

9) Check I Agree, and then Confirm and Finalize.

10) If you have any special accommodations, you may now type in

your request. Submit Enrollment.

You are now enrolled in the training. An email confirmation will be

sent to the email address you have used as your Registry Account.

If you wish to view your enrollments, click on My Enrollments under My Tools & Settings.

Visit www.azregistry.org to register and for more information!

Individual registration is required prior to the start of the class. We are unable to accept walk-ins. Additional trainings continue to be added.

Please visit the registry or contact us to find out about other opportunities available in your area. Call our Training Department at 480-829-0500 and select option 2.

