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2010-2011 Better Kid Care DVD Workshops (now complete)

Our new DVD format will be easy for workshop facilitators to deliver and it includes lots of participant interaction.  Each 2-hour workshop will include an instructor’s manual, DVD with video clips, planned activities and camera-ready participant handouts.

NOTE:  The funding entity for Better Kid Care stipulated that two programs developed this fiscal year should focus on infant/toddler topics and two focus on school-age.  Please note that the two school-age topics will also be very appropriate for professionals working with pre-schoolers.

Title & Description of Workshop

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Building Relationships with Children and Youth Who Challenge Us

Description:  Have you ever been secretly pleased when one of the children in your group is absent? Some children are more difficult to work with than others.  This professional development program will help you to take an honest look at children and your feelings about them.  Explore what professionals can do to build positive relationships with all children – even the ones who challenge us.

10/29/2010

Giving Your Best: Making Secure Attachments

Description: If you make a list of qualities of successful adults it will likely include: confidence, independence, strong social skills, resilience, cooperation, etc. The foundation for these traits is built on the relationships that infants and toddlers form with the adults in their world. Learn what you can provide for children today to help prepare them to be successful adults tomorrow.

12/17/2010

Every Child Counts:  Building Community

Description: Jamal seems different from the rest of the children in your group. He usually plays by himself and when he asks to join others in play, they usually say, “No.” This professional development program will help you learn how to bring out nurturing, caring behaviors in children to create a community where children support each other. You’ll learn ways to help Jamal and others like him to rise from being loners in the group to being leaders.

2/18/2011

Creating Special Moments with Infants and Toddlers

Description: Special moments should occur more often than celebrating children’s birthdays or developmental milestones. This professional development program will help you discover how to create special moments with infants and toddlers every day. Learn how to turn diaper changing and other routine tasks into special moments  that you share with each child

4/22/2011

* Release dates are the dates when the materials will be in your hands, so you can plan workshop delivery dates accordingly.

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Viewers Outside Pennsylvania:

There is a nominal charge for cost recovery. To order the workshop materials, handouts, and DVD if you are offering this workshop outside the state of Pennsylvania. Please use the Materials Order Form. For more information, e-mail or call 814-863-0339.

For information on the structure and content of the DVD workshops, please contact Lyn Horning, Assistant Director of Programs and the assistant producer of the workshops (lch5@psu.eduor 814-863-5568).

Visit the Past Satellite Workshops link to view the past workshops on-line.