Looking for resources you can use for professional development in early childhood and early intervention? Here they are!
We also recommend that you use NICHCY’s state resource sheets as a starting place to enter the early intervention system in your state and see what training modules or other training materials may be online for professional development purposes. There are quite a few. Even those from other states can be useful in developing staff knowledge and competencies.
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Selected early childhood/early intervention training materials.
www.fpg.unc.edu/~scpp/pdfs/rguide.pdf
The Resource Guide lists books, videos, CDs, curricula, and online materials on key topics related to work with young children and their families.
Assistive technology: Training staff and families.
http://tinyurl.com/3n7n9c5
Find out how in Assistive Technology Training for Providers & Families of Children in Early Intervention, courtesy of Tots ‘n Tech Research Institute (TnT).
Diversity on your staff, diversity in the families you serve.
www.fpg.unc.edu/~walkingthewalk/pdfs/WTW_guide.pdf
Walking the Walk: A Guide to Diversity Resources for Trainers is an annotated listing of high quality videotapes, books, curricula, and other materials that can be used to assist in growing a more diverse and better prepared workforce to serve infants, toddlers, children and families who are culturally and linguistically diverse.
Hook up with others in your shoes at the Early Childhood Education online.
www.umaine.edu/eceol/
The Early Childhood Education On Line LISTSERV community offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others interested in providing quality care and learning situations for young children birth through 8 years.
Wanna join OSEP’s Early Childhood Community of Practice?
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has formed several communities of practice (CoP) to improve implementation of IDEA. Pick your pleasure!
Identification of Infants/Toddlers
http://www.tacommunities.org/community/view/id/1008
The name of this community reveals its focus: identification of infants and todders, including those who are homeless, in foster care, wards of the State, abused or neglected, or under the age of 3 and affected by illegal substance abuse or prenatal drug exposure.
Part C Settings – Services in Natural Environments
http://www.tacommunities.org/community/view/id/1029
Members of this community are professionals, parents, and administrators who work with young children birth to age three. The community’s overall purpose is to share information and resources for improving practices in providing services and supports in natural environments.
Designing an effective TA system to pass the word through your network.
www.nectac.org/pubs/titlelist.asp#design
NECTAC offers a three-part workbook that’s intended to serve as a planning resource for state officials to help them think strategically about their technical assistance (TA) systems—how to design it, how to use it to improve capacity throughout the system. For the small cost of $5.00…read what you’ll get at the link above.
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