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Welcome to 2011 ECDC B-3 Educator’s (EdReps) Professional Development Training

Welcome to 2011 ECDC B-3 Educator’s (EdReps) Professional Development Training. Agenda. Session 1 Opening Activities Imam’s Guidance for ECDC Why do we need ECDC Break Session 2 Revised Curriculum Any Other Business. Guidance. Firman made by Mawlana Hazar

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Welcome to 2011 ECDC B-3 Educator’s (EdReps) Professional Development Training

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  1. Welcome to 2011ECDC B-3 Educator’s (EdReps) Professional Development Training

  2. Agenda Session 1 • Opening Activities • Imam’s Guidance for ECDC • Why do we need ECDC Break Session 2 • Revised Curriculum • Any Other Business

  3. Guidance Firman made by Mawlana Hazar Imam on December 13, 2008 (Get Firman book from MukhiSaheb)

  4. Elaboration on Guidance • List key words that come to your mind • What do they mean to you? • Are we addressing these? • What are the gaps?

  5. Why is there a focus on Education for Early Childhood Development? Neuroscience (Video clips) New York Times - Moral Life of Babies Harvard University (You-Tube) - Young Brain

  6. What Do WE Know? How does ECDC staff help families? A:Attention B: Bonding C: Communication

  7. Sample of Recent Research • Babies recognize mother’s voice prenatally - and can discriminate mother’s voice as opposed to another person’s voice soon after birth • Infants learn language from the minute they are born - Infants hear a sound and try to reproduce it…vowel sound “A” • Newborns prefer hearing speech to non-speech sounds and can discriminate words that convey meaning on their own, for ex., nouns and verbs from those that don’t such as articles and conjunctions • At 6 months, babies recognize sounds from different languages but lose the ability by age one if not consistently heard • Babies need to hear “Motherese”- high pitched sound • Source: University of Montreal – Globe and Mail Article Dec 17, 2010 http://m.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/infants-give-mother-tongue-new-meaning/article1841469/?service=mobile

  8. Spiritual Daughters What role do you play as a “Spiritual Daughter” in the context of our Imam’s expectations ?

  9. New Structure Unification Strategy: Program Name: ECDC Birth- Six - No more PIAR B-6 or LCPC - Joint program with ITREB - 3 year old program being piloted in Chicago jointly with ITREB

  10. What is ECDC? Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) formerly knows as Project PIAR is designed for families with children under the age of six years. ECDC’s focus is on Parental Involvement during the early childhood years

  11. ECDC’s underlying principles:Positive, Informed Active and Regular Involvement of Parents P Positive: Parents need to have a positive attitude towards parenting their children. They need to have a vision of possibilities, so that they can move in that direction.

  12. ECDC’s underlying principles:Positive, Informed Active and Regular Involvement of Parents IInformed: Once parents are informed about the possibilities, they can engage in discussions concerning what they want for their children. In the birth to three program we give parents information on a monthly basis.

  13. ECDC’s underlying principles:Positive, Informed Active and Regular Involvement of parents AActive: Parents can align their intentions, establish priorities, set goals, define the tasks and a time line to actively pursue their goals together.  Suggestions for active involvement with children are given in every session.

  14. ECDC’s underlying principles:Positive, Informed Active and Regular Involvement of parents R Regular: Parents become involved with their children on a daily basis; establish routines, play and learn together and make behavioral changes in a consistent and regular manner.

  15. ECDC Structure National

  16. ECDC Structure Local

  17. ECDC Center Team JK Principal Operations B-3 Operations 3-6 Special Projects Staff MIS Mentor Resource Coord. Educators

  18. Assessment • Educator’s (EdReps) Assessment • EdRep mentors • Child Assessment • HELP checklist and Battelle Screening (EdReps) • Once a year official Battelle assessment (Trained staff) • Parent Assessment • (Monthly journals and EdRep observations)

  19. Session2

  20. Revised Curriculum Content has been updated New-easier to use format has been created The Lesson Plans and Handouts will be available on the internet through a password protected website.

  21. Sample Handout 26 New format • Child Development • Practical Parenting • Journals • Supplemental Notes Some handouts also make references to: • Updated Research • Suggested Books for Reading • 40 Developmental Assets

  22. Lesson Plans • Outcome • Stretching and relaxing • Video clips • Handout • 125 Brain Games • 1 page handout • MM Journals • Activities -Samples of home made books (include samples in monthly toy/resource boxes)

  23. Role Play Time for Fun! Let us unscramble information in our brains and put it in perspective. Sit back and relax!

  24. Monthly Handouts and Lesson Plans Download from Shared Site https://shared.eduonline.net/PIAR_Edreps/ User: PIAR_Edreps login: piaredreps password:  P!@rEdrepsb6!

  25. How Do We… Personal Refection: 1. …Improve our services? What role can you play? Group Discussion 2. …Bring ECDC to every family? Specifically to parents who have access to internet resources

  26. Discussions Q & AEvaluations

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