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CCR Trainings for a Fee -

Summer 2008

  • More trainings added all the time - check back soon! 

  • ALL trainings meet State Licensing and CDA requirements.

 DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MOMENT TO REGISTER!  CCR will cancel classes with low enrollment.  

 

Guidance and Discipline in School-Age Child Care

Instructor: Rose Chandanais, MA, Mott Community College

  • Assess the physical environment in the classroom in relation to positive and negative behaviors of children in care

  • Plan a developmentally appropriate daily schedule

  • Identify ways to build positive relationships with individual children

  • Develop appropriate ways to create and enforce limits (rules)

  • Cost:  Non-partners - $20   CCR Partners - $15  

  • None Scheduled

Resilient Children

Instructor: Rose Chandanais, MA, Mott Community College

  • NONE SCHEDULED

  • Identify common stresses felt by children

  • Identify protective factors and ways to develop them

  • Plan strategies to develop positive relationships with children

  • Plan strategies to assist children in managing emotions

  • Cost: Non-partners - $20 CCR Partners - $15  

Paul Rheaume presents Science for Preschoolers

  • Cost:  Non-partners - $25 per class         CCR Partners - $20 per class

3 classes in September at CCR in Kalamazoo:  3 classes in October at Our World for Children in Battle Creek:

September 3, 2008 - Chemistry with Kids

  • A fun science class with recipes, science activities, and suggested books to launch your fall season programs.

    • Instructor: Paul Rheaume

    • 6:30-9:00pm

    • Wednesday, September 3

    • Child Care Resources, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

    • Cost:  Non-partners - $25 per class         CCR Partners - $20 per class

    • REGISTER

September 10, 2008 - Fun and Easy Physical Science

  • Learn safe and simple experiments in motors, batteries, air pressure, and construction of moving toys. 

  • Open ended experiments will stretch your children’s imaginations and learning.

    • Instructor: Paul Rheaume

    • 6:30-9:00pm

    • Wednesday, September 10

    • Child Care Resources, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

    • Cost:  Non-partners - $25 per class         CCR Partners - $20 per class

    • REGISTER

September 17, 2008 - How to Build Equipment

  • Good equipment helps create a good learning environment. Yet at the end of the month, there is little in the budget to purchase equipment.

  • Learn to make cool classroom and science equipment with PVC pipe and fittings for a fraction of the retail costs. 

  • Participants will make a piece of equipment to take home.

    • Instructor: Paul Rheaume

    • 6:30-9:00pm

    • Wednesday, September 17

    • Child Care Resources, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

    • Cost:  Non-partners - $25 per class         CCR Partners - $20 per class

    • REGISTER

October 2, 2008 - Fall Science Festival

  • Learn some fun science techniques to perk up your fall activities. 

  • Easy to do experiments, tie-ins with fall curricula, literacy connections, and outdoor activities will revitalize your classroom.

    • Instructor: Paul Rheaume

    • 6:30-9:00pm

    • Thursday, October 2

    • Our World for Children, 114 East Minges Road, Battle Creek

    • Cost:  Non-partners - $25 per class         CCR Partners - $20 per class

    • REGISTER

October 9, 2008 - Native Americans of Michigan

  • Explore the heritage and culture of Michigan’s first citizens.  

  • Fun stories, easy to construct equipment and nature activities will highlight the program. 

    • Instructor: Paul Rheaume

    • 6:30-9:00pm

    • Thursday, October 9

    • Our World for Children, 114 East Minges Road, Battle Creek

    • Cost:  Non-partners - $25 per class         CCR Partners - $20 per class

    • REGISTER

October 16, 2008 - How to Build Equipment

  • (same as September 17 in Kalamazoo)

  • Good equipment helps create a good learning environment. Yet at the end of the month, there is little in the budget to purchase equipment.

  • Learn to make cool classroom and science equipment with PVC pipe and fittings for a fraction of the retail costs. 

  • Participants will make a piece of equipment to take home.

    • Instructor: Paul Rheaume

    • 6:30-9:00pm

    • Thursday, October 16

    • Our World for Children, 114 East Minges Road, Battle Creek

    • Cost:  Non-partners - $25 per class         CCR Partners - $20 per class

    • REGISTER

 

Sticks and Stones: No Bullies Allowed!

Instructor: Toby Ward, foster parent, limited license social worker and certified K-12 Special Education teacher

  • Bullying is common among children of all ages, but it shouldn’t be acceptable. Does your center or program have a solid and correctly marketed anti-bullying policy in place? This course will help you build your center’s anti-bullying policy from the ground up or help you to keep your existing policy current. Although this course is geared for school-age programs, the material presented can easily be adapted to younger ages.

    • Thursday, August 21 - Full - Wait List only

    • 6:30 - 9:00pm

    • Battle Creek, Little Friends Child Care

  • Cost: Non-partners - $20   CCR Partners - $15  

  • Full - Wait List only

Pretend and Build: Let's Have Fun!

INSTRUCTORS: CCR's Therese Armstead or Ann Miller

 

Pretend Play - 2.5 hour training

  • Benefits of Pretend Play

  • Developmental stages of pretend play

  • Enhancing pretend play

  • Explore 3 aspects of pretend play: miniature life figures, kitchen/housekeeping area, themes

Blocks - 2.5 hour training

  • What do children learn in block play

  • Stages of block play

  • How caregivers can construct children’s knowledge through block play

  • How to extend learning through blocks

COST for each 2.5 hour Training:  $20 Non-Partners    $15 CCR Partners

REGISTER NOW

 

Take either or both of these 2.5 hour trainings at one of two locations  

BERRIEN COUNTY

Pretend Play:

Monday, August 25

6:30pm - 9:00pm

BISD, Berrien Springs

Blocks:

Wed., August 27

6:30 - 9:00pm

BISD, Berrien Springs

Music & Movement for Preschoolers - 2 hour training

INSTRUCTOR: Ann DiJulio, CHUM Preschool

  • NONE SCHEDULED

  • Music and movement activities promote body
    awareness, coordination and brain  stimulation in preschoolers

  • Gather some new ideas and expand on some
    old classics

  • Ideas on how to make/buy simple props to accompany simple songs, fingerplays and Nursery Rhymes

  • Come ready to participate in singing and FUN!

COST for 2 hour Training:   $20 Non-Partners    $15 CCR Partners

Working with Families - 5 hour training

INSTRUCTORS: CCR's Therese Armstead or Ann Miller

  • The importance of relationships. 

  • How culture may affect Relationships. 

  • Effective ways to work with families.

None scheduled 

 

COST for 5 hour Training:   $40 Non-Partners     $30 CCR Partners

 

Music with Susan Harrison - 10 hour training

INSTRUCTOR: Susan Harrison

 

1.0 CEU available for a fee - Must complete all 10 hours.

 

Take any or all of these 4 - 2.5 hour trainings!

 

Igniting the Creative Spirit - 2.5 hour

Tuesday August  5

6:30 - 9:00pm

CCR, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

 

Improvin’ by Movin’ - 2.5 hour

Tuesday, August  12

6:30 - 9:00pm

CCR, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

 

Easy Does it Songs that Teach - 2.5 hour

Tuesday, August  19

6:30 - 9:00pm

CCR, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

 

Puppetry for Everyone - 2.5 hour

Tuesday, August  26

6:30 - 9:00pm

The Barn, Kalamazoo  

7199 East MN Ave. Kal, MI 49048

 

COST for each 2.5 hour Training:   $20 Non-Partners    $15 CCR Partners

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Beyond the Basics - 10 hour training - Take any or all of these Four 2.5 hour trainings!

INSTRUCTORS: CCR's Therese Armstead or Ann Miller

 

There is NO Pre-Requisite for this training!

1.0 CEU available for a fee - Must complete all 10 hours.

 

Observations - 2.5 hour training

Monday, September 8

6:30 - 9:00pm

CCR, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

  • Understand the need to make written observations of children in care.

  • Become familiar with several different forms of child observations/assessments

  • Practice ways to make observations and learn how to use the information that is collected.

 

Creative Expression - 2.5 hour training

Monday, September 15

6:30 - 9:00pm

CCR, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

  • Become aware of different types of creative expressions

  • Understand the need children have to express themselves

  • Learn how to help foster creativity through open-ended, child directed activities

 

Literacy in Young Children - 2.5 hour training

Monday, September 22

6:30 - 9:00pm

CCR, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

  • Understand the stages of language development of children

  • Become aware of ways to foster language development and promote literacy

  • earn creative activities that promote language and literacy

 

Becoming an Advocate for Children - 2.5 hour

Monday, September 29

6:30 - 9:00pm

CCR, 3304 Mindi Lane, Kalamazoo

  • Learn what it means to be an advocate for children

  • Become familiar with the different ways to advocate

  • Learn why advocacy is an important part of caring for children

COST for each 2.5 hour Training:  $20 Non-Partners    $15 CCR Partners

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Stop, Look and Listen: Positive Guidance Works! - 5 hr training

INSTRUCTORS: CCR's Therese Armstead or Ann Miller

  • Identify reasonable and respectful consequences

  • Understand the causes for inappropriate behavior

  • Focus on Prevention, Focus on the Positive

Thursdays, September 18 AND September 25

6:30 - 9:00pm

Harper Creek Kids Center, Battle Creek

 

COST for 5 hour Training:    $40 Non-Partners   $30 CCR Partners

REGISTER NOW