In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Planning Your Family Child Care Environment, participants will learn to describe and identify strategies to create a family child care environment that supports multiple uses, including: providing quality care for a mixed age group of children, managing a successful home business, and meeting the needs of their own family.

Topics include:

• Foundations of effective planning
• Environmental health and safety
  
• Importance of the daily schedule
  
• Planning your outdoor learning environment
• Furniture and material selection

Contact Hours: 2 hours          Gateways Content Area: CPD (2 hours)          CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours) 

In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Developmentally Appropriate Technology Use in Your Family Child Care Home, participants will review guidelines and research about developmentally appropriate technology use, identify strategies for incorporating technology into their family child care home, and explore technology resources for their program.

Topics include:

• Child-Centered Approach to Technology Use
• Enhancing Exploration
• Integrating Technology Into Your Program
• Using Assistive Technology
• Using Appropriate Apps

In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Technology in the Family Child Care Environment: Ensuring Appropriate Use, Security, and Safety, participants will be able to identify strategies that ensure safe, secure, and appropriate use of technology.  You will learn to explore strategies to document as well as communicate through technology in your program.

Topics include:

• Appropriate Use
• Security
  
• Safety
• Using Technology to Document and Plan
• Developing a Technology Policy

Contact Hours: 2 hours          Gateways Content Area: CPD (2 hours)          CDA Content Area: Program Management (2 hours)   

In this training, Family Child Care Credential: Creating Your Family Child Care Routines and Schedules, participants will learn to describe the importance of routines and schedules in a family child care program, identify essential components of effective routines and schedules, and create sample routines and schedules that will support healthy development, learning, and well-being in a family child care program.

Topics include:

• Importance of Routines and Schedules
• Balancing Needs
• Developing Effective Schedules
• Daily Routines
• Transitions

The Early Math Counts training program is a series of eight courses focusing on early math content and application in settings that provide care and education for young children.  The Introduction will provide you with information regarding the importance early math skills and knowledge for young children, an overview of the major content areas in early math and an orientation to the Early Math Counts Professional Development series, as well as a tour of the many resources available on the Early Math Counts site. 

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Making Sense of Number Sense is the second course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the orientation course before taking this 2nd course in the series. The development of strong skills associated with this broad concept is indicative of later mathematical achievement as well as later success in school. Much of what we will cover in this module is foundational and is used in other mathematical areas. As you move through the rest of the Math at Home modules, you will see how Number Sense informs other broad mathematical concepts.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Contact Hours: 1 hour    Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Patterns is the third course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children.  Understanding patterns is a foundational skill for developing algebraic thinking.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Shapes and Spaces is the fourth course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children. This course focuses on the math concept of geometry.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Math Counts Professional Development Program courses before you take this course:

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Measure for Measure is the fifth course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children. This course focuses on measurement, which is a mathematical skill that children will use nearly everyday of their lives.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Math Counts Professional Development Program courses before you take this course:

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Data Collection and Analysis is the sixth course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children. As you move through this module you will see how natural and appropriate it is for young children to ask questions that can be answered via data collection. Once you see all of the possibilities relative to this broad concept, you will be amazed at how engaging and thought-provoking this is for even very young children.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Math Counts Professional Development Program MATH courses before you take this course:

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Math Processes is the seventh course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children. If you completed the previous courses, you are now familiar with early math content areas, such as number, patterns, geometry, measurement, and data analysis. The processes of mathematics go hand in hand with the content areas and are critical to young children and their understandings of mathematics.

Please make sure to take the following Early Math Counts Professional Development Program courses before you take this course:

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Environments is the eighth course in an eight-part series designed to support math competencies in teachers of young children. Understanding how to recognize and create a math rich environment is key to creating successful math experiences for children.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Math Counts Professional Development Program MATH courses before you take this course:

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

The Early Science Matters professional development program is a series of nine courses focusing on early science content and application in settings that provide care and education for young children.  The Introduction will provide you with information regarding the importance early science skills and knowledge for young children, an overview of the major content areas in early science and an orientation to the Early Science Matters Professional Development series, as well as a tour of the many resources available on the Early Science Matters site. 

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Curiosity and Wonder is the second course in a nine-part series designed to support science competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the Introduction course before taking this 2nd course in the series. Curiosity and wonder is central to young children’s science explorations and learning. In this course we will examine what curiosity and wonder are and how they can support children in all areas of early science.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Science Matters Professional Development Program course before you take this course:

Course 1: Introduction

Engineering is the third course in a nine-part series designed to support science competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the Introduction course before taking this 3rd course in the series. Engineering supports children’s development of problem-solving skills while rooted in scientific understandings of how things in the world work, and how children can plan, design, and create as an engineer. Science and engineering processes are explored within the engineering design process to support children’s active explorations.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Science Matters Professional Development Program course before you take this course:

Course 1: Introduction

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Beginning Skills, Processes, and Tools is the fourth course in a nine-part series designed to support science competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the Introduction course before taking this 4th course in the series.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Science Matters Professional Development Program course before you take this course:

Course 1: Introduction

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Force and Motion is the fifth course in a nine-part series designed to support science competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the Introduction course before taking this 5th course in the series.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Science Matters Professional Development Program course before you take this course:

Course 1: Introduction

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Physical Properties is the sixth course in a nine-part series designed to support science competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the Introduction course before taking this 6th course in the series.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Science Matters Professional Development Program course before you take this course:

Course 1: Introduction

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Growth and Change is the seventh course in a nine-part series designed to support science competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the Introduction course before taking this 7th course in the series.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Science Matters Professional Development Program course before you take this course:

Course 1: Introduction

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)

Earth, Air, and Water is the eighth course in a nine-part series designed to support science competencies in teachers of young children.  Please make sure to take the Introduction course before taking this 8th course in the series.

This training provides 1 contact hour of Gateways Registry-Approved training and 1 Continuing Professional Development Unit (CPDU).

Please make sure to take the following Early Science Matters Professional Development Program course before you take this course:

Course 1: Introduction

Contact Hours: 1 hour     Gateways Content Areas: CPD (1 hour)     CDA Content Areas: PI (1 hour)