Quality Training at an Affordable Price
Work & Family Consulting, Inc. is proudly committed to offering current, relevant, hands-on training to child care professionals. Our seminars are guaranteed to introduce providers to new ideas, to present topics in fresh & updated ways, and to provide a fun and relaxing training experience.
If you are a Center Director looking for positive training experiences for your staff, Work & Family Consulting, Inc. will deliver it.
Review our list of currently available on-site continuing education seminars below. If you have a particular interest in a topic not currently listed, call us to discuss a customized training event which will meet the individual needs of your program.
With the consultants currently providing training services through Work & Family Consulting, we are able to offer on-site seminars in the Green Bay/Fox Valley area, Oshkosh/Fond du Lac area/Manitowoc area, and surrounding communities. Special arrangements may be made for other areas of the state.
All classes are 2 hours in length unless noted.
Classes may be scheduled Monday through Saturday daytime, evening or naptime with the exception of Friday and Saturday evenings.
Full day training may also be requested. Generally, 3-4 sessions are presented during a full day training. Activities are planned between sessions to create a fun and relaxing atmosphere for participants.
Contact us soon to schedule your 2011 training events!
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Work & Family Consulting, Inc. On Site Continuing Education Classes
A Fresh Look at Positive Guidance: This session focuses on positive methods of guiding children in early childhood programs. Activities include examining ways to promote positive behavior in classrooms through prevention, rule-setting, etc., positive guidance techniques, positive verbal guidance, and examining logical consequences.
Ages & Stages of Children’s Development: As children progress through the various stages of development, there is usually a positive and a negative side to each stage. This session will focus on recognizing different (expected) stages of children’s development and positive ways providers can help children successfully move through them.
Beginning Together: Infant & Toddler Care: So many miraculous things happen to babies in their first two years of life. This class examines the uniqueness of infants & toddlers and the uniqueness of the role of the professionals who provide care for them. Topics include the effects of adult/environmental stress on infants & toddlers, suggestions for multi-tasking in the infant room, exploring infant & toddler behaviors and the implications for staff interactions, and setting up an age-appropriate environment and activities.
Care & Concern for Children in Crisis: When crisis comes into the lives of the children you care for, what is the right thing to say? What is the right thing to do? This class will focus on what to say, what not to say, and how to provide care for children in a crisis. Discussion will include life events such as moving, death , terminal illness, sudden loss of a parent, abuse/addiction, divorce, etc.
Child Abuse & Neglect: This is a perfect refresher course for staff on child abuse and neglect. This session meets the Wisconsin DCF training requirements for child abuse & neglect.
Child Growth & Development: Birth-Kindergarten: This session will provide a solid overview of the basic principles of child development. Games and activities are included to transform this basic area of knowledge into a fun learning experience.
Conducting Effective & Developmentally Appropriate Group Times: Most early childhood programs have at least one large group meeting per day. This inservice will help providers spice up their group times and motivate children to participate. Age-appropriate group times and activities are emphasized and many new ideas are presented.
Cooperative Caregiving: Professional Practice in Child Care: This session focuses on the expectations of child care staff in offering quality programming, preventing gossip, and having a “winning attitude.” Recommit yourselves to being professional!
Creative Activities for Children: This class is meant to motivate classroom staff to begin adding ideas for working with children of all ages that cover all of the 6-8 typical learning centers in an early childhood classsroom. Activities will include introducing new activities, brainstorming new activities and will end with a make-and-take time. Bring your markers, glue & scissors!
Creating Culturally Sensitive Classrooms: The early childhood environment has a great impact on a child’s ability to learn. Recognizing similarities and differences among people, exploring various cultures, integrating the development of social skills into the curriculum, and involving families are ways to support culture in a classroom. This class helps teachers to understand how to create an manage a culturally sensitive classroom which will create an environment where each child can grow to his or her potential.
Cuttin’ Up in Class: Creative Art Activities for Children: Understanding the value of creative art experiences is the main focus of this session. Participants will receive first-hand experience on the recommended ways to facilitate creative art experiences, set up the art center, and new ideas for art!
Discovering & Managing Personal Communication Styles: In this session participants will survey their personal communication styles, become aware of the diversity in communication styles, and discuss how to take personal responsibility for themselves and their styles of communication. They will also look at “calms & storms” and how to manage themselves through them.
Developing Leadership Skills in Children: The Role of the Teacher: Good teachers can be good leaders and this session examines the leadership skills teachers may possess or may need to develop in order to be a good leader for children and to help children learn to be good leaders themselves.
Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum Planning for Infants & Toddlers: One of the many important roles of infant & toddler teachers is to intentionally plan for each child’s individual development. This class explores the aspects of creating a developmentally appropriate curriculum for infants and toddlers. Topics include quality programming, primary care giving, spiral curriculums, choosing relevant themes and planning activities and enrichments for all areas of the classroom.
Don’t Let Burnout Douse Out Your Fire!: Making a commitment to the children and families in your program requires a certain level of passion. It’s hard work. his training focuses on ways to prevent burnout: time management, positive work atmosphere, relationships, etc. Included here are great ideas for implementing the change you need to light up that fire again!
Early Childhood Environment: A Powerful Teaching Tool: The learning environment is a powerful teaching tool which helps children develop and learn. This class examines the fixed & flexible aspects of classrooms when planning arrangements, the characteristics of optimal learning environments, ways to multiply the number of learning experiences and ways to create spaces which currently do not exist in a classroom.
Getting Along: Helping Staff Appreciate Their Different Temperaments: Can we really classify people according to their temperaments? Human behavior is complex and unpredictable, but having knowledge about different temperament types and the behaviors associated with them can help employees appreciate their differences. This class explores Kiersey’s 4 temperaments, the behaviors associated with each, and ways to cope with each others’ differences.
Hitting & Spitting…I’m Quitting! This brainstorming session is solution-focused, not problem-focused. There are 4 main reasons why children typically display inappropriate behaviors such as hitting, spitting, biting. tattling and swearing. After a brief review of positive guidance techniques participants will create strategic plans for using positive methods of guidance to begin changing specific inappropriate behaviors they are dealing with in their classrooms.
I’m So Angry! Helping Children Identify & Manage Their Angry Feelings: In today’s world, learning to cope with angry feelings in a positive way may be one of the most important tools to give a child. This class will share information on how to help children identify their feelings and will equip participants with activities for use in helping children learn to express and deal with their anger in a positive way.
Infant Attachment & Bonding: When infants and toddlers have parents and caregivers who respond to their needs a secure attachment is formed. Circumstances in a child’s life may cause an insecure attachment to form. This class focuses on the importance on interaction, healthy brain development, and child care practices which form secure attachments in children.
Large Muscle & Creative Movement Activities: What can you do when the weather is not cooperating and the children are climbing the walls? Ideas will be presented for active games and activities that will burn energy for both teacher and children! This is an active class so dress for movement & comfort!
Literacy Activities & Books for Children: Crucial to the development of literacy in children is their exposure to books and other literary experiences. Be ready to have fun in this session ! Topics include, examining books, reading techniques, books without bias, making stories come alive and more.
Managing Food Allergies & Intolerances: This introductory course examines the differences between food allergies and food intolerances and explores easy ways to manage allergies in child care, including field trips, special events, classrooms and transportation. Ideas will be discussed for prevention, reading food labels, parent communication, and dealing with food intolerances.
Nurturing Self- Esteem in Children: Examine these various aspects of self-esteem: stages of development, the teacher’s role in promoting a positive self-esteem, ways to undermine the development of a healthy self-esteem, and activities which help develop self-esteem.
Observing & Recording Children’s Growth & Development: The emphasis of this session is on techniques for observing children, procedures for documenting information and ways to use the valuable information collected to create a program which meets the individual needs of the children.
Overview of the CDA Process: For those who are interested in learning more about the CDA process, this is the only stop you will have to make. A complete explanation of the procedures, a CDA timeline, and resources & tips from those who have been through the process will be presented.
Planning a Perfect Field Trip: Get ready for field trip season with this informative, hands-on continuing education session. Emphasis in selecting & planning age-appropriate field trips, safety, communication, transportation and field trip lesson plans is included.
Plugging Into Parents: This session examines ways to plug into parents with great communication systems from the start. Prevent “electrical shocks” from your families with these tried and true parent partnership activities.
Positive Staff & Child Interactions: Healthy human brain development is dependent upon positive interactions with adults and a stimulating environment. Participants will examine ways to enhance language development, positive ways of talking to children, positive interactions during transitions, and the importance of interaction during play.
Recognizing & Marketing the Strengths of Your Program: This course presents the opportunity for center staff to identify the greatest strengths of their program and how those may be different from other centers in their area. Staff will also discuss how each of these key features benefit the families and children in their center and will discover what their role is in marketing and communicating this information to current and prospective families.
Scream Your Theme!: This course presents early childhood professionals with ways to integrate a weekly theme into their program. Emphasis is placed upon choosing appropriate themes for children, planning theme-related activities & enrichments for all learning centers, and creating bulletin boards which teach & reflect your theme.
Sensory Play: More Than the Sand Table: Young children learn through their senses. In this course, teachers will learn about the “7” senses and the value of sensory play. Introductory information is presented on sensory processing disorders and sensory integration dysfunction in children. Other topics include potential safety issues, how to prevent accidents during sensory play , and many activities or suggestions for activities.
SIDS Risk Reduction Practices: This class covers the basics of risk-reduction in the area of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and meets the Wisconsin DCF requirements for SIDS training.
Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention: This course meets the state requirements for providers working in programs serving children 5 years of age and younger and has been approved by the Wisconsin Department of Children & Families.
Staff Relations & Teamwork: Working in such close proximity with other team members can be challenging. This inservice focuses on both behaviors that break down staff relations and those that build them up. If you are looking for a more positive work environment, here are some ideas!
Staying Safe & Healthy: This session examines how to prevent accidents and the spread of illness in your child care program. DCF licensing rules for child care and the policies of your program will be reviewed. A great refresher in a fun, hands-on presentation.
Stealing Time: Time Management for Busy Professionals: Learn the fine art of managing your time and organizing your life. Topics include setting margins of time, procrastination, organization, etc. and creating time for yourself!
Supporting Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences: Learn more about the 3 basic learning styles & 8 multiple intelligences, identifying individual learning styles for yourselves and children, adaptation of classroom environment and planning activities & transitions to meet each child’s individual style of learning.
Transition Tricks: This session examines the children’s perspectives of the schedules, routines, and transition times in their day and their value and importance in the development of children. Participants will examine fun techniques and activities to help children move smoothly between activities to prevent frustration and behavior issues.
Understanding & Working With Sensory Processing Disorders: Children with sensory processing disorders (SPD’s) need providers who understand their condition. This session is based on current research in SPD’s and provides participants with valuable insight into the signs of , behaviors associated with , activity planning for, and environmental considerations for Sensory Processing Disorders. ( The length of this class is 2.5 hours.)
Working On Wellness: Promoting Wellness in Early Childhood Programs: How would promoting wellness across the center affect an early care & education program? A attitude of wellness would, undoubtedly, have a positive effect on the children, staff and families in the program. Join us for a fun and active session which focuses on exercise, healthy eating, creating a curriculum which promotes wellness.