Attention Prechool Directors. If you had to do plan a staff training & devolopement program for 1yr,what topic

Question

I need to come up with 3 topics to implement in a staff training program for preschool teachers. This for a college course and I'm stuck.My plan must include goals, costs, type of training ,lenghth of training etc... any ideas would be great or references of resources I could go to.

Answer 1

What a great assignment!

I know my son's preschool has inservice each year to make sure their curriculum aligns with the county's Kindergarten expectations.  Perhaps you could propose to invite the local school district's director of Early Childhood Education to speak about changes in their curriculum to assure alignment.

Here is an additional source about transitioning: http://www.serve.org/TT/p&kteach.html

With childhood obesity such a "in topic" you may be able to find a lot of resources on that as to ways to teach kids healthy habits.

Also, with many schools going to full-day K, many K's are expected to come into K ready to read if not reading already.  I'd do something on early reading, etc.  Perhaps something with differentiated instruction.  Here is a course from a reading conference for preschool teachers:

Differentiated Instruction: Grouping for Reading Success

"Effective preschool reading teachers recognize that students have a wide variation in skill attainment. This session is designed to help teachers of preschoolers assess students’ skills, place them in groups and provide differentiated instruction that maximizes progress."

Also - try these links:

http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/Preschoo...

Answer 2

Physcology should be included.

Then Hygene

After that First Aid or

Basic Medicine Course.

Answer 3

I am still studying various aspects of montessory kids development system. I would have been very much pleased if I could give better answer. But I looked that first three answers received by you are very good. The owners of pre school have their designations as Directors, this is happened in Ahmedabad only. I think you are from Ahmedabad city.

Answer 4

Check out this website that has a list of current trends in education....obviously not all of them will be applicable to preschool teachers but the site may help you brainstorm and get ideas!

http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrend...

I used to teach preschool and some of the staff development programs we had were:  

1> classroom management!!!!

2>developmental stages (to help staff understand differences in ages and stages of preschoolers)

2>diversification in the classroom

3>health and safety