Inservice ideas?

Question

I work at a daycare. I have to come up with at least a few inservice ideas. My boss's specific questions is this....In the area of education at staff meeting, what would you recommend as topics for inservices? We tend to do our inservices once a month at staff meetings. We've done child abuse & even scrapbooking. I'm at a loss. Can you give me any inservice ideas? I've tried googling it but I'm not getting much.

Answer 1

Our in services consist of everything from child curriculum specialists which focus on age appropriate learning, to a child and family psychologist answering questions from the staff on subjects consisting of children in the classroom to their own issues.

Be sure your speaker is not boring, if he or she can keep the attention of their audience the in service will be a great success,

Also, one  very popular in service idea is time and stress management in the classroom!

Answer 2

I agree with Geri

She is correct!

Answer 3

I am a reading specialist.  I strongly recommend you bring in someone to talk about developing phoneme awareness in young children.  It is the greatest predictor of success in reading.  It is most often strictly oral activities although phoneme awareness coupled with letter recognition is even more powerful in develping pre-reading skills.  When my own children were preschoolers, I can tell you that all the word play really paid off.   All four of my children were very early readers, one as young as three years old.  They were reading chapter books when their peers were learning the alphabet.

You might also bring in someone to talk about reading aloud to children, engaging their interest in books, discussing the rich vocabulary in children's books.  Reading books is the best way to prepare them for a lifetime of learning.  

This is a good website for beginning reading, phoneme awareness activities, lesson plans for emergent reading, letter recognition, etc.

http://www.auburn.edu/rdggenie