Teaching Strategies offers a variety of ways to teach your program's teachers to implement and use The Creative Curriculum^® for Preschool in the most effective way possible.

To support your ongoing professional development efforts, we offer the following tools and solutions:

Conferences & Sessions

Our professional development services are hands-on, practical, highly interactive, and based on sound principles of adult learning theory. Participants are given ample opportunity to explore, discover, discuss, and reflect on the concepts that have been presented. Our select, dedicated Staff Development Network Trainers are the only trainers officially endorsed by Teaching Strategies to conduct workshops on The Creative Curriculum^®.

Teaching Strategies' national conferences offer sessions on The Creative Curriculum for teachers and administrators, and all types of early childhood education programs. The Helen H. Taylor Center for Professional Development, located in our Bethesda, MD office, offers focused sessions on a wide variety of early childhood education topics.

On-Site Services

Teaching Strategies works with programs to develop a customized plan that includes

• assessment of programmatic needs
• product education and selection
• on-going professional development services

Sessions are delivered at your site program by Teaching Strategies' Staff Development Network Trainers.

A Trainer's Guide to The Creative Curriculum for Preschool^®, Volume 1: Getting Started

This resource is an indispensable tool for program directors, staff development specialists, and educators as you introduce The Creative Curriculum for Preschool to the staff in your programs. The Trainer's Guide begins with tools to help you to create a comprehensive staff development plan for your program, including creating a shared vision, determining training needs, using the Implementation Checklist, and using learning teams.

The Trainer's Guide provides a strong foundation for getting started with The Creative Curriculum. It features workshops on The Creative Curriculum and all interest areas. These workshops are a teacher's entry point into fully implementing The Creative Curriculum and creating quality preschool programs where children learn and thrive.

Mathematics

Teaching Strategies offers introductory training on math, both on-site and at our national conferences. After participating in one of these trainings, you will know how to

• define the five components of math and the five process skills that are identified in the research
• use The Creative Curriculum for Preschool structure as a decision-making tool for addressing the components of math
• plan intentionally for math learning experiences with individuals, small groups, and large groups
• connect math content with The Creative Curriculum goals and objectives
• integrate math with other content areas in interest areas and everyday activities

For the most effective implementation, there should also be follow-up training, opportunities for professional dialogue, coaching, and peer mentoring.

Literacy

Teaching Strategies offers introductory training on literacy, both on-site and at our national conferences. After participating in one of these trainings, you will know how to

• define the seven components of literacy that are identified in the research 
• use the organizational structure of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool as a decision-making tool for addressing the components of literacy
• plan for literacy learning experiences: reading aloud; storytelling; story retelling; songs, rhymes, and fingerplays; writing; and sociodramatic play
• connect literacy content with The Creative Curriculum goals and objectives
• integrate literacy with other content areas in interest areas and everyday activities
• create and use a library area with an emphasis on reading, writing, listening, and story-retelling
• make decisions about individual, small-group, and large-group literacy activities

For the most effective implementation, there should be follow-up training, opportunities for professional dialogue, coaching, and peer mentoring. Our Trainer's Guide to The Creative Curriculum^® for Preschool, Vol. 2: Literacy provides you with workshops and handouts to support your professional development efforts.

A Trainer's Guide to The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, Volume 2: Literacy

 A companion to Literacy: The Creative Curriculum^® Approach, this book provides a series of teacher workshops to help maximize literacy learning opportunities within a comprehensive curriculum.