Great classrooms and programs begin with well-trained staff members who are enthusiastic about implementing the curriculum effectively. To build a high-quality program and successfully implement curriculum, it is crucial to offer ongoing learning opportunities for professional development.

Teaching Strategies offers on-site professional development designed to help your program implement the curriculum or to help your teachers reach the next level.

To support your ongoing staff 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.