Family child care providers face a big challenge: they must meet the needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children in the same facility, their home. Teaching Strategies helps providers design a quality program for each age group based on each child's needs in a home environment.
How Teaching Strategies can help your program:
Teaching Strategies offers curriculum resources, training manuals, and parent resource booklets to help family child care providers. For a complete list, refer to the "Related Products" list below.
Curriculum:
The Creative Curriculum® for Family Child Care
Organization is key to providing flexible and age-appropriate home environments for quality family child care. Our Curriculum shows how to organize the home environment for child care and how to plan appropriate activities with mixed-age groups in a variety of interest areas ranging from cooking to outdoor play. The book also includes important tools for organization, communication, and planning:
Audience: family child care providers, trainers, resource and referral organizations
Training:
Caring for Children in Family Child Care (2 volumes)
Caring for Children in Family Child Care contains easy-to-implement, self-paced training modules that help teach the basic skills and competencies of the profession. These modules are organized around the 13 functional areas of the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential.
An accompanying Trainer's Guide includes useful tools for supervisors as they work with staff to complete the training process:
Audience: family child care providers, trainers
More:
- A Trainer's Guide to The Creative Curriculum® for Family Child Care
- A Parent's Guide to Early Childhood Education (Spanish and Chinese also)
- The Power of Observation
- Caring and Learning (video)
