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Complete the next step in becoming a FCCB Partner Facilitator. Each Partner Facilitator Curriculum course covers one FCCB curriculum topic. Participants will review curriculum facilitation demonstrations online and attend a live Zoom session to practice facilitating the topic. Following successful completion participants will receive access to that FCCB curriculum topic, and permission to facilitate workshops using the curriculum materials. Registration is by invitation only, and is limited to those who have already completed Introduction to Family Child Care at Its Best for Partner Facilitators.

Begin the two-step process to become a FCCB Partner Facilitator and facilitate FCCB workshops for your local community. This course provides the foundational knowledge for facilitating adult learning in diverse groups, and implementing the Family Child Care at Its Best (FCCB) curriculum. After completing this course, you will eligible to enroll in topic-specific FCCB Partner Facilitators Workshop Curriculum courses.

Practice reflections to better understand unconscious bias and its relationship to children’s behavior. Analyze assessment tools and explore ways to use child observations to support children, families, and program development.

Explore the origins of children’s behavior, including how biological factors, early childhood settings, family dynamics and, the greater community influence a child’s social emotional development.

Use a preventative approach to challenging behavior and plan activities that promote pro-social skills. Learn specific strategies, using the environment and adult-child interaction, to facilitate friendship and build community.

Focuses on the emotional impact of loss and trauma on young children and explores the provider’s role in helping children cope with stressful events, such as divorce, separation, and changing caregivers.

Participants will engage in strategies to benefit mixed-age children in a group setting as well as how to create a safe place for all ages to learn and grow.

Self-assess and explore risk perception through individual differences and global perspectives. Consider child benefits of risk in the development of their physical, cognitive, and social skills. Learn strategies to support children’s positive risk taking.

Supports the multiple roles of the home-based child care provider by reflection, thinking, and planning for quality home-based programs. Self-assess areas of growth opportunities and formulate an action plan to implement in the home care setting.

Focuses on the movement and perceptual-motor skills that young children are motivated to learn and practice. Includes brain development and caregiver relationships to support children’s lifelong health and well-being.

Focuses on supportive communication and participation in activities to help children develop behaviors that lead to healthy living, making food choices, maintaining personal safety, and oral health.

Offers an opportunity to discuss how providers can include children with special needs in their program and work with families.

Provides an opportunity to learn skills that maximize providers’ ability to establish healthy communication and trust with parents and other caring adults in the lives of children.

Learn about different ways young children become bilingual, the advantages of being bilingual and the myths and truths related to this topic.

Gain increased understanding and competence in methods for supporting emerging language and literacy capabilities, using a child-centered approach, and developing and offering a print-rich environment.

Gain increased understanding to help children integrate the written language conventions and meaning. Guidance to use appropriate techniques and encourage all children to support writing of native and non-native English language speakers.

Examine ways to provide a rich science environment for children. Using hands on techniques to explore every day science and practice principles of inquiry and documentation that enhance discovery and scientific learning.

Examine ways to provide a rich math environment for all children. Gain techniques that build developmentally appropriate math knowledge and skills in early childhood.

Focuses on the emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development of infants and toddlers and the supportive role of the caregiver. Gain an increased understanding of the role of relationships and emotional development in learning.

Focuses on the impact of culture in the lives of children, families, and child care providers. Emphasis on the role of child care providers in establishing daily routines and practices that support development and help each child form a healthy cultural identity.

Addresses the social emotional characteristics, biological traits, and environmental influences on children’s behavior. Increase understanding of behavior as communication and provides practical suggestions for helping children manage their behavior.