Infant Toddler Program Training Opportunities
The Infant Toddler Team can facilitate FREE state-approved trainings for infant and toddler teachers. All trainings can be presented virtually or in-person at your location. Participants are not allowed to count within classroom ratios during training sessions. Trainings vary in length from 1 to 6 hours.
For training requests, contact infanttoddler@decal.ga.gov
Training topics include:
- Challenging Behavior
- Early Math Skills
- Intentional Planning
- Intentionally Teaching
- Introduction to Brain Development
- More than Just Routines
- Responsive Caregiving
- Social Emotional Development: Building Relationships
- Transitions and Routines
- Understanding Temperaments
- The Engaging World of Infants and Toddlers series (more details below)
| Training Title |
# of Hours |
Challenging Behavior
Participants will understand how routines can be used as teaching moments and how to use language to reduce challenging behavior. |
3 |
Counting on You: Early Math Skills for Infants and Toddlers
Participants will learn about the importance of building early math skills and math development with infants & toddlers. |
2 |
Intentional Planning
Participants will learn the importance of lesson planning and the impact it has on a child’s development. |
12 (Six two-hour sessions) |
Intentional Teaching
Participants will understand how to plan in a way that meets the individual needs of children. |
6 |
Introduction to Brain Development
Participants will learn how early experiences affect the development of brain architecture, identify factors that support & foster brain development, and identify early risk factors of healthy brain development. |
1 or 2 |
More than Just Routines
Participants will examine their current teaching practices around caregiving routines and their impact on infant and toddler learning. |
1 or 2 |
Responsive Caregiving
Participants will learn how to "tune in" to children and what they are telling you to meet their needs. |
1 or 2 |
Social-Emotional Development: Building Relationships and the Learning Environment
Participants will learn the importance of building a relationship with children and understand how to create classroom environments that are nurturing and responsive to children’s needs. |
6 |
Transitions and Routines
Participants will understand how transitions and routines can be used as teaching moments. |
3 |
Understanding Temperament with Infants and Toddlers
Participants will learn the definition of temperament & how it can impact the children's behavior & development |
1 or 2 |
