Preschool Educator Training Plan
GETTING STARTED
Welcome to our comprehensive Preschool Educator Online Training Plan designed to elevate your skills an educator! Follow these simple steps to get started:
- Access the Courses: Click on the links provided to access the courses in the training plan on CLI Engage. If you don’t have an account yet, you’ll need to create one (it’s free!).
- Follow the Course Structure: Our training plan is divided into three levels, each aligning with the levels of the Early Childhood Educator credential. We recommend taking the courses in order to maximize your learning experience.
- Earn Certificates: After completing each course, you’ll receive a certificate to acknowledge your achievement.
- Ready to begin? Click on the first course link and start your journey today!
RECOMMENDED TRAININGS FOR LEVEL I CREDENTIAL
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: Social and Emotional Learning
Social Emotional Learning introduces ways teachers of pre-K children can express warmth, comfort children in distress, label feelings, engage in back and forth play and use praise to support children’s development of self-concept, self-control, social competence, and social awareness.
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: Setting the Stage for Children’s Talk
Setting the Stage for Children’s Talk introduces ways teachers of pre-K children can extend children’s language through responsiveness, descriptive communication, scaffolding and modeling, and engaging in convsersations, to support children’s language development.
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: English Language Learners: Culture, Language, Instruction
English Language Learners: Culture, Language, Instruction introduces ways teachers of pre-K children who are English language learners can consider linguistic and cultural individuality and extend children’s language through responsive, descriptive communication, scaffolding and modeling, and engaging in conversations, to support children’s language development.
RECOMMENDED TRAININGS FOR LEVEL II CREDENTIAL
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: Building Vocabulary
This training focuses on developing and enhancing theme-based vocabulary instruction for pre-kindergarten children.
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: Read Aloud
This training focuses on planning and leading effective read alouds. It includes research-based techniques for extending the benefits of read alouds throughout the day and week and presents read alouds as a cornerstone of children’s literacy.
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: Early Childhood Mathematics
This training presents strategies and rationale for supporting mathematics development in early childhood classrooms.
2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines Domain 1: Social and Emotional Development
This is a training on Domain 1: Social and Emotional Development in the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines. The course provides prekindergarten teachers with an introduction to the Social and Emotional Development domain, end-of-year outcomes, and instructional strategies to support children’s skill development.
2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines Domain 9: Physical Development
This is a training on Domain 9: Physical Development in the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines. The course provides prekindergarten teachers with an introduction to the Physical Development domain, end-of-year outcomes, and instructional strategies to support children’s skill development.
Core Competency Area 1: Child Growth and Development
In this course series you will learn about the professional competencies found in the Texas Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners and Administrators, developed by the Texas Head Start State Collaboration Office (THSSCO), in collaboration with the Texas Early Learning Council (TELC). The content and structure of the competencies can be thought of as a framework for assessing knowledge and skills, guiding training and professional development opportunities, and monitoring progress. This version of the training was designed for use by early childhood practitioners.
Core Competency Area 2: Responsive Interactions and Guidance
In this course series, you will learn about the professional competencies found in the Texas Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners. The content and structure of the competencies can be thought of as a framework for assessing knowledge and skills, guiding training and professional development opportunities, and monitoring progress. This version of the training was designed for use by early childhood practitioners.
Core Competency Area 3: Learning Environments, Planning Framework, Curriculum, and Standards
In this course series, you will learn about the professional competencies found in the Texas Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners. The content and structure of the competencies can be thought of as a framework for assessing knowledge and skills, guiding training and professional development opportunities, and monitoring progress. This version of the training was designed for use by early childhood practitioners.
Core Competency Area 4: Supporting Skill Development
In this course series, you will learn about the professional competencies found in the Texas Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners. The content and structure of the competencies can be thought of as a framework for assessing knowledge and skills, guiding training and professional development opportunities, and monitoring progress. This version of the training was designed for use by early childhood practitioners.
RECOMMENDED TRAININGS FOR LEVEL III CREDENTIAL
Core Competency Area 5: Observation and Assessment
Observation and Assessment is a course that addresses the core knowledge and skills needed to understand the goals, benefits, and uses of observation and assessment in early childhood settings, including identifying children’s readiness and intervention needs, guiding instruction, and using data to improve program quality.
Diversity and Dual Language Learners
Diversity and Dual Language Learners is a course that addresses the core knowledge and skills needed to create culturally inclusive early childhood environments that respect each child’s home culture, reduce bias, promote diversity and equity, and help practitioners honor and value all children and families in their care.
English Language Learners: Culture, Language, Instruction
English Language Learners: Culture, Language, Instruction explores how culture shapes children’s learning and oral language development, introduces stages of language development and second language acquisition, and highlights evidence-based instructional strategies teachers can use to support ELLs in early childhood classrooms.
Pre-Kindergarten Response to Intervention
Pre-Kindergarten Response to Intervention focuses on designing, creating, and managing warm, structured classroom environments where children develop a love of learning, learn to manage their behavior, and build independence in work and play.
Understanding Special Needs
Understanding Special Needs focuses on understanding and supporting children with special needs who struggle with behavior and attention regulation, social and emotional responses, and receptive and expressive language development.
Partnering with Families and Promoting Positive Communication
Partnering with Families and Promoting Positive Communication covers strategies and resources that help teachers and program leaders build strong home-school partnerships, promote positive communication, and reduce barriers to meaningful family engagement.
Domain 2: Emergent Literacy Language and Communication
Emergent Literacy Language and Communication introduces Domain 2 of the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines, including end-of-year outcomes and instructional strategies that help prekindergarten teachers support children’s emergent literacy, language, and communication development.
Domain 3: Emergent Literacy Reading
Emergent Literacy Reading introduces Domain 3: Emergent Literacy Reading in the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines, including end-of-year outcomes and instructional strategies that help prekindergarten teachers support children’s emergent reading development.
Domain 4: Emergent Literacy Writing
Emergent Literacy Writing introduces Domain 4: Emergent Literacy Writing in the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines, including end-of-year outcomes and instructional strategies that help prekindergarten teachers support children’s emergent writing development.