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SPECIALIZED TRAINING AND READINESS SOLUTIONS
Mini University is pleased to announce the launch of STARS: Specialized Training And Readiness Solutions.

Individual Class Detail

Class Name: Language and Literacy Development for Infants/Toddlers and Two’s – Pt. 1 & 2
Instructor: TBD
Age Group: Infant / Toddler
Date: Saturday 7/10/2010
Time: 9:00 AM -12:00 PM & 12:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: Job Center
Credit: Licensing
Cost: $15

Class Description:
Must Attend Both Modules for credit – no partial credit given

Participants will learn through video, group discussion, lecture and handouts ways to support infants, toddlers and twos in language development. Ideas will be discussed for future practices with an intentional focus on language and literacy. Participants will explore writing development and sound awareness through songs, rhymes, chants, fingerplays and musical instruments. Participants will learn how to choose books for infants, toddlers and twos.

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The Job Center
Accessible from both I-75 and US-35, the Job Center - Dayton is located at 1111 S. Edwin C. Moses Blvd, Dayton, 45408. If you have questions, please contact 937/225-5627. More information and a map here http://www.thejobcenter.org/contact-us.html

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Step Up To Quality
Step Up To Quality is a voluntary Three-Star Quality Rating System that recognizes and promotes early care and education programs that meet quality benchmarks over and above minimum health and safety licensing standards. The steps are based on national research identifying the key benchmarks that lead to improved outcomes for children. These benchmarks include low child to staff ratios, group size, accreditation, staff education, specialized training, improved workplace characteristics and early learning standards.

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Ohio's Infant & Toddler Guidelines (ITG):
Why are these guidelines important? Because early experiences last a lifetime and infancy is the morning of life...

The guidelines are seen as the critical first step to ensuring that all Ohio children, birth to three, have responsive, reciprocal and respectful care. And as a result of that care, children will be ready for both school and life. There are 1,892 days from the time babies are born until they enter school. This 1,892 day journey is remarkable, complex and far reaching. Approximately 150,000 babies are born every year in Ohio: who they spend time with and how they are cared for affects who they will become.

Read more and download your own copy of Ohio's Infant & Toddler Guidelines: www.occrra.org/guidelines.htm

Promoting Social and Emotional Competence:
Mini University is proud to offer 4 modules to address the social-emotional needs of young children. 5 hours per module (20 hours total) of ODE approved credit and SUTQ approved specialized training are available. This research-based professional development is targeted for PRESCHOOL, KINDERGARTEN and SCHOOL AGE teaching staff. These modules were created by the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning.

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