Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Teachers and Child Care and Family Providers

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This 48-page booklet draws from scientifically-based research about what you can do to help children to develop their language abilities, increase their knowledge, become familiar with books and other printed materials, learn letters and sounds, recognize numbers, and learn to count. It also presents many examples of strategies for teaching these skills to children and includes examples of ways to create an environment that will nurture childrens natural curiosity and their zest for learning.

Filed under Early Childhood and tagged with child care high quality preschool preschool literacy family daycare numeracy on December 08, 2008 #


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Child Care Aware of Kansas

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Child Care Aware of Kansas, formerly Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, is a statewide network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (R & R's) covering all of the 105 counties in Kansas. Child Care Aware is funded by Kansas Social and Rehabilitative Services (SRS). There are sixteen regional offices in the state of Kansas. The central office is located in Salina, KS. Services provided to families include: 1. Assess the familys' child care needs through brief information gathering phone interviews. 2. Provide information on the variety of child care choices available to the family from in-home care to child care centers. 3. Provide families with useful and understandable information about quality indicators in child care. 4. Make referrals to other community services as needed and advocates on behalf of families, when appropriate. 5. Feedback received from families about satisfaction with service provided.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with child care professional development on December 05, 2008 #

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