Better Kid Care (PennState Extension) provides professional development opportunities designed specifically for family child care professionals. In addition, many of our other available modules are relevant and meaningful to the work of home-based and family child care professionals. Several FREE on-demand modules are available in English & Spanish.
Audience Category: For Child Care Providers
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Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale®, Revised (FCCERS-R)
A thorough revision of the original FDCRS, designed to assess family child care programs conducted in a provider’s home for children from infancy through school-age. Scale consists of 38 items organized into 7 subscales, detailed on this website.
Resources for Opening and Running a Successful Family Child Care Home
Are you interested in opening a family child care home? Are you already running a family child care home and looking for additional resources? Child Care Aware provides guidance to learn about the steps you’ll need to take to be successful and will provide resources to ensure your program is providing a high-quality learning experience… Continue reading Resources for Opening and Running a Successful Family Child Care Home
Teacher Activity Book – B-3QI
If you are looking for fun and developmentally appropriate activities for your birth-to-three classroom, look no further! The activities included here align with all five developmental domains of the North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development (NC FELD).
Using Choice and Preferences
What is the child choice strategy, why is it important and what can you do in your classroom? Learn more in this report.
Ages & Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)
The Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ®) provides reliable, accurate developmental and social-emotional screening for children between birth and age 6. Drawing on parents’ expert knowledge, ASQ has been specifically designed to pinpoint developmental progress and catch delays in young children—paving the way for meaningful next steps in learning, intervention, or monitoring.
Strategies for Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own Behavior
By using self managing techniques, children become responsible for their actions and learn to monitor their own behavior. This report provides examples of techniques you can use to facilitate self management in your classroom.
Strategies for Helping Children Make Transitions
This report contains ideas for activities that you can use to support smooth transitions for children throughout the day.
Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own Behavior
Learn more about self-management for children and why it’s important in this report.
Strategies for Promoting Positive Interactions Between Children
Do you want to create a class family? Do you want your children to connect with only with you but also with their peers? As teachers we try to build relationships with children in our classroom but we also need to encourage relationships between the children. The simple activities listed in this report will foster… Continue reading Strategies for Promoting Positive Interactions Between Children