Great Teachers Lead to Great Starts
EOT&TA trainers travel throughout the state, covering everything
from “Early On 101” to creating partnerships with parents.
Embedded in the year’s schedule are five mandated areas of
focus: Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP); transition services;
embedding services in the natural environment; procedural safeguards;
and developing evaluation tools. Stand-alone training events take
a variety of forms:
- By request—if a specific training is desired by a service
area—how to do a child observation study, perhaps—then
the team schedules a time to do that training on site.
- Regional training offerings—If many service areas need
a specific training, in developing evaluation tools, for example,
EOT&TA will offer a session in a central location within
the region, allowing for more efficient delivery of services
and to provide a chance for professionals to network.
- Early On® Institutes—Three-day trainings on the
basics of the Early On® system.
- System update meetings—held quarterly in 4 locations
throughout the state, to give up-to-date information about Early
On® and a forum for networking.
- Annual Early On Conference--with tracks for new, intermediate
and more experienced providers. “We try to keep it meaningful
for all and keep people continually improving,” said Banfield.
- Annual LICC Leadership Conference
“We’re theme people,” said Banfield, with a smile.
“We like to arrange all our events around a subject people
can relate to. Last year we did a growth theme, with lots of talk
about sowing seeds, planting for success, growing cultural competencies—topics
like that. Our visuals tended to be garden related.”
For more information, visit www.ccresa.org/eotweb.
To request training or technical assistance or to suggest topics
for future trainings, call (866) 334-KIDS. |
