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Child Care Classroom Design Training | Create a language rich environment

Interactive Interiors: Enhancing Child Care Spaces to Support Peer Interactions and Language Development

Your child care space is full of fun activities. But that doesn’t always mean it's set up for interacting, communicating, or keeping kids engaged.
It’s time to look at your classroom in a new way. Make simple, practical shifts to your environment and how you interact with children that’ll lead to more communication, peer interactions, and group play.
In this self-paced video training, you’ll learn:
  1. How your role during interactions impacts how much children communicate.
  2. To shift into a more responsive role that gets more communication.
  3. Ways to set up your classroom environment to encourage more engagement, peer interaction, and participation throughout the day.

Use your child care space to your advantage! Directly shape how children talk, interact, and connect by setting up a language rich classroom.
ResourceS

Includes a downloadable handbook. Everything from the training all in one place, yours forever!

Inside this 42 page digital handbook you'll find:
  • Printable resources for 4 responsive partner language strategies that support communication and get your children interacting more.
  • Ready-to-use scripts to support peer interactions so children not only communicate with you, but with their peers as well.
  • Tips for setting up your physical environment to support peer interactions and language development, with picture examples.  
Training outcomes

By the end of this 3 hour | 0.3 CEU training, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the two main elements that make an interactive classroom. 
  • Name at least 1 way you can arrange the environment to promote interactions.
  • Identify the best way to group children for learning experiences.
  • Identify ways to involve children with delays in peer play.

See what early childhood educators are saying

"Everything was so clearly explained, Kelly had great actual examples to share, the training was easy to follow. I learned a lot and loved everything about this training!

I loved the opportunity to help each other and apply what we're learning in the 'teachers helping teachers' section!"
"Kelly is so engaging, gives meaningful examples and small group activities. I always enjoy trainings with Kelly.

I liked the visuals accompanying the info. They were very helpful and will be useful for later reference."
"I liked how easy it was to understand and apply the course information.

I liked how the trainer explained everything and gave real life situations that could occur in a child care and how to handle those situations."

Use your classroom setup as a third teacher

Create Spaces For Interaction
Suggestions for how to set up your classroom environment in ways that naturally increase engagement, peer interaction, and participation.
Leave Knowing Exactly What To Do
Step-by-step language strategies that help children become more involved in activities instead of standing back, watching, or avoiding participation.
Guidance from A Speech Therapist
Tips for common struggles like a child that only wants to interact with you, there are peer conflicts, or the child wont engage with their peers.

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Meet Your Trainer

Hi, I'm Kelly
A licensed Speech Language Pathologist, Early Intervention Specialist, Child Care Trainer, and Former Family Child Care Owner

I work alongside teachers every day caring for children with developmental delays, feeding challenges, speech and language disorders, and more.

I kept hearing the same thing: "Our trainings don't teach us this." So I created trainings that do! 

No fluff. Just practical strategies designed to fit naturally into everyday routines with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
Speech-language pathologist working on professional development resources for early childhood educators

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