ATTACHMENT A - Trainings By Topic Area Technical Assistance Early Learning Standards Integrating the Standards: Phonological Awareness This 2-hour instructor-led training is designed for VPK instructors and directors. With a focus on the key elements of early language and literacy development, participants will gain an understanding of what phonological awareness is and how it connects to reading and writing. Through demonstration and experiencing activities and materials that can be used in the classroom, learners will move through the stepby-step progression of how children acquire phonological awareness and gain practical information about how to plan activities and implement phonological awareness in the preschool classroom. Math 1: Making Sense of Sets and Numbers This 3-hour instructor-led training is designed for VPK instructors and directors but is suitable for teachers of preschool-age children. Participants will gain early math knowledge and practical information about how to structure the classroom environment and plan activities to integrate math concepts and skills throughout the learning day. The training focuses on using attributes to sort and compare sets, as well as exploring quantities, numerosity, subitizing and cardinal numbers. Math 2: Counting and Operating with Numbers This 3-hour instructor-led training is designed for VPK instructors and directors but is also suitable for teachers of preschool-age children. Participants will gain early math knowledge and practical information about how to structure the classroom environment and plan activities to integrate math concepts and skills throughout the learning day. The training focuses on the big ideas of counting and number operations such as the principles of counting, common counting errors and strategies for helping children rectify these errors, adding, subtracting, and subitizing. Math 3: Patterns, Measurement and Data This 3-hour instructor-led training is designed for VPK instructors and directors but is suitable for teachers of Preschool-age children. Participants will gain early math knowledge and practical information about how to structure the classroom environment and plan activities to integrate math concepts and skills throughout the learning day. The training focuses on using the classroom to explore patterning, using different attributes in measurement (such as length, capacity, circumference, quantifying and direct & indirect comparisons), and answering authentic questions through representing, collecting and interpreting data. Math 4: Shapes and Spatial Relationships This 3-hour instructor-led training is designed for VPK instructors and directors but is suitable for teachers of Preschool-age children. Participants will gain early math knowledge and practical information about how to structure the classroom environment and plan activities to integrate math concepts and skills throughout the learning day. The training focuses on developmentally appropriate experiences for exploring geometry and spatial relationships with young children, such as defining and analyzing 1-, 2- and 3-dimentional shapes and symmetry, and perspective-taking and visualizing space. VPK Assessment Instructional Implications This professional development is appropriate for VPK directors, administrators, and teachers who have administered the VPK Assessment. Participants will review the VPK Assessment Online Reporting System score types, reports, and instructional resources for planning instruction based on VPK Assessment data.
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