ECE Professional Learning

Targeted Office Hours NEW!

ADE ECE is now offering Targeted Office Hour sessions on specific Early Childhood topics. These will be open to the entire ECE field and will be offered twice a month. No registration is needed for these sessions. Please add to your calendar as a reminder and join below!

Live Training Schedule

FY23 Live Training Schedule

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2022 8:30AM - 11:30AM

Program Guidelines: Daily Routines & Schedules (2-hr)

When establishing a structure for consistent, predictable classroom routines and schedules, the needs of children are taken into consideration to ensure the environment is interesting, stimulating, and inviting. This session explores best practices and what that looks like in early care and education settings.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2022 11:00AM - 1:00PM

Program Guidelines: Family Engagement & Support (2-hr)

In a high-quality early education program, frequent two-way communication is established and maintained, and families are presented with multiple opportunities to participate in activities and decisions that concern their children. This session will explore what that looks like in practice and will allow participants to clarify expectations and define best practices within their program.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 6:00PM-8:00PM

Challenging Behaviors (2-hr)

Explore what challenging behaviors and identify some of the causes as well as be able to implement proactive strategies to help prevent and reduce challenging behaviors in the classroom.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 9:00AM-11:00AM

Strengthening Families Protective Factors: Introduction (2-hr)

Provides an overview of the Strengthening Families™ Protective Factors Framework and how to implement a strength-based theory using the five protective factors to improve outcomes for all children and families.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 9:00AM-12:00PM

ACEs and Trauma Module 1: Understanding ACEs (2-hr)

Participants will learn to identify examples and categories of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), explain the significance of the ACEs study, understand how a high ACE score might be a strong predictor of later health problems in adults, and understand the story of ACEs told through national and Arizona data.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 9:00AM-11:00AM

Phonological Awareness (2-hr) * NEW!

In this two hour session, participants will actively explore the Language and Literacy Standards and the concept of phonological awareness.  Participants will learn the importance of phonological awareness in early childhood learning environments and be able to implement activities in their classroom.

WEDNESDAY, October 12, 2022 9:30AM-12:00PM

AZELS Social Emotional Development (4-hr) 

Provides a deeper understanding of the Social & Emotional Development Standard of the AZELS and strategies to apply both explicit and indirect teaching practices to support children’s positive social and emotional development. Participants will learn how to utilize principles from the Pyramid Model, teach emotional literacy skills, and design a safe, social-emotionally rich learning environment for all children.

SATURDAY, October 22, 2022 9:00AM-11:00AM

CLASS: Quality of Feedback (2-hr) 

Take a closer look at the CLASS Dimension: Quality of Feedback. Explore back and forth exchanges, persistence, and follow-up questions within this dimension and what this looks like in the classroom. This training is adapted from the Teachstone CLASS Overview Training Module.

30-min Intro Online Courses

Introductory Online Courses (30 min)

Intro to Infant Toddler Developmental Guidelines (ITDG) (30-min)

This course provides an introduction to the  five domains of the Infant and Toddler Developmental Guidelines (ITDG) and how to use the guidelines to provide responsive caregiving and quality learning experiences for all children birth to 3 years of age in early care and education settings.

Intro to Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) (30-min)

This course provides an introduction to the eight standards within the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) and how to use the standards to provide an instructional foundation for all children 3-5 years old in early care and education settings.

Intro to Program Guidelines for High Quality Early Education (30 min)

The course provides an introduction to the Program Guidelines for High Quality Early Education: Birth through Kindergarten and will help participants develop a working knowledge of the guidelines to support their program be better prepared to help young children succeed.

Cursos de Español

CURSOS INTRODUCTORIOS EN LÍNEA (30 MIN)

Introducción a las Directrices para el Desarrollo del Bebé y del Infante (ITDG) (30 min)

Este curso proporciona una introducción a las Pautas de desarrollo para bebés y niños pequeños (ITDG) y cómo usar las pautas para proporcionar cuidado receptivo y experiencias de aprendizaje de calidad para todos los niños desde el nacimiento hasta los 3 años de edad en entornos de atención y educación temprana.

Introducción a los Estándares de Aprendizaje Temprano de Arizona (AZELS) (30 min)

Este curso proporciona una introducción a los ocho estándares dentro de los Estándares de Aprendizaje Temprano de Arizona (AZELS) y cómo usar los estándares para proporcionar una base de instrucción para todos los niños de 3 a 5 años de edad.

1-hour Online Courses

1-hour Online Courses

ITDG Social Emotional Development (1-hr) 

This course focuses on the Social & Emotional Development Domain of the Infant Toddler Developmental Guidelines (ITDG) including early brain research in relation to social and emotional development and how to create a social-emotionally rich environment for infants and toddlers.

ITDG Approaches to Learning (1-hr) 

This course focuses on the Approaches to Learning Domain of the Infant Toddler Developmental Guidelines (ITDG) including an introduction to early brain research in relation to approaches to learning and how to foster initiative, creativity, and problem solving skills in infants and toddlers.

ITDG Language Development & Communication (1-hr)

This course focuses on the Language Development & Communication Domain of the Infant Toddler Developmental Guidelines (ITDG) including an introduction to early brain research and how to build the language and communication skills of listening, speaking, and emergent literacy in infants and toddlers.

ITDG Cognitive Development (1-hr) 

This course focuses on the Cognitive Development Domain of the Infant Toddler Developmental Guidelines (ITDG) including a connection to early brain research and how to foster exploration, build memory skills, and support reasoning and problem-solving through imitation and symbolic play.

AZELS Social Emotional Development (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of the Social & Emotional Development Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) and an introduction to the Pyramid Model to provide behavior supports, along with strategies to foster positive social and emotional development in children age 3-5.

AZELS Approaches to Learning (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of the Approaches to Learning Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to foster curiosity, confidence, creativity, and problem solving skills in children age 3-5.

AZELS Language & Literacy (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of the Language & Literacy Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to build language, emergent literacy, and emergent writing skills in preschool age children.

AZELS Mathematics (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of the Mathematics Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to foster counting, operations, measuring, and geometry skills in preschool age children.

AZELS Science (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of the Science Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to foster scientific inquiry and application skills in preschool age children.

AZELS Physical Development Health & Safety (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of the Physical Development, Health & Safety Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to promote healthy physical development, appropriate hygiene practices, and safety measures in the environment and the classroom for preschool age children.

HQPG: Family Engagement & Support (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of Program Guideline 5: Family Engagement & Support from the Program Guidelines for High Quality Early Education: Birth through Kindergarten including specific ways to more fully and effectively engage with families involved in your program.

AZ School Readiness Framework (1-hr)

This course provides an overview of the Arizona School Readiness Framework and its key components such as research-based curriculum and assessment, high-quality kindergarten transitions, and the importance of family engagement.

Ongoing Progress Monitoring (1-hr)

This course is designed to show the importance of ongoing progress monitoring within the early childhood education system. The four stages of the assessment cycle are outlined to include high-quality practices that support children’s outcomes, family engagement, and programmatic decision making.

2-hour Online Courses

2-hour Online Courses

ITDG Language Development & Communication (2-hr)

This course takes a closer look at the Language Development & Communication Domain of the Infant Toddler Developmental Guidelines (ITDG) including the connection of early brain research to language and communication development and provides effective strategies for supporting listening, speaking, and literacy-rich experiences for infants and toddlers.

AZELS Social Emotional Development (2-hr)

This course provides a closer look at the Social Emotional Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including the tiers of the Pyramid Model to provide behavior supports, and instructional strategies for fostering positive social emotional development in in children age 3-5.

AZELS Approaches to Learning (2-hr)

This course provides a closer look at the Approaches to Learning Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to implement the strands within the Standard as well as strategies to support executive function skills and cognitive flexibility in children age 3-5.

AZELS Language & Literacy (2-hr)

This course provides a closer look at the Language & Literacy Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to build language, emergent literacy, and emergent writing skills and how to design a literacy-rich environment for preschool age children.

AZELS Mathematics (2-hr)

This course takes a closer look at the Mathematics Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to foster counting, operations, measuring, and geometry skills along effective strategies for implementing math skills in all standards of early learning for preschool age children.

AZELS Science (2-hr)

This course takes a closer look at the Science Standard from the Arizona Early Learning Standards (AZELS) including supports to foster scientific inquiry and application skills, as well as strategies for designing a science-rich environment for preschool age children.