Children's Enrichment Enterprises, Inc
Early Childhood Professional Development
What Program Directors Should Know About MMSR  Printable Info Page
Children's Enrichment Enterprises, Inc
Early Childhood Professional Development
What Program Directors Should Know About MMSR  Printable Info Page
Children's Enrichment Enterprises, Inc
Early Childhood Professional Development
Social-Emotional Foundations of Early Learning (SEFEL) Training:
Infant/Toddler & Preschool Modules
PROMOTING THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE OF YOUNG CHILDREN

PRE-SCHOOL MODULES
Pre-School Module 1 – Promoting Children’s Success: Building Relationships and
Creating Supportive Environments – 6.5 Hours
Topics included in this module:
• Building positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues
• Designing environments, schedules, and routines
• Establishing rules
• Implementing activities that promote child engagement
• Modifying and adapting materials and activities to meet the individual needs of all children, including those
with disabilities
• Providing encouragement and positive feedback to children

Pre-School Module 2 – Social Emotional Teaching Strategies – 6.5 Hours
Topics included in this module:
• Identifying teachable moments
• Facilitating the development of friendship skills
• Teaching problem solving
• Teaching children to recognize and express emotions
• Teaching anger management

Pre-School Module 3a – Individualized Intensive Interventions: Determining the Meaning of
Challenging Behavior – 6.5 Hours
Topics included in this module:
• Identifying the function of challenging behavior
• Identifying behaviors and social skills to target for intervention

Pre-School Module 3b - Individualized Intensive Interventions: Developing a Behavior Support
Plan – 6.5 Hours
Topics included in this module:
• Developing a plan for supporting social emotional development and preventing challenging behavior
• Using a team approach to addressing challenging behavior and social emotional needs

Pre-School Module 4 – Leadership Strategies – 6.5 Hours
Topics included in this module:
• Identifying challenges and barriers to implementing effective practices
• Identifying strategies for addressing barriers and challenges
• Developing program policies and staff development plans that promote the use of effective practices
• Identifying steps to collaborative planning for programs and systems that support all young children’s social
emotional development and address
challenging behaviors as needed



INFANT/TODDLER MODULES
Infant/Toddler Module 1 – Social Emotional Development within the Context of Relationships – 6.5
Hours
Topics included in this module:
• the importance of relationships to early social emotional development in infants and toddlers.
• the elements of social emotional wellness in infants and toddlers (precursors to preschool goals).
• key developmental concepts that impact the social emotional development of infants and toddlers.
• the importance of families to the social emotional development of infants and toddlers.
• the importance of caregiver self-awareness to the positive social emotional development of infants and
toddlers and to supporting families rearing
infants and toddlers.
• key social emotional needs of infants/toddlers

Infant/Toddler Module 2 – Responsive Routines, Environments, and Strategies to Support
Social Emotional Development in Infants and Toddlers – 6.5 Hours
Topics included in this module:
• why it is important to be intentional about supporting social emotional development in infants and toddlers
• the importance of caregiving routines and identify strategies for using them to support social emotional
development
• key ways in which the physical environment can promote social emotional development in infants and
toddlers
• examine the environments in which they work and begin to make plans to enhance them to meet the needs
of infants and toddlers in care
• define emotional literacy and describe the kinds of interactions between adults and infants and toddlers
that support emotional  literacy
• identify strategies for helping to build social skills in infants and toddlers

Infant/Toddler Module 3- Individualized Intervention with Infants and Toddlers: Determining
the Meaning of Behavior and Developing Appropriate Responses – 6.5 Hours
Topics included in this module:
• the relationship between behavior and the communication of distress for infants and toddlers
• the characteristics of challenging behavior for infants and toddlers
• acting out and social withdrawing behaviors exhibited by infants and toddlers
• family circumstances, including maternal depression, that can have an impact on the social emotional
development of  infants and toddlers
• steps for working with parents in addressing concerns about infant and toddler behavior
• explore the effect of infant or toddler behavior on the caregiver and identify ways in which the caregiver
can use her reflections to understand and
effectively address the needs of the child
• use a process for developing and implementing a support plan to respond to challenging behavior


SEFEL training is offered at the Educare Learning Center (formerly Dandelion), 2538 Jefferson Pike,
Jefferson, MD 21755 (8 miles west of Frederick on Route 340) from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM; and The Learning
Center, 535 Summit Avenue, Hagerstown, MD 21740.

FEE = $40 per person per Module.
Your Location: Any of these SEFEL Trainings can be offered at your location for a minimum of $800 for up
to 20 trainees.