Children's Enrichment Enterprises, Inc
Early Childhood Professional Development
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Training Brochure

January-April 2012
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September-December 2011
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Training Interest Survey
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Registration Form
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Pre-Service Certification Courses
Maryland Model for School Readiness Courses (MMSR)
Frederick County
45-Hour School-Age Methods
and Materials Course
(Curriculum)
March 7-April 25, 2012
Mondays & Wednesdays
6:45-9:45 p.m.
Held at
Educare Learning Center
(formerly Dandelion Child Care)
2538 Jefferson Pike  
Jefferson, MD  21755
Fee $300 (includes text)
Contact us for more details
45-Hour Infant/Toddler Methods &
Materials Course (Curriculum)
January 4-February 22, 2012
Mondays & Wednesdays  
6:45-9:45 p.m.
Held at
Educare Learning Center
(formerly Dandelion Child Care)
2538 Jefferson Pike  
Jefferson, MD  21755
Fee $300 (includes text)
Contact us for more details
45 Hour Preschool Methods
and Materials Course
(Curriculum)
October 31-December 21, 2011
Mondays & Wednesdays
6:45-9:45 p.m.
Held at
Educare Learning Center
(formerly Dandelion Child Care)
2538 Jefferson Pike  
Jefferson, MD  21755
Fee $300 (includes text)
Contact us for more details
Montgomery County
45 Hour Pre-School Materials
Course (Curriculum)
Class Dates TBA
Monday & Wednesday
6:45-9:45 p.m.
Fee $300 (includes text)
Contact us for more details
45-Hour Child  Development
Course (
Birth-Age 12)(Pre-school,
Infant/Toddler &
School- Age)
Class Dates TBA
Mondays & Wednesdays
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Fee $300 (includes text)
Contact us for more details
45 Hour Infant/Toddler
Methods and Materials Course
(Curriculum)
Class Dates TBA
Tuesdays & Thursdays
6:45-9:45 p.m.
Fee $300 (includes text)
Contact us for more details)
Held at Children in the Shoe
16910 Georgia Avenue
Olney, MD 20832
What is MMSR Domain Training? MMSR Domain Training (6-hr Modules):
All classes are held 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m  (6 hrs each) Fee: $40 per person per 6-hour module
MMSR Domain Training Dates
Domain training is held at Citicorp Family Center in Hagerstown, MD from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM:
Saturday, January 21, 2012:  Social Studies                  
Saturday, March 10, 2012: Physical Development & Health
Saturday, April 14, 2012: Language & Literacy              
Frederick County
Educare Learning Center Jefferson, MD
Dates TBA Based on Interest
Washington County
The Learning Center Hagerstown, MD
Dates TBA Based on Interest
9 Hour Course Overview and Outcomes   
9 hr courses held 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Fee: $60 per person  
Core of Knowledge: Professionalism & Community
Two-Hour Workshops
Pre-certification
Courses:
Pre-Certification Courses may be
taken as a 45-hr Child
Development Course and a 45-hr
Curriculum Course for
Pre-school, Infant/Toddler or  
School-Age, to meet the 90-hr
requirement in each area.
Frederick County
Educare Learning Center Jefferson, MD
First Aid Renewal Course
Dates TBA Based on Interest
Washington County
The Learning Center  Hagerstown, MD
First Aid Renewal Course
Monday, January 16, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
All classes are held 6:00-8:30 PM   Fee $30 per person
Frederick County
Educare Learning Center Jefferson, MD
CPR Renewal Course
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Washington County
The Learning Center  Hagerstown, MD
CPR Renewal Course
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
All classes are held 6:00-8:30 PM   Fee $30 per person
First Aid Courses
CPR Courses
*All Frederick County Two-Hour Workshops are held at Educare Learning Center in Jefferson, MD
**All Washington County Two-Hour Workshops are held at The Learning Center in Hagerstown, MD
Core of Knowledge Workshops Available at Your Location
Printable List of Workshops     Printable List of Workshops with Outcomes
KEY: CD-Child Development  COMM-Community  CURR-Curriculum  HSN-Health, Safety, Nutrition  PROF-Professionalism  SN-Special Needs

SEFEL - CORE OF KNOWLEDGE WORKSHOPS
  • Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children: Labeling Emotions - CD      
  • Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own Behavior-CD
  • Impact of Language Differences on Classroom Behavior - CD
  • Logical Consequences to Inappropriate Behaviors - CD
  • Promoting Positive Peer Social Interactions - CD
  • Fathers and Father-Figures: Their Role in Children’s Social/Emotional Development - COMM
  • Helping Children Make Transitions between Activities - CURR
  • Helping Children Understand Routines and Classroom Schedules -CURR
  • Using Classroom Activities and Routines to Support Peer Interaction - CURR
  • Acknowledging Children's Positive Behaviors - PROF
  • Building Positive Teacher-Child Relationships - PROF
  • Expressing Warmth and Affection to Children - PROF
  • Functional Behavioral Assessment: What are Children Trying to Tell Us? - PROF
  • Strategies to Increase Peer Social Interactions: Prompting and Acknowledgment - PROF
  • Using Choices and Preferences to Promote Improved Behavior-PROF
  • Using Environmental Strategies to Promote Positive Social Interactions - PROF
  • Using Functional Communication Training to Replace Challenging Behavior - PROF
  • Helping Children Express Their Wants and Needs - SN
  • Inclusion: The Role of the Program - SN
  • Positive Behavior Support: An Approach to Address Challenging Behavior - SN
  • The Role of Time-Out In Addressing Challenging Behaviors - SN

SEFEL PARENT OR PARENT/STAFF WORKSHOPS
  • Solutions for Families: Making a Connection! - COMM
  • Solutions for Families: Making It Happen! - COMM
  • Solutions for Families: Why Do They Do What They Do? - COMM
  • Solutions for Families: Teach Me What to Do! - COMM
  • Solutions for Families: Facing the Challenge, Part 1- COMM
  • Solutions for Families: Facing the Challenge, Part 2 – COMM

OTHER CORE OF KNOWLEDGE WORKSHOPS
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
  • A Manner of Speaking: Saying I’m Sorry
  • Brain Research and Its Implications For Early Childhood Programs
  • Brain Research; Bright Beginnings for Babies
  • Braking Our Impulses: Shifting Gears to Positive Discipline
  • Building Spaces, Finding Words – Creating the Context for Positive Discipline
  • Facilitating Collaborations among Children
  • Granting Children Their Emotions
  • The Impact of Sensory Integration on Behavior: Discovering Our Best Selves
  • Infants Don’t Pretend, Do They? The Seeds of Dramatic Play
  • Instructive Discipline is built on Understanding - Choose Time In
  • Interpreting Play to Parents
  • Managing Behavior with a Creative Mind and a Playful Spirit
  • Not in Praise of Praise
  • Reality Bites: Biting At a Center
  • Using Motivation Effectively with Young Children: Fortune Cookie Philosophy
  • Using Sign Language as a Tool to Communicate
  • What’s So Positive about Positive Discipline?
COMMUNITY
  • Appreciating & Supporting Close Ties Between Child and Family
  • Family (or Parent) Conferencing: Asking and Listening
  • Family (or Parent) Conferencing: Developing Trust
  • Making Families Welcome
  • Preparing Parents for Change
CURRICULUM
  • A Joyful Journey to Literacy: The Great Debate
  • Building Character through Community Service
  • Choosing Courage in a Climate of Fear
  • Conversations with Children: The Common Thread on Our Work
  • How Children Build their Understanding of Numbers
  • Learning through Music: The Support of Brain Research
  • Math in Early Childhood
  • Play and the Outdoors: What’s New under the Sun?
  • Promoting Humor in Early Childhood Programs
  • Recycled Materials
  • Supporting Constructive Play in the Wild
  • Understanding Diversity and Promoting Anti-Bias Curriculum
HEALTH, SAFETY, NUTRITION
  • Becoming a Sun-Safe Child Care Center
  • Breastfeeding Promotion in Early Care and Education
  • Exclusion of Children with Fevers from Child Care
  • Hand Hygiene in Early Care and Education Settings
  • Maintaining a Hygienic Environment: Six Tips for Germ Control
  • Nutrition and Child Development
  • SIDS: Saving Babies in Our Communities
  • Who Needs This Mess? Family-Style Meals
PROFESSIONALISM
  • Assessing Mathematical Learning
  • An Introduction to Action Research
  • Designing and Creating Natural Play Environments
  • Docia Shares a Story about Making Rules
  • Great Places to Be A Baby: Infants and Toddlers Learning Environments
  • How Do I Relate and Share Professionally?
  • Managing Work & Home Responsibilities
  • Meaningful Work for Young Children
  • NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct & Statement of Commitment
  • Observation: The Primary Tool in Assessment
  • The Power of Observation.
  • Promoting Healthy Development in the Consumer Culture
  • Recognizing the Essentials of Developmentally Appropriate Practice
  • Supportive Social Learning
  • Time Out: How it is Abused: What It Could/Should Look Like
  • Using the Power of Nature to Help Children Heal
  • What Assessment Means to Early Childhood Educators?
SPECIAL NEEDS
  • Art for All Children – A Conversation about Inclusion
  • Gain a Greater Understanding of ADHD
  • Learning Materials for Children of All Abilities: Begin with Universal Design
  • Positive Strategies for Children with Sensory Integration Challenges             
  • The Wide World of Early Childhood Education: Programs for Vulnerable Children
  • Using Your Senses to Adapt Environment
9 Hour Pre-Service Communications Training Course
Training Opportunities
NEW!  Social-Emotional Foundations of Early
Learning (SEFEL) Training (Pre-School &
Infant/Toddler)
(6.5 hrs each)  Fee: $40 per person per module
NEW!  5 Modules of Infant/Toddler
Assessment Trainings
(6 hrs each)  Fee: $40 per person per 6-hour module
CSEFEL Infant/Toddler Modules Training Dates:
CSEFEL Infant/Toddler training is offered at The Learning Center, 535 Summit Avenue, Hagerstown, MD 21740
from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM, $40 per module:
  • Module 1: Saturday, February 25, 2012
  • Module 3: Saturday, January 7, 2012 (rescheduled from December 10, 2011)
CSEFEL Preschool Modules Training Dates:
CSEFEL Preschool training is offered at The Learning Center, 535 Summit Avenue, Hagerstown, MD 21740
from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM, $40 per module:
  • Module 1: Saturday, January 28, 2012
  • Module 2: Saturday, March 24, 2012
  • Module 4: Monday, January 16, 2012 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM (Held at Educare Learning Center,
    Jefferson, MD)
CSEFEL & Infant Toddler Assessment Training
What Program Directors Should Know About The Maryland Model for School Readiness
(MMSR) Training  (4 hrs each) Fee: $30 per person per 4-hour module
MMSR training for Directors is offered in Frederick County at the Educare Learning Center (formerly Dandelion),
2538 Jefferson Pike, Jefferson, MD 21755 (8 miles west of Frederick on Route 340);
Washington County at The
Learning Center, 535 Summit Avenue, Hagerstown, MD 21740; and
Montgomery County at the Rockville
Nursery School & Kindergarten (Rockville Christian Church), 301 Adclare Road, Rockville, MD 20850.  All modules
are held from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Directions to Locations
MMSR Director Training Dates: TBA Based on Interest
Frederick County
Educare Learning Center Jefferson, MD
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Washington County
The Learning Center  Hagerstown, MD
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Other Location
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Citicorp Family Center, Hagerstown, MD
Contact us for information
Medication Administration Training Information  
All classes are held 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM   Fee $60 per person
Core of Knowledge: 6 hrs. Health, Safety & Nutrition
NEW!! Medication Administration Training
NOTICE to Child Care Facility
Operators and Family Child
Care Providers:
Effective July 1, 2011:
(1) Whenever children in care are
present, there shall be at least one
center employee present who has
completed medication administration
training approved by the office.
(2) Medication may be administered
to a child in care only by an employee
who has completed approved
medication training.  

This regulation shall not apply if:
(1) The center employs a registered
nurse, licensed practical nurse, or
medication technician certified by the
Maryland Board of Nursing to
administer medication to children in
care;
2 Hr Trainings Available
at Your Location:
Minimum cost for a 2-hour on-site
workshop is $350 for up to 20
trainees.
NEW!! Healthy Beginnings Training
MSDE’s Healthy Beginnings: Supporting Development & Learning (Birth -Three Years)
(6.0 hrs each)  Fee: $40 per person per module    All Modules are held on Saturdays from 9 AM - 3 PM
Frederick County  
Educare Learning Center Jefferson, MD
Module 1: Friday, April 6, 2012 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Washington County  
The Learning Center Hagerstown, MD
Module 1:  Saturday, April, 28, 2012
Please note: The time for weeknight 2-hr Core of Knowledge workshops has changed to 6:30 -8:30 PM (instead of 7-9 PM)
November 2011
Frederick County*
Washington County**
Impact of Language Differences on Classroom
Behavior
Tuesday, November 29  6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development Fee $20
Impact of Language Differences on Classroom
Behavior
Tuesday, November 8  6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development, Fee $20
  Facilitating Collaborations Among Children
Tuesday, November 22 6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development, Fee $20
December 2011
Frederick County*
Washington County**
Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own
Behavior
Tuesday, December 20  6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development Fee $20
Helping Children Learn to Manage Their Own
Behavior
Tuesday, December 6  6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development, Fee $20
  Braking our Impulses: Shifting Gears to
Positive Discipline
Tuesday, December 13 6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development, Fee $20
Updated 11/20/11
January 2012
Frederick County*
Washington County**
  Brain Research: Bright Beginnings for Babies
Tuesday, January 10 6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development, Fee $20
  Strategies to Increase (Children's) Peer Social
Interactions
Tuesday, January 26 6:30-8:30 PM
Professionalism, Fee $20
February 2012
Frederick County*
Washington County**
  Family Conferencing: Developing Trust
Tuesday, March 6 6:30-8:30 PM
Community,  Fee $20
  The Role of Time Out in Addressing
Challenging Behavior
Thursday, March 22 6:30-8:30 PM
Special Needs, Fee $20
Frederick County*
Washington County**
  Interpreting Play to Parents
Tuesday, February 7 6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development,  Fee $20
  Expressing Warmth & Affection to Children
Thursday, February 23 6:30-8:30 PM
Professionalism, Fee $20
March 2012
Frederick County*
Washington County**
  Granting Children Their Emotions
Tuesday, April 10 6:30-8:30 PM
Child Development,  Fee $20
  Using Environmental Strategies to Promote
Positive Social Interactions
Thursday, April 26 6:30-8:30 PM
Professionalism, Fee $20
April 2012