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Training for Parents

Online Parent Trainings

2022-2023 Parent Training Letter

Steps to complete your parent training:
1. Please choose ONE training topic below.
2. Next, click on the training title to watch desired training.
3. After participating in the training, please complete the corresponding Quiz/Evaluation.
4. Finally, please click the button at the end of the quiz/evaluation to submit your responses to Smart Start staff.
5. After Smart Start staff has reviewed your quiz/evaluation, your certificate of completion will be emailed to you.
6. If you would like training handouts, please email the title of your training to
jand@partnershipforchildren.org.

2022-2023 Carta sobre Capacitaciones para Padres

Los pasos para completar su capacitación para padres:
1. En este momento, sólo tenemos una capacitación en español: Hablar Es Enseñar: ¡Léemelo!
2. Podemos presentar cualquier de las demás capacitaciones en español bajo pedido.
3. Por favor, haga clic en el título de la capacitación para verla.
4. Después de participar en la capacitación, complete la prueba/evaluación correspondiente.
5. Finalmente, haga clic en el botón al final de la prueba/evaluación para enviar sus respuestas a Smart Start.
6. Después de que el personal de Smart Start haya revisado su prueba/evaluación, se le enviará sucertificado de finalización por correo electrónico.
7. Los folletos que corresponden a la capacitación están disponibles bajo pedido

 

 

 

Helping Children Understand Their World (all age children)


Come and learn some hands-on activities to do with your child that will help them understand their world.
 
Quiz & Evaluation Helping Your Child Understand Their World

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Bright Beginnings: Supporting Your Infants Development (Birth-12 months) NEW


This workshop will provide you with valuable knowledge regarding your infants growth and development. Tips and strategies will be shared to improve your child’s development.
Quiz & Evaluation Bright Beginnings: Supporting Your Infants Development

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Beyond Babyhood: Supporting Your Toddler's Development (12 months-3yrs) NEW


This training will provide parents/guardians with noteworthy developmental mlestones and activities for toddlers to help them learn and grow.

Quiz & Evaluation Beyond Babyhood: Supporting Your Toddlers Development 12 months-3yrs

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Ready For School Success: Supporting Your Preschooler's Development (3yrs-5yrs) NEW


This training will provide parents/guardians with strategies and tipe to improver their child’s Preschool Development and be ready to succeed in school.
Quiz & Evaluation Ready for School Success

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Communicating with your Infant/Toddler: “Talking Sense” (Infant/Toddler children)


“Talking Sense” children already have all the tools they need to learn about their world: their 5 senses. Just about anything they see, hear, feel touch or taste can springboard excitement.

Quiz & Evaluation Communicating with Your Infant & Toddler – Talking is Teaching

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Talking is Teaching: Read to Me (Infant/Toddler children)


Reading strategies and tips on shared reading to highlight the fun and joy that reading together can bring.

Quiz & Evaluation Talking is Teaching Read To Me

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

The Value of Play (preschool age children)


Learn about all the things children learn while they are playing!
Quiz & Evaluation The Value of Play

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Social Emotional Behavior (Dealing with Challenging Behaviors) (preschool age children)


Your child develops in many different areas simultaneously. Social emotional development refers to how your child learns to manage and express their emotions and interact with others. Their social/emotional growth as an infant or toddler affects their development in all other areas, and will have an impact on their relationships with others.

Quiz & Evaluation: Social Emotional Behavior

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Hablar Es Enseñar: ¡Léemelo!


Hoy un lector, mañana un líder. Leer y hablar son unas de las cosas más beneficiosas que puede hacer para fomentar el desarrollo de la mente y de las habilidades del pensamiento en los bebés y niños pequeños. La lectura y el hecho de hablar con su niño/a lo preparan para tener éxito en la escuela y más tarde en el trabajo. Este entrenamiento le ofrece una serie de estrategias y juegos sencillos que puede utilizar con su hijo/a durante algunos minutos cada día para aprovechar al máximo los beneficios de la lectura y prepararle a su hijo/a un futuro exitoso.

Prueba/Evaluación

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Eating and the Young Child


Creating a healthy eating environment, both at home for your infant or toddler is the best way to help him or her develop healthy eating habits that will likely last into adulthood.

Quiz & Evaluation Eating and the Young Child

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Math At Home


Learn strategies that you can use in your home to increase and develope your child’s math skills.
Quiz & Evaluatioin Math at Home

Hour Training

Please fill out an evaluation form with each training:

Contact Us

Smart Start of Davidson County
803  W. Center Street
Lexington, NC 27292
  • Phone: (336) 249-6688
  • Fax: (336) 249-6687
  • Email: MaryD@partnershipforchildren.org

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Contact Us

Smart Start of Davidson County
803 W. Center Street
Lexington, NC 27292
  • Phone: (336) 249-6688
  • Fax: (336) 249-6687
  • Email: maryd@partnershipforchildren.org

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