Growing Great Kids Curriculum
for Child Caregivers (GGK-CCC)™
For Home and Center Based Childcare Providers

Great Kids, Inc. prepares teams of community childcare trainers to facilitate the training portion of the curriculum with their local caregivers (or their own staff) and to teach them how to use the Growing Great Kids materials for children and their parents.

A unique product that

• Is both a comprehensive caregiving curriculum and a training program for home and center based childcare providers who care for infants and young children.
• Implements an activity-based approach to promoting child health and safety, as well as supporting physical, cognitive, socio-emotional, and language development.
• Provides a strong emphasis on building responsive, empathic relationships with children and a values-focused approach to motivating excellence in care practices.

This participatory, comprehensive training program broadens the caregiver’s understanding of infants and young children and grows their caregiving competencies while

• Learning to use attractive, readily understood guidebooks that structure their interactions and daily activities with children and parents.
• Developing their competencies around 5 caregiving skill sets.
• Gaining an appreciation for the opportunities that every interaction with a child has for enhancing that child’s relationships, curiosity, development and self worth.
• Doing Growing Great Kids activities with children.
• Learning to use common household items and their own imaginations to enrich play and to provide a nurturing, stimulating environment.

Growing Great Kids Curriculum for Child Caregivers

• Anchors learning for caregivers by providing hands-on activities
• Includes the framework for:
  establishing strength-based relationships
  developing solution-focused conversations
• Motivates caregivers and promotes positive changes in caregiving practices

The GGK-CCC training program for caregivers is
· Engaging
· Flexible
· Easy to use

The Growing Great Kids for Child Caregivers Training Curriculum consists of 4 units, each with 7 learning modules. The Curriculum units, and the individual modules, can be presented as freestanding classes or as part of a comprehensive training program. Many of the modules are built around engaging videos that bring concepts to life and reduce preparation time for the trainer. Corresponding discussion questions and activities assist the facilitator with information integration and skill growth. Caregivers learn to use activities and caregiver/parent handouts included in their own guidebooks, that correspond to the modules listed below, to transfer learning into their daily interactions and care practices with children and their parents.

The Curriculum is divided into 4 units and includes the modules listed below each unit:

• Module 1 – The Role of the Child Caregiver
• Module 2 – Early Brain Development
• Module 3 – Fostering Secure Attachment Relationships
• Module 4 – The Role of Play in Relationships and Development
• Module 5 – Creating Safe Environments that Support Development & Healthy Relationships
• Module 6 – Relationships Between Parents and Caregivers
• Module 7 – Embracing Culture and Children with Special Needs

Unit #2: Understanding and Caring for Young Infants - 0 to 8 Months

Unit #3: Understanding and Caring for Crawlers - 9 to 18 Months

Unit #4: Understanding and Caring for Toddlers – 19 to 36 Months

• Module 1 – Fostering Secure Attachment Relationships
• Module 2 – Developmental Stages and Tasks
• Module 3 – Language Development
• Module 4 – Temperaments
• Module 5 – Activities to Support Development & Relationship Building
• Module 6 – Discipline: Setting Limits with Love
• Module 7 – Health and Nutrition

Growing Great Kids for Child Caregivers is visually engaging, simply written, and designed for emergent use. Curriculum sets include materials for the Trainer / Infant-Toddler Specialist, as well as guidebooks for Child Caregivers and handouts for caregivers and parents. The Curriculum can be used with both groups of care providers in classroom settings or during home visits with individual caregivers. The Curriculum encourages caregivers to embrace cultural diversity and children with special needs. GGK-CCC uses a strength-based and solution-focused approach to motivate caregivers and to support growth and positive change in their caregiving practices.

For more information on this superior resource for improving the quality of child care in your community, please contact:

• Linda Elliot at (715) 675-1123, Email lindae@greatkidsinc.org

Growing Great Kids Curriculum for Child Caregivers (GGK-CCC):
Train-the-Trainer Institute

• Prepares Child Care Trainers to use GGK-CCC
• Innovative and interactive
• Curriculum practice with caregivers and infants

This 5-day Train-the-Trainer Institute is an energizing experience for Trainers of Child Care providers responsible for improving the quality of childcare in their communities or at their centers. Participants will learn how to:

• Use a strength-based approach to encourage child caregivers to participate in a comprehensive training program focused on enhancing their knowledge related to infant/child care and development.
• Integrate 5 skill sets related to caregiving practices that build responsive relationships with children that support their development.
• Address concerns with caregivers using communication strategies that motivate growth and change.
• Provide a comprehensive, relationship-based training program for caregivers that will result in more sensitive, empathic care being provided in safe and stimulating environments.
• Facilitate 28 prepared caregiving training modules that can be presented as freestanding classes or as part of a comprehensive training package.
• Integrate this curriculum into classes and services currently being provided by your organization.

For information regarding enrolling in this institute,
or hosting an institute in your community,
please call 1-800-906-5581
or contact us online.

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