About GKI

Growing Great Kids™ for Preschoolers

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For Home-Based and Center-Based Programs

Growing Great Kids for Preschoolers (GGK-PS) is a uniquely interactive approach for optimizing developmental outcomes for preschool children. GGK-PS provides parents, home visitors and preschool teachers with the knowledge and skills needed to support children in forming:

• Strong self-esteem
• Curious minds capable of creative and critical thinking
• Cooperative peer relationships
• Age appropriate impulse control
• Habits foundational to healthy life styles
• Social and academic building blocks for school success

As EHS home visitors, parents, caregivers and preschool teachers progress through the GGK-PS Curriculum, they build practical skills for interacting with preschool children in ways that strengthen self-esteem, encourage cooperation, and nurture security in their relationships with the children.

Growing Great Kids for Preschoolers teaches 6 essential skill sets, the Daily Do’s for Preschoolers, which lay the foundation for nurturing care and age appropriate stimulation. When parents, caregivers and teachers consistently practice these skills, their interactions with preschool children will optimize social, cognitive, language, physical and emotional health and development.

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How can you use these materials?

• With groups of children in center or home based programs
• With individual parents and children during home visits
• In parent education groups
• For training preschool teachers and child care providers

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Growing Great Kids for Preschoolers Materials include:

• GGK for Preschoolers Curriculum Manual: Includes 24 parent/teacher education modules, aimed at enhancing their understanding of the needs and development of preschool children and how to interact with them in ways that build their self esteem, foundations for school success and ability to self-regulate.
• GGK for Preschoolers Learning Pods Manual for 3 Year Olds: Contains 200 Child Development Activities, grouped into 27 Learning-Pods, to use with 3 year old children to support their growth and to build skills in all developmental domains
• GGK for Preschoolers Learning Pods Manual for 4 & 5 Year Olds: Contains 200 Child Development Activities, grouped into 27 Learning-Pods, to use with 4-5 year old children to support their growth and to build skills in all developmental domains.
• Master sets of Parent/Teacher Handouts & Activities for Children (CD and hard copy)
• License to make unlimited copies of hard copy masters and digital copies (provided on CDs) of all Child Development Activities and Parent/Teacher Handouts & Activities
• No annual recertification fees.

It is so easy for program staff to produce GGK-PS copies in-house, making it convenient to select materials specific to the needs and interests of each family, teacher or home visitor. Our innovative curriculum design saves time for busy home visitors, parents and preschool teachers by providing them with groupings of child development activities that form a comprehensive foundation for their weekly developmental support of preschool children.

Included for each activity, for the convenience of busy teachers and home visitors:

• List of all supplies needed to facilitate your preparation
• Targeted developmental objectives addressed by activity
• Step by step activity implementation guide

GGK-PS activities are sequenced progressively to provide building blocks for literacy, peer relationships, impulse control, academic achievement, balanced nutrition, self-care, physical activity, problem solving and independent thinking.

Also See: In-House Staff Development Program

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What training is required?

Participation in a Growing Great Kids for Preschoolers Certification Seminar is required. By participating in this skill driven seminar, your staff will build competencies in the following areas:

• Understanding the development of the preschool child
• Strategies for interacting with 3-5 year old children, preventing challenging behaviors, while providing consistent, nurturing discipline
• Classroom strategies for conflict resolution and self regulation
• Keeping attachment relationships strong
• Providing children with those feelings of security essential for learning
• Fun and appropriate ways to build the foundations for academic success
• Providing children with play activities aimed at teaching self regulation and essential social skills while strengthening their self esteem
• Teaching parents, child caregivers and preschool teachers 6 essential skill sets for providing empathic care, daily stimulation, healthy nutrition and physical activity for their Preschoolers

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