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Future Generation Educational Services provides staff development services to your early learning program through on site consulting and staff training workshops. To request information regarding our early childhood program consulting services please call 973-743-4034 or send us a message online.
See below for a list of our workshops:
Program Administrator Workshops
The Productive Director
A journey into a day in the life of an early childhood Director. Explore time management, delegation, walking the walk, and talking the talk.
Multi-Site Management with Ease
When you have the responsibility of managing multi-sites, your daily objectives and tasks change significantly from those of managing one center. This workshop will take a deep dive ensuring that all of the many tasks are explored and hands-on methods to make you a successful multi-site leader will be provided.
Easy, Effective, and Not So Evil Evaluations
Evaluating staff is always a challenge, how do you create a solid system and then find the time to observe and document all of the people on your team? We have your solution!
Join us to explore the art of easy, effective, and not so evil evaluations.
Policies and Procedures for Your Early Childhood Program
How to create, implement and get the buy in from your team.
Lighting Their Fire
The largest struggle we are faced with today as early learning administrators, is motivating our team! This workshop explores the difference between motivation and appreciation. Join us to take a deeper dive to explore different methods on how to reach your team members and create a harmonious work environment where your employees are refreshed, renewed, and ready to give their all.
Teamwork Essentials
We all need to work together! This session will outline the essential foundations that must be laid for a team to be successful and impactful. We will focus on intention, communication, collaboration, contribution, and so much more as we set the stage for outstanding team experiences and outcomes.
Exploring the Languages of Appreciation at Work
Take a deep dive into Gary Chapman’s 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work. Learn how to communicate with all different types of people and work together for a common purpose within your program.
Quality Begins with You
How to create and embrace culture with in your program.
The Superpower of the Middle
Calling all Emerging Leaders, this workshop is for you! Are you a leader in the classroom and want to emerge into leadership outside of the classroom? The buck may not start or stop with you, but that doesn’t mean that your leadership can’t be important or impactful. This workshop will help you identify your opportunities to influence others in positive, productive ways.
OOPS! I Did it Again!: Preventing Common Mistakes Leaders Make
An ounce of prevention is work a pound of cure! This session will take an honest look at the common mistakes leaders make that can add to our stress and diminish our quality of leadership and life.
Teaching Team Member Workshops
Developmentally Appropriate Practice and You
Learn how to understand the children that you work with. Take a deep dive into the method that will help you recognize each child as an individual.
Incorporating Play into Your Classroom
Play is essential in early childhood education. It helps children develop problem solving and decision-making skills. This workshop helps to explore the necessity of play and how it is truly serious business for young children!
Help! I have a Special Needs Child in my Classroom
This workshop will explore best practices and strategies for teaching early learners with special needs in your classroom.
Characteristics of a Classroom Leader
Every teacher brings their own strengths and unique skills to a school. They encourage others and create new leaders amongst their students and their co-workers. This workshop will focus on the characteristics of a classroom leader and will encourage participants to become reflective practitioners and create a positive culture.
Observing and Recording Children’s Behavior
This workshop is designed to help teachers better understand children’s behavior. We will outline methods for recordkeeping to paint a realistic picture of each child’s interactions and experiences in the classroom.
It’s “A Parent” They Are Our Customers
Great customer service is the foundation of any well-run established child care program. It is one thing to know that it starts with administration, but a complete other to have the follow through continue to the classroom. This workshop will help classroom personnel understand the importance of customer service and HOW they can ensure ambassadors of customer service with in their classroom.
Languages of Love and Appreciation
Take a deep dive into Gary Chapman’s 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work. Learn how to communicate with all different types of people and work together for a common purpose within your program.
Introduction to the High Scope Curriculum
Learn the basics about all sections of the Wheel of Active Learning; Child/Adult Interaction, Active Learning, Learning Environment, Daily Routine, and Assessment.
Sensory Activities in the Early Childhood Classroom
Learn unique recipes that will engage more than one sense at a time. Sensory activities involve different textures, smells, bright colors, different sounds etc. They stimulate senses and encourage children to explore the environment around them.
Early Childhood Classroom Learning Environment
From design to arrangement this workshop covers it all. Learn why certain learning areas need to be close to others and what materials are necessary for them to be stocked with!
More than Mother Goose-s Nursery Rhymes in the Classroom
Explore the many extensions of nursery rhymes in your classroom. Learn how to incorporate hands-on experiences that focus on various nursery rhymes, leave the workshop with concrete lesson plan ideas ready to implement the next school day.
Transitions that Works!
Transitions aren’t just used to move children from one place to another. Transitions are time fillers, behavior settlers, and nap time quiet keepers.
Join us to receive hands-on activities that work!
Characteristics of a Classroom Leader
While we are commonly referred to as classroom teachers, the truth is that we are classroom leaders. There are precious, tiny humans watching and following in our footsteps. What does it mean then, to lead in the classroom? What attitudes and character qualities are required to truly lead children in learning, discovery, and development in our classrooms? This session will set the stage for you to confidently step into your role as Classroom Leader.
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