Teachstone + Florida
Teachstone is proud to provide training that supports Florida’s initiatives to improve quality educator-child interactions. Florida, the Division of Early Learning (DEL) is offering opportunities to give leaders, coaches, teachers, and technical support specialists information to improve the experiences proven to be most beneficial to young children.
Explore the pathways below to see how you can take advantage of the training offerings offered through the Florida Department of Education, Division of Early Learning, and learn to increase your performance through powerful interaction techniques.
Trainings for Infant and Toddler Educators
CLASS Primer for Teachers
CLASS Primer for Teachers provides the foundational knowledge to energize staff around your CLASS implementation and journey. It offers digestible content designed to increase understanding of effective interactions, reflect on current teaching practices, and learn about the CLASS tool, and your program’s CLASS implementation. Please reach out to your CLASS lead for the product key.
Thinking & Thriving: Interactions for Early Learning
Thinking & Thriving: Interactions for Early Learning is a half-day, virtual, facilitated training for infant and toddler teachers to learn about the cognitive and language development of our youngest learners and how best to support that development through the proven power of interactions.
CLASS Support Kits (with Transfer-to-Practice Webinars)
CLASS Support Kits (with Transfer-to-Practice Webinars) includes reusable guidebooks to promote he effective use of the quality materials, and a workshop style learning opportunity designed to orient teachers to the materials, build confidence in implementation, and support utilization of best practices. With support from a CLASS specialist, teachers will practice planning and using the materials to build ability to apply strategies beyond the included guidance.
Educators
CLASS Foundations for Teachers is designed to help teachers become oriented to the power of meaningful interactions. Educators will learn how interactions are a core factor that supports children’s development and learning, what the CLASS framework is, and how to focus on meaningful interactions. Pre-K educators must take all four courses to meet the requirements.
Pre-K Educators
Instructional Support Essentials Training for Teachers
Build your knowledge of Instructional Support indicators and dimensions—and understand why they matter. Watch real classroom footage illustrating effective interactions and be able to apply the CLASS lens to your own practice.
Intro to CLASS
Intro to CLASS is designed to help participants learn about effective teacher-child interactions and the ways these interactions help children learn. Your instructor will provide an overview of the CLASS tool and its domains and dimensions. Training will include video examples for each dimension as well as activities to engage participants.Banking Time
Factors such as absenteeism, racial or cultural differences, and other biases can make it difficult for teachers to form meaningful relationships with every child in their class. With Banking Time: Investing in Relationships, educators learn evidence-based strategies proven to form stronger relationships that can positively impact children’s development and learning.
Leaders
A CLASS Primer for Leaders
Designed with a busy leader in mind, CLASS Primer for Leaders is a two-hour online course developed to support leaders in understanding the power of CLASS, and in planning and leading CLASS implementation.
