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This section will provide details about the credential itself and some helpful tips for the application process. Please use your FET 1 Handout for note-taking. You will want to jot down notes to ensure that you have a complete application the first time you submit.

Throughout the lesson there will be instructions to click on images and/or text for additional information to show. Some text will also expand and then be available. Please be sure to interact as you progress through all the sections and lessons.

Throughout this training, you will encounter the following types of activities:

For those of you that are new to online learning, or to Learndash in particular, it may take a little practice learning how to navigate through the course. Please feel free to contact us by phone or email. 

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This series of 4 FET modules is facilitated by the Regional Child Care Aware Training Coaches and Christine Hausman, the Professional Development Content Coordinator from Child Care Aware.

Pictured, from left to right: Bethany Hughes (Two Rivers), Julie Halitzka (Jefferson), April Brown (The Lakes), Bambi Cliffe (Southern Bluegrass), Candace Storrer (Salt River), Sharon Norris (Northern Bluegrass), Glenna Gamble (Eastern Mountain/Cumberland), and Christine Hausman (Training Content Coordinator).

In this section, you will learn about the importance of attaining and maintaining a professional approach to your role as a trainer. We will also discuss the role that ethics plays in your personal development and public persona.

Training Outcome

Participants will create a personal code of ethics for their role as a trainer.

Roadmap

• Define Professionalism
• Introduce the Kentucky Standards of Training for Early Childhood Professionals
• Discuss ethics and explore how that relates to copyright and fair use laws.

As we move through the study of some cognitive and adult learning theory-based approaches to learning that the current research espouses, connect parts of this content back to the information you received in the previous two sections regarding learning and the brain and individual life experiences, culture, and identity.  This will help you to see exactly WHY these approaches to learning are effective.

This look at how to create optimal conditions for adult learning uses significant content and framework that is presented in the online publication and supplemental resources of Learning Styles As A Myth, which was created by the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University.

For our purposes as future Early Care and Education trainers, we will look at this information in three main areas: Inclusive Teaching Strategies, Group Work/Collaborative Learning, and Active Learning.

Training Outcome

Participants will incorporate knowledge of optimal conditions for adult learning to revise a learning experience from their past.

Roadmap

• Identify and define inclusive teaching strategies.
• Identify and define group work/collaborative learning.
• Identify and define active learning.

Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning – https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/LearningStylesMyth?fbclid=IwAR0dh25BEk1KwthV8ZpcqeaF7b8WZoJpebnhwOdnz61CnaJWqSa1uCACYlg

Training Outcome

Participants will apply knowledge about brain function, structure and development to better understand a learning experience from their past.

Roadmap

• Identify and define elements of brain function and structure.
• Identify and define how brain development relates to learning.
• Analyze a learning experience from your past.

In every group of adult learners, there exists a wide range of diversity.  Many different individuals will be present, each one of them uniquely shaped by the forces that are at work in a wide range of identity-forming cultural and life experiences.

This diversity and the factors that create it all contribute to the development of individual learning profiles that each individual training participant will bring into your training. Understanding more about human diversity will help you plan trainings that are more able to connect with and reach these diverse adult learners. This will in turn increase your chances of educating, inspiring and helping to chart a path for training participants to change their work behaviors to improve outcomes for children and families in early care and education settings.

Training Outcome

Participants will determine how components of life experiences, culture, and identity impact individual training participants.  

Roadmap

• Define life experiences, culture, and identity.
• Create lists of descriptive labels related to each of these areas for themselves by creating an Identity Chart.

Training Outcomes

Participants will be able to identify 3 strategies that are safe and supportive, interactive and flexible and engaging when designing an online course. 

Participants will describe how their role changes in the online learning environment.

Roadmap

• Identify what trainers do to create a welcoming and comfortable psychological environment in an online training
• Determine how the online environment changes your role as a trainer.

Training Outcome

Participants will describe five things to do before the training, during the introduction of the training, and throughout the training that create and maintain a welcoming and comfortable learning environment.  

Roadmap

• Identify what trainers do to create a welcoming and comfortable psychological environment
• Determine what a trainer does to maintain a comfortable psychological environment throughout the training

Before long, you will be attending a group training day as part of FET. This group training day is set up as a working example of an effective training environment. The organizational ideas that you will see presented there may strike you as unique and effective possibilities that perhaps you will want to try when you set up training events.

Training Outcome

Participants will describe and share specific resources and strategies for the organizational components of training that have been successful in past training sessions.

Roadmap

• Discussion of organizational strategies
• Explore additional resources for trainers

Training Outcome

Participants will select a training room set-up that takes into consideration adult learner characteristics and supports the intended training outcomes.

Roadmap

In this lesson we will:

• Evaluate potential training locations
• Discuss various training room arrangements
• Review a checklist for selecting and evaluating training sites/rooms