Training Topics
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What is Transitional Kindergarten?
Admin welcome! Come learn and develop a deeper understanding about how to incorporate TK into your school community. Create a play based schedule that supports our families and littlest learners that is research and evidence based.
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Strategies to Support Multilingual Learners
Shift from deficit based thinking to asset based thinking as you learn to cultivate bilingual and English language skills in your classroom. Learn about the different multilingual children in your class all while enriching your current schedule.
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Family Connections and Partnerships
This training is specifically intended to listen to families, build with families, uplift their voices as critical agents in the community and schools. Develop solid plans how to build connections; while honoring home language and culture.
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Ethnic Studies in Early Childhood
Guide educators to incorporate ethnic studies within their classrooms by uplifting parent and children stories, discuss power structures and how to cultivate a sense of self-love and agency in the early ages.
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Dual Immersion in Early Childhood
Develop deeper understanding of how to effectively support home languages while learning new language. Build on the child’s individual and family cultural, linguistic assets to support translanguaging, code switching and language development in the classroom.
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Development of Math Skills
Create and enjoy fun, hands-on activities while learning new knowledge in early mathematics research. Find ways to promote young children’s mathematical development.
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Social and Emotional Development
Expressing feelings, solving problems, and knowing how to navigate a world is a skill that benefits all children. Discover ways to build off assets while practicing skills to reduce stress and anxiety to support confidence change makers.
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Early Childhood Development Topics
Bernadette Pilar has taught multiple years in community colleges. Classes can be Early Childhood development, Challenging Behaviors, Language Development, and Observation/Assessments.
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Customize Your Own Training Topic
Bernadette can construct a personalized learning plan for you including art, play, dance, and so much more!