Outreach Workshops

Current Workshop Offerings:

Little Bites, Big Steps Workshops

This new initiative of workshops brought to you by KERA, Ready for Life, and WHYY brings home the importance of instilling healthy habits for children. These workshops are available for parents, child care providers and teachers of children from infancy to age 8.

Session One: Feeding Your Child
To provide an overview of basic ideas for feeding children
To identify specific methods of providing a developmentally appropriate environment
To weigh methods and advantages of eating as a family
To solve specific eating problems of young children
To consider how families can eat out together in healthy ways

Session Two: What and How Much Do I Feed My Child?
To analyze what foods and combinations of foods are best for young children
To assess the basic components of a healthy diet
To identify an appropriate serving size for a young child
To assess how often children should eat

Session Three: Snacks and Drinks
To judge which drinks, and what amounts of them, are appropriate for young children
To decide which types of snacks are appropriate for young children
To formulate how to guide children's snacking and drinking behaviors

Session Four: Energy Balance
To discover how eating and activity balance for health
To recognize how to maintain energy balance
To differentiate how to help children maintain energy balance

Session Five: Activity and Fitness for Young Children
To recognize the importance of young children being active
To formulate ways to encourage children to be more active

Teacher Workshops
These workshops are available for child care providers and teachers of children from infancy to age 8.

Learning with Arthur

Arthur and his friends help teachers by creating awareness and tolerance of children with learning differences. Teachers will explore strategies to assist children in their classroom that learn differently.

It's a Big, Big World

Extend a child's natural curiosity through science and exploration, animals, geography and the world around them. Through music, "Shadowmation" and lots of adventures, you will learn more about this series and how to integrate activities and content into your science curriculum.

Get Wild about Reading for Teachers

Explore with Between the Lions how this series builds children's literacy skills and learn how to introduce creative activities and resources in the classroom or at home

Emotions in the Classroom

Using materials from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood participants explore activities and resources that help young children gradually learn the self-control and channel feelings into productive activities.

Cyberchase for Teachers

Learn how Cyberchase helps children develop and sustain enthusiasm for math and helps to improve their mathematical literacy and problem-solving skills.

View, Do, Read for Teachers

This workshop provides teachers with basic skills and resources necessary to use television as an educational tool and enhance critical television viewing skills and media literacy.

From Language to Literacy

Learn with Sesame Street how to create simple, real-life experiences to foster language development in children and lay a strong foundation for lifelong literacy.

Parent Workshops
These workshops are available for parents of children from infancy to age 8.

Get Wild about Reading for Parents

Explore with Between the Lions how this series builds children's literacy skills and learn how to introduce creative activities and resources in the classroom or at home

What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel?

Using materials from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood participants explore activities and resources that help young children gradually learn the self-control and channel feelings into productive activities.

Cyberchase

Discover how Cyberchase helps children develop and sustain enthusiasm for math. Help your children to improve their mathematical literacy and problem-solving skills.

View, Do, Read

This workshop provides parents with basic skills and resources necessary to use television as an educational tool and enhance critical television viewing skills and media literacy.

From Language to Literacy for Teachers

Learn with Sesame Street how to create simple, real-life experiences to foster language development in children and lay a strong foundation for lifelong literacy.

Neighbor Relative Provider Workshops
These workshops are for child care providers that care and teach children in their homes.

Health, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention

This workshop examines the new food pyramid and healthy habits for the children in your care. Model to children how to make good choices in food selection, portion control, and get them moving! Good habits now help for a happy, healthy life for years to come.

Co-Viewing and the Media

This workshop examines the television ratings system and how to choose appropriate media for the children in your care. Co-viewing is not only an effective educational tool, but it can also help keep kids viewing developmentally appropriate material.

Literacy on the Move

The children in you care will be going to kindergarten before you know it. Are they going to be ready? Explore strategies that you can implement to help get kids ready for school and ready to learn.

Let's Explore Diversity

Model to the children in your care the wonder of the diverse cultures of people around us! Implement strategies that help children explore places and people around them.
Let's think GLOBALLY!

Dealing with Challenging Behaviors

This workshop examines difficult behaviors that children in your care may exhibit and the best strategies for coping with them. You will brainstorm behaviors that can be challenging and discuss strategies and tools that can be used in order to help children deal with everyday ups and downs.