Friday, May 17, 2013
FOX2 News Coverage of First Steps Budget Issue
First Steps family speaks to Fox2 News reporter, Jeff Bernthal on the 9pm newscast May 16.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Natural Learning Environment Practices
Taken from www.coachinginearlychildhood.org ...
"Due to existing and emerging evidence regarding effective and ineffective practices in natural learning environments, early intervention practitioners must strive to rethink their intervention paradigms and learn how to support children within the context of their family and community life. If we continue to practice as we did five years ago, two years ago, or even last year, we must question our usefulness and work harder to bridge current knowledge to everyday practice. Simply "kerplunking" the practices we used in clinic-based settings into family homes and other community settings is unacceptable (Rush, 2000). Although many practitioners feel they are making major sacrifices by changing the location of their support, we now understand that embedding decontextualized practices into the child's family and community life is not helpful and has been demonstrated to be detrimental. The lessons we have learned from the literature and interactions with children and their care providers have given us a clear mandate to accept the challenge of refocusing our practices. Current practice guides us to coach care providers in supporting their child's learning in everyday moments by maximizing his/her participation in the things he/she likes to do."
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"Due to existing and emerging evidence regarding effective and ineffective practices in natural learning environments, early intervention practitioners must strive to rethink their intervention paradigms and learn how to support children within the context of their family and community life. If we continue to practice as we did five years ago, two years ago, or even last year, we must question our usefulness and work harder to bridge current knowledge to everyday practice. Simply "kerplunking" the practices we used in clinic-based settings into family homes and other community settings is unacceptable (Rush, 2000). Although many practitioners feel they are making major sacrifices by changing the location of their support, we now understand that embedding decontextualized practices into the child's family and community life is not helpful and has been demonstrated to be detrimental. The lessons we have learned from the literature and interactions with children and their care providers have given us a clear mandate to accept the challenge of refocusing our practices. Current practice guides us to coach care providers in supporting their child's learning in everyday moments by maximizing his/her participation in the things he/she likes to do."
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St. Louis Area Provider Meeting
Provider Meeting-2nd
Thursday of each month.
The EIC wants to hear
from you.
Please come to a “Town
Hall” gathering to network with other providers and to share your thoughts on
providing First Steps services. These will be ongoing meetings and will meet at
least bi-monthly. Come share your successes and brainstorm with other providers
on strategies to make the EIT model work in the St. Louis Area. This is a great
forum to bring together providers from the entire region to network and be a
support to each other through sharing of ideas!
WHEN:
Thursday, May 9th, 12:00-1:30
WHERE:
YWCA Head Start/Early Head Start
1911 Beltway Drive, 63114
(Page and 170)
WHO:
Any First Steps Providers
CONTACTS:
EIC Provider Relations Committee
Co-Chairs
Rob Cracchiola
(rjcracchiola@charter.net)
Suzanne Falvey
(sfalvey@headstart.ywcastlouis.org)
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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