Parents as First TeachersParents are a child’s first and most influential teachers

The goal of this two -day training is to prepare previously certified  birth-3 project workers to successfully extend the Parents as First Teachers programme to families with children 3-5 years.

The training covers:

• latest neuroscience information relating to 3- to 5-year-olds
• all elements of literacy, including reading, writing, listening and speaking
• the value of play and the adult’s role
• aspects of motor development, including gross and fine motor skills, nutrition, health and safety development
• aspects of social-emotional development such as social relationships and attachment
• aspects of intellectual development such as how children gather and process information
• parent group meetings that include topics related to development and parenting issues of children 3-5 years old