• After successfully completing this Training of Trainers, individuals will be qualified to train six, two-hour courses:
  • Preschoolers: Understanding and Preventing Challenging Behaviors
  • Understanding and Preventing Challenging Behavior Supporting Social Emotional Growth in Infants and Toddlers
  • Infants and Toddlers: Targeted Strategies to Build Social Emotional Skills
  • Understanding Behavior: Making Sense of What you See and Hear
  • Infants and Toddlers: A Relationship-based Approach to Challenging Behaviors - Examining Behaviors
  • Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families: Nurturing and Supporting Social Emotional Development
• Course description: The Train-the-Trainer (TOT) Course for DHS Behavior Guidance Curricula - Six Social Emotional Pyramid Model Courses for Infants/Toddlers/Preschoolers is an accelerated, distance education approach to teaching trainers how to implement this training. In this course, participants will be introduced to the content, materials, and methods used to teach the six, two-hour behavior guidance classes. Trainers completing this session will receive authorization to train all six, two-hour behavior guidance courses, which meet the licensed family child care training requirement.
• Curriculum is developed by the Department of Human Services.

• Trainer I, Trainer II, Master, Higher Ed

Experience working in programs with:

• Milestones
• Social emotional development
• Behavior guidance and support
• Direct care experience

Educational Experience (Coursework, Professional Development, TOTs)
Additional PD on:

• Children at risk
• Children with special needs
• Infant/Toddler care