SEEDS of LearningTM is a professional learning framework for adults who care for and teach children ages 3-5. SEEDS of Learning uses a unique combination of training, coaching, and professional learning communities (PLCs) to empower adults with the knowledge to develop oral language, emergent literacy, and social and emotional skills in all three- to five-year-olds, setting them up for success in kindergarten and beyond.
Session 1: SEEDS of Early Learning & Quality Interactions Part
Participants will build understanding of the SEEDS framework to engage in the key factors that support children's development and explore the environmental and interpersonal interactions that support children's social, emotional, and academic growth.
Session 2: SEEDS of Social-Emotional Development
Participants will examine the elements of a socially and emotionally-safe learning environment and consider how to embed classroom routines and rituals into the day, consequences for positive and negative behavior, classroom rules, and self-regulation.
Session 3: SEEDS of Book & Print Awareness
Participants will build understanding of concepts of print and early literacy development, including experiencing the characteristics of effective read aloud strategies.
Session 4: SEEDS of Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary, & Oral Language Development
Participants build their understanding of phonological awareness, vocabulary and oral language development and learn strategies to further support early literacy development for young children.
Session 5: SEEDS of Visual Discrimination
Participants will explore the elements of the Visual Discrimination Continuum of Complexity and learn strategies to embed and explicitly teach Visual Discrimination throughout all daily routines.