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Child Care General
CG1
Bettye Caldwell: What is Quality Child Care?
How is child care changing in the eyes
of others? (53 mins.)
CG2
Compassion Fatigue: Caring for the Caregiver
This broadcast, with guest presenter Dr. Cynthia Brady, focuses on compassion fatigue symptoms
and development, as well as provides ideas for relaxation and self-care. As a foster, kinship, or
adoptive parent, or as a child care professional, you work daily with children and their families. This
work forces you to contend with not only the normal stresses of work and home, but also with the
emotional and personal feelings that are aroused by caring for others. Broadcast April 16, 2002
Satellite Training Network Oklahoma Department of Human Services
(SATTRN). (2002)
(104 mins.)
CG3
The Leading Edge
Tools for Developmentally Appropriate
Practice - This four-tape series es the key points of NAEYC's
recently revised Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood
Programs. This is an ideal tool for staff development for Early
Childhood Programs. The National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC). (3 hrs. total)
CG4
Celebrating Early Childhood Teachers
This video discusses the importance
of well-qualified early childhood ers to the quality of child
care programs. The National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC). (22 mins.)
CG5
Taking the Lead Symposium
Gwen Morgan's keynote address. November
21-22, 1997. (1 hr., 22 mins.)
CG6 Building Bridges Between Teachers and Families
This video offers a first-hand look at how teachers in two full-time child care programs shift their
thinking and practice as they create partnerships with families. They describe how they make their
classrooms inviting for families and suggest ways to connect with families beyond formal meetings.
They discuss how to think about a program as a community rather than as a school. And, they
challenge you to build productive relationships rather than requiring family participation.
Harvest Resources and Teaching Strategies, Inc. (2003) (21 mins.)
CG7 Learning and Growing Together with Families: Seven Ways to Build Strong Relationships
This video will help you learn specific ways to build strong, collaborative relationships with families
and with your colleagues. Designed for home visitors, Early Head Start staff, early intervention
specialists, child care providers, and others who work with the families of young children. It builds
upon the core concepts and skills of self-awareneess, sensitive observation, careful reading of cues,
and flexible response. In the video you will see practitioners working with families in ways that
promote the development of effective partnerships.
Zero To Three. (2001) (25 mins.)
CG8 Chelsea Has a Great Day! An Introduction to Quality Standards for Early Childhood Care and Education Services
This video introduces and describes quality standards in child care settings as they are described in
the Quality Standards for Early Childhood Care and Education, published by the Colorado State
Department of Education. For example: Chelsea and her parents are welcomed each day. Care
providers talk at eye level to hear what Chelsea has to say. The program's well planned curriculum
includes lots of choices for Chelsea. These and many more standards are demonstrated in a variety
of diverse childcare settings. These are just a few of the examples of adult-child interation,
curriculum, and working together with parents that are demonstrated in this video.
Early Childhood Initiatives Colorado Department of Education, Mark
Herlinger Productions and Western Media (20 mins.)
CG9 Why Early Childhood Matters
Our country's leaders in government, business, crime prevention, and academia voice their
commitment to our nation's youngest children and emphasize the crucial need for increased
investments in early childhood. This video is designed to help you motivate your community to
create and support programs so that every child enters school ready to succeed. Our future depends
on the investments we make today in our youngest children. Hosted by Rob Reiner.
I Am Your Child.
(10 mins.)
CG10 Quality Family Child Care
This growing profession is discussed openly with parents and family child care providers. Also
available in Spanish.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
(28 mins.)
CG11 Cultivating Roots: Partnership with Families
Young children benefit when relationships between parents and teachers are a two-way process of
collaboration and communication. In this video, you will learn ways to foster partnerships between
families and schools, including through communication, support, learning, teaching one another, child
advocacy, and decision making. From The Early Childhood Program: A Place to Learn and Grow Series.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
(30 mins.)
