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The Born to Learn™ Institutes consist of the following:

Prneatal to 3 Years

This is a comprehensive five-day Institute with a follow-up sixth day. It is designed to prepare early childhood and human service professionals to implement the four components of a Born to Learn™ program (personal visits, screening, group meetings, and resource network) using the Born to Learn Curriculum Prenatal to 3 Years. The Institute covers:

• Neuroscience research on early development and learning (prenatal through age 3)
• Sequences of early childhood development
• Effective instructional personal visits
• facilitation of parent-child interaction
• ideas for parent group meetings
• Ways to provide connection to community resources
• Service to diverse families
• Red flags in areas of development, hearing, vision and health
• Recruitment and program organization
• The Born to Learn Curriculum: Prenatal to 3 Years, award-winning video series, parent handouts, prepared visit plans (for monthly, bi-weekly and weekly visits), and resources for parent educators

3 Years to Kindergarten Entry

The goal of this training is to prepare PAT-certified parent educators to successfully extend the Parents as Teachers program to families with children ages 3 years to the age of kindergarten entry. This two-day training is available only to current parent educators already certified in the Born to Learn Curriculum: Prenatal to 3 Years. The training covers intellectual, language, social-emotional, and motor development of children 3 to 5 years old, and covers techniques for facilitating parent-child interaction during personal visits. The curriculum contains 11 units of personal visit plans and parenting information. Training topics include:

• 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

Born to Learn™ Follow Up

Parents as Teachers National Center offers this one-day technical assistance training to certified parent educators as a follow-up to their initial Institute. It is designed to support the work of all new parent educators who have been implementing the Born to Learn™ model for several months.

This training is required for all first year parent educators. Those completing the course will earn six hours of professional development credit. The goals of the training day are to:

• Enhance skills used in delivering personal visits to a variety of families.
• Address challenges and learn techniques for facilitating screenings and offering group meetings and resources to families.
• Improve recordkeeping skills.
• Provide an opportunity for parent educators to network with others and discuss challenges in their work

There are two ways to participate in this training: by attending a face-to-face training or taking the online web-based course. See PAT University at www.parentsasteachers.org for information on the online web-based course

Please read the following memos before registering for any Born to Learn™ Prenatal - Three Implementation Institute and download and complete the appropriate program plan.

Supervisors of Exisiting PAT Programs (Word/50K)
Supervisors of New PAT Programs (Word/50K)
Update PAT Program Information (pdf/104K)
Preliminary PAT Program Plan (pdf/125K)
About Purchasing Spanish BTL Curriculum (Word/49/K)
Checklist for Parent Educator Registration (Word/49K)

November 17-21, 2008
Raleigh, NC
Registration Deadline October 16, 2008

PAT P-3 Training Announcement
2 pages (Word/40K) or (pdf/64K)

PAT P-3 Training - Parent Educator Registration Forms
3 pages (Excel/78K) or (pdf/35K)

PAT P-3 Training - Supervisor Registration Forms
3 pages (Excel/76K) or (pdf/64K)

October 21-22, 2008
Raleigh, NC

PAT 3-K Training - Memo (Word/ ) or (pdf/ )

PAT 3-K Training - Registration Form (Excel/75K) or (pdf/62K)

PAT 3-K Training - Memo About Spanish Curriculum (Word/48K) or (pdf/28K)

PAT 3-K Training - BTL Program Plan (pdf/57K)

February 26, 2009
Raleigh, NC

PAT P-3 Follow Up Letter
1 page (Word/56K) or (pdf/65K)

PAT P-3 Follow Up Registration
1 page (Excel/55K) or (pdf/41K)