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HILLTOP Early Childhood SERVICES does NOT provide direct child care services.
We DO provide:
Professional Development (PD)/Training, Consulting, and Presentations/Keynotes to Early Childhood Education professionals, aspiring professionals, and supporters of high quality early childhood education
Check out the links to IPA Porch Play Chats to help increase opportunities for children to learn through play.
The American Association for Promoting the Child’s Right to Play or more affectionately known as IPA USA promotes children’s learning opportunities to learn through play. Here are links to Porch Play Chats:
IPA Porch Play Chat – What do early childhood people mean when they say “centers”? Centers are spaces within learning programs for children to explore and use materials, usually grouped together with a common theme – for example, the block center usually contains blocks, usually on shelves where children can easily take them out, use them, and put them away. A typical classroom contains several centers. In the latest IPA Porch Play Chat, we discuss centers – how they are used and helping children and adults to make them more effective for children’s learning. The link is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yy_mTCBY58>
IPA Porch Play Chat – When adults see children playing, they think they have to tell them about what the children are doing, or direct what they are doing, or help them learn from what they are doing. Children need us NOT to interrupt the learning. Visit this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdA6bAnfKLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yy_mTCBY58>
IPA Porch Play Chat – When adults see children playing, they think they have to tell them about what the children are doing, or direct what they are doing, or help them learn from what they are doing. Children need us NOT to interrupt the learning. Visit this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdA6bAnfKLY