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Professional Development

Professional Development and Teacher Resources available from the Florida Department of Education (PDF, 268KB)
The Florida Department of Education, Office of Early Learning, in collaboration with the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), offers a variety of both online and instructor-led training opportunities. For a comprehensive listing of current instructor-led and online training opportunities for directors, teachers, assistants and parents offered by the Florida Department of Education, Office of Early Learning, click on the header above. To register for any of these training opportunities, please visit DCF’s web site at https://training01-dcf.myflorida.com/dcf/cct/inf0001.html. Other pnline teacher resources, including those listed below, are also highlighted in this document.

Trainings
To access information and registration procedures to complete instructor-led and online training opportunities for directors, teachers, assistants and parents offered by the Florida Department of Education, Office of Early Learning and the Florida Department of Children and Families, please visit DCF’s Web site at https://training01-dcf.myflorida.com/dcf/cct/inf0001.html.

Teacher Resources

Bright Beginnings Web site
This Web site is one product of the Department of Education’s Bright Beginnings initiative that provides teachers and parents with resources to help children in Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) through third grade, succeed in reading and mathematics.

Sample Lesson Plans Based on the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011) New!

These lesson plans based on the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards for Four-Year-Olds (2011), are designed to help develop the skills that four-year-olds should know and be able to do by the end of their prekindergarten year. There are targeted Standards for Four-Year-Olds included in each lesson plan. To show prekindergarten administrators and teachers how one lesson can be easily integrated across the five domains of development, related Standards for Four-Year-Olds are also included in each lesson plan.

VPK Teacher Toolkit
The VPK Teacher Toolkit is new for 2009. Each Toolkit folder is created based upon what stakeholders have shared as areas they would like more information on. The direction of each topic is the result of a workgroup that includes stakeholders from across the state, as well as national experts. The information in each folder includes information and footage from real VPK classrooms across the state. New information and resources will be added to folders as it becomes available.

VPK Teacher Toolkit: Language and Vocabulary Folder
This online resource is appropriate for all VPK teachers/instructors, assistants and directors. The Language and Vocabulary folder provides instructional strategies for increasing language and vocabulary with young children. These strategies include Book Embedded Vocabulary Instruction, Dialogic Reading, Think, Show, Tell, Talk and Language Scaffolding with young children. There are videos of VPK teachers implementing the strategies with children as well as; activities, and resources to support teachers as they begin to use the language and vocabulary strategies in their own classrooms.

Language and Vocabulary in the VPK Classroom
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Language and Vocabulary in the VPK Classroom course for all VPK teachers, assistants and directors. This online course is designed to help teachers integrate the use of implicit and explicit instructional strategies that support early language development in the VPK Classroom.

  • Memo # 09-25 (PDF) December 14, 2009 – Language and Vocabulary in the VPK Classroom

Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Teacher Toolkit: Mathematical Thinking folder
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Teacher Toolkit Mathematical Thinking folder, the second of five resource folders. This new online resource is available free to all VPK teachers, assistants and directors and is designed to support early learning in the VPK classroom. The information included in the folders aligns with the Florida VPK Education Standards and provides guidance that connects instructional needs with professional development.

  • Memo # 09-26 (PDF) December 18, 2009 – Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Teacher Toolkit: Mathematical Thinking folder