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Professional Development

Professional Development and Teacher Resources Flyer (PDF, 502KB)
A comprehensive listing of current face-to-face 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. Other teacher resources, including those listed below, are highlighted.

Trainings
Access information about face-to-face 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.

Teacher Resources

The Department has created a new teacher resource available to all Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) programs. The What I Learned in VPK! Teacher’s Guide and accompanying Child Portfolio are designed as a means for programs to communicate with parents about a child’s progress in meeting the VPK Education Standards by the end of the VPK experience. The Teacher’s Guide gives valuable information about how a teacher can complete a Child Portfolio for each child to give to parents at the end of VPK. These two documents can be viewed and printed using the links below.

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.

Florida Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Standards (PDF, 219KB)
The Florida Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Standards (2008) describe skills that four-year-old children should know and be able to do by the end of their prekindergarten year and are designed to guide prekindergarten administrators and teachers in designing and implementing appropriate early learning environments.

Sample Lesson Plans Based on the Florida Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Standards
These lesson plans, based on the Florida Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Standards, are designed to help develop the skills that four-year-old children should know and be able to do by the end of their prekindergarten year. The lesson plans are organized under the targeted VPK Education Standards that are included in each plan. Related VPK Education Standards are also included in each lesson plan to show prekindergarten administrators and teachers how one lesson can be easily integrated across the domains of the VPK Education Standards.

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.