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Professional Development

The Florida Department of Education, 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, click on the link below. Other online teacher resources, including those listed below, are also highlighted in this document.

Training
To register for any of these training opportunities, please visit DCF's web site.

Teacher Resources

The Bright Beginnings Website includes resources for teachers and parents to use to guide children's success in the areas of emergent reading and mathematical skills while attending VPK. The website also includes the Online Reporting System for the VPK Assessment.

These Sample 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.

The VPK Teacher Toolkit is a virtual resource for VPK teachers and directors. 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. Currently available folders include: Language and Vocabulary, Mathematical Thinking, and The Florida VPK Assessment.