This page lists ITSN trainings, their descriptions, and the core competency areas for each of the trainings. The list below will be updated as more trainings become available.
Texas Infant, Toddler, and Three-Year-Old Early Learning Guidelines (ITELGs)Providing Developmentally Appropriate Activities Supporting Language and Communication Supporting Social and Emotional Development Supporting Early Literacy Development Supporting Early Cognitive Development Supporting Early Physical Development and Health Supporting Development Supporting Family Engagement Classroom Environment and Teacher Competencies Texas Core Competencies for Practitioners CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Foundations Training
ITELG Social Emotional
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper dive into the topic ITELG: Early Social and Emotional Development, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. Key components: Trust and Emotional Security, Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, and Relationships with Others.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
ITELG Physical
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper dive into the topic ITELG: Physical Health and Motor Development, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. Key Components: Health and Well-being, Gross Motor Skills, and Fine Motor Skills.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
ITELG Cognitive
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper dive into the topic ITELG: Early Cognitive Development, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. Key Components: Exploration and Discovery, Problem Solving, Memory, and Imitation and Make Believe.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
ITELG Language
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper dive into the topic ITELG: Early Language and Communication, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. Key Components: Listening and Understanding, Communication and Speaking, and Emergent Literacy.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
CIRCLE Activity Collection: Infant and Toddler
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the CIRCLE Activity Collection by exploring key knowledge and teaching strategies to support children’s development from birth through 36 months.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development, Observation and Assessment
Talk with Me: Part 1
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Talk with Me: Promoting Early Language Development- Part 1, exploring key knowledge and instructional strategies including, labeling, describing, comparing, and explaining.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Talk with Me: Part 2
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Talk with Me: Promoting Early Language Development- Part 2, exploring key knowledge and instructional strategies including, linking, narrating, thinking aloud, rephrasing, and extending.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Talk with Me: Part 3
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Talk with Me: Promoting Early Language Development- Part 3, exploring key knowledge and instructional strategies including, asking questions, pacing, encouraging conversation, inviting participation, and scaffolding.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Connect With Me: Part 1
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Connect with Me: Promoting Social and Emotional Development- Part 1, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. The strategies included in this session are Express Warmth & Affection, Comfort Children in Distress, Label Feelings, Back and Forth Play, and Use Praise to Encourage Cooperation.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Connect With Me: Part 2
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Connect with Me: Promoting Social and Emotional Development- Part 2, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. The strategies included in this session are Be Predictable, Redirect Undesired Behaviors, Follow Consistent Daily Schedules & Routines, Help Children Share Space, and Support Turn-Taking.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Connect With Me: Part 3
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Connect with Me: Promoting Social and Emotional Development – Part 3, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. The strategies included in this session are Talk about Connections between Feelings, Actions, and Events, Encourage Children to Talk about Feelings, Engage Children in Activities to Promote Positive Interactions, Engage Children in Activities to Build Emotional Understanding, and Offer Prompts for Peer Interaction.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Connect with Me: Part 4
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Connect with Me: Promoting Social and Emotional Development – Part 4, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies. The strategies included in the session are Model Prosocial Behaviors, Provide Verbal and Physical Cues for Self- Control, Offer Opportunities for Children to Make Choices, Explain What Comes Next, Help Resolve Peer Conflicts.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Connect With Me: Part 5A
Challenging Behaviors Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Connect with Me: Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors- Part 5, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies, covering five of the challenging behaviors presented in the course (Infant Distress, Separation Anxiety, Stranger Anxiety, Tantrums, and Saying No).
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Connect With Me: Part 5B
Challenging Behaviors Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Connect with Me: Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors- Part 5, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies, covering three of the challenging behaviors presented in the course (Hitting, Kicking, Pinching or Pushing Others; Biting; and Not Sharing Toys).
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Read with Me: Part 1
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Read with Me: Promoting Early Literacy Development – Part 1, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, read with enthusiasm, share control, invite interest, talk about pictures, and encourage participation.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Read with Me: Part 2
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Read with Me: Promoting Early Literacy Development – Part 2, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, practice fine motor, rhythm and rhyme, link to experiences, point out print, model writing, and use props and extenders.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Learn with Me: Part 1
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Learn with Me: Promoting Early Cognitive Development – Part 1, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, promote sensory exploration, encourage observation, encourage effort and persistence, maintain children’s attention, and encourage imitation.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Learn with Me: Part 2
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Learn with Me: Promoting Early Cognitive Development-Part 2, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, explain and demonstrate how things work, talk about sequence, engage children in math activities, and model and join in pretend play.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Learn with Me: Part 3
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Learn with Me: Promoting Early Cognitive Development – Part 3, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, promote flexibility in thinking, model problem solving aloud, scaffold children’s learning by simplifying and scaffold children’s learning by adding challenge.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Move with Me: Part 1
Designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Move with Me: Promoting Early Physical Development and Health – Part 1, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, engage infants in tummy time, provide supported sitting, promote gross motor skills, and promote fine motor skills.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Move with Me: Part 2
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Move with Me: Promoting Early Physical Development and Health – Part 2, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, respond to physical needs, talk about nutritious foods, teach safety words and actions, teach body parts and their functions, model and encourage expression of internal states, and model and encourage self-care skills.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development
Grow with Me
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Grow with Me: Understanding and Using Developmental Assessments, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Observation and Assessment
Family Engagement: Part 1-Partnering with Families
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Family Engagement-Partnering with Families, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including, establishing positive communication with families, building relationships, and overcoming barriers to family engagement.
Core Competency Areas: Family and Community Relationships, Instituting Family and Community-Centered Programming
Family Engagement: Part 2-Play-Based Learning
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the topic Family Engagement- Play-Based Learning, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies, and focuses on research-driven strategies to encourage play-based learning and responsive interactions at home.
Core Competency Areas: Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development, Family and Community Relationships, Instituting Family and Community-Centered Programming
CIRCLE Infant and Toddler Classroom Environment Checklist
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Classroom Environment Checklist, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies.
Core Competency Areas: Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development, Observation and Assessment
CIRCLE Infant and Toddler Teacher Competencies
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Teacher Competencies tools, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development, Observation and Assessment
Area 1: Child Growth and Development
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the Texas Core Competencies Area 1: Child Growth and Development, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including identifying key factors that influence child growth and develop.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Area 2: Responsive Interactions and Guidance
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the Texas Core Competencies Area 2: Responsive Interactions and Guidance, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including rephrasing behavioral expectations and demonstrating responsive interactions and guidance in the classroom.
Core Competency Areas: Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Area 3: Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the Texas Core Competencies Area 3: Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including ways to arrange the learning environment and establishing and following consistent daily schedules.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development
Area 4: Supporting Skill Development
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the Texas Core Competencies Area 4: Supporting Skill Development, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including competencies which support infant and toddler social and emotional development and language and communication development.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development, Observation and Assessment
Area 5: Observation and Assessment
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the Texas Core Competencies Area 5: Observation and Assessment, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including ways to document child observations and how to clearly communicate assessment results in an accurate, positive, and non-judgmental way.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Supporting Skill Development, Observation and Assessment
Area 6: Diversity and Dual Language Learners
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the Texas Core Competencies Area 6: Diversity and Dual Language Learners, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including recognizing the importance of a family’s culture as an influence on a child’s development.
Core Competency Areas: Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development, Diversity and Dual Language Learners
Area 7: Family and Community Relationships
This session is designed for teachers to gain a deeper understanding of the Texas Core Competencies Area 7: Family and Community Relationships, exploring key knowledge and professional strategies including establishing and maintaining healthy working relationships with families.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development, Diversity and Dual Language Learners, Family and Community Relationships
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Foundations Training: Best Practices
In this training teachers will increase knowledge and skills about best practices needed to support infant and toddler’s development. Teachers will also explore their role in responsive caregiving and fostering an environment that encourages inclusion, culturally appropriate practices, and healthy social emotional development.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development Child Development: Domains, Stages, and Milestone, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development, Observation and Assessment, Supporting Children with Special Needs, Diversity and Dual Language Learners, Cultural Diversity and Equity
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Foundations Training: Social and Emotional
In this training teachers will increase knowledge and skills to support infant and toddler’s social emotional development. Teachers will also explore their role in fostering an environment that promotes social emotional skills, and practice teaching strategies.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards, Supporting Skill Development, Social and Emotional Development: Self-Concept, Behavior Regulation, Emotional Control, Attention, and Social Skills, Family and Community Relationships
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Foundations Training: Language and Communication
In this training teachers will increase their knowledge and skills to support infant and toddler’s language development. Teachers will also explore their role in providing responsive caregiving and fostering an environment that promotes language and communication skills, and practice teaching strategies.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development, Language and Communication: Listening, Speaking, and Vocabulary, Family and Community Relationships
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Foundations Training: Cognitive
In this training teachers will increase their knowledge and skills to support infant and toddler’s cognitive development. Teachers will also explore their role in providing responsive caregiving and fostering an environment that promotes cognitive skills, and practice teaching strategies.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Scaffolding and Communication-Based Strategies: Supporting Cognitive and Language Development, Supporting Skill Development, Mathematics, Science
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Foundations Training: Physical Health and Motor
In this training teachers will increase knowledge and skills to support infant and toddler’s physical development. Teachers will also explore their role in fostering an environment that promotes safety and physical health and motor skills, and practice teaching strategies.
Core Competency Areas: Child Growth and Development, Responsive Interactions and Guidance, Supporting Skill Development, Physical Development, Health, Safety and Nutrition