Recent HOTL graduates
Hands-On-Teach-To-Learn Course is designed for Home Child Caregivers to “See, Sing, Use, Do, Teach, & Take-home” as a way to learn complex early child development school readiness skills. The course was designed for new language learners or providers with limited English, but we have found that it is an intense learning strategy that works people at all levels of language learning.
Strategies include:
- “SEE” Pictures for the Children’s Curriculum & Picture Guides for Quality Home Child Care for Preschoolers
- “SING” songs that build school readiness skills for preschoolers
- “USE” & “DO”
- Children’s Curriculum activities
- Activities to understand each of the Components of Quality Home Child Care for Preschoolers
- “TEACH” the activities to their colleagues in class
- “TAKE-HOME”
- Literacy-Based Children’s Curriculum Packets
- Picture Guides for the Components of Quality Home Child Care for Preschool
Caregivers use this Total Physical Response method of learning to understand, apply, & remember complex early childhood concepts.
The HOTL Home Child Caregivers Course was developed using the research of the MN Early Childhood Indicators of Progress, MN Core Competencies, Bredecamp’s DAP, NAEYC Ages & Stages of Development, Total Physical Response Strategy as well as the work of Vygotsky, Piaget, and Dewey.
The HOTL Home Child Caregivers Course has been piloted with and modified by home child caregivers of the many rich cultural communities of Minnesota. HOTL is a project of the Alliance of Early Childhood Professionals at 612-721-4246.
Recent HOTL graduates.
*Caregivers 1 revolves around daily schedule. Caregivers 2 revolves around Portfolio Observation and Assessment. Caregivers 3 revolves around project learning.
