Course Length: 12 hour/s (2 days)

Course Cost:  $425.00 per person  

Course Prerequisites:  None

Course Number: TRZ221

Course Description: This course will help you to prepare parent for the transition phase from Head Start to Kindergarten.  The course will help students be able to enable parents so they can fully understand their roles, rights and responsibilities and to develop communication and advocacy skills necessary throughout their child's education. The course helps programs to establish and maintain procedures to support successful transitions for enrolled children and families from previous child care programs into Early Head Start or Head Start and from Head Start into elementary school, a Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act preschool program, or other child care settings. Students will learn to develop procedures that include:

• Coordinating with the schools or other agencies to ensure that individual Early Head Start or Head Start children’s relevant records are transferred to the school or next placement in which a child will enroll or from earlier placements to Early Head Start or Head Start;

• Outreach to encourage communication between Early Head Start or Head Start staff and their counter parts in the schools and other child care settings including principals, teachers, social workers and health staff to facilitate continuity of programming;

• Initiating meetings involving Head Start teachers and parents and kindergarten or elementary school teachers to discuss the developmental progress and abilities of individual children; and

• Initiating joint transition-related training for Early Head Start or Head Start staff and school or other child development staff.”