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Training Descriptions

Trainings for Early Childhood Educators, Schools, and Organizations

Please review the training descriptions below or
Click here for a PDF brochure, Keynotes and Trainings for Early Childhood Educators
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You may also want to review my keynote topics because these can be one or two-day trainings as well
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Note from Gloria

If you are a frustrated visionary who sees what needs to change in your school or organization, and you wish to participate in an exciting results-oriented process, let’s talk.

During the organizational trainings I give, participants examine the topics, dialogue, and co-create a plan to implement systemic change within the organization. After a one or two-day training, I can work with you on a consultant basis (Highlight and link to consulting page), for on-going support toward the implementation of the changes you identified. I am committed to supporting my clients over time. I very much enjoy experiencing with you transformative change and being part of your journey toward school and social reform.

Please review the training descriptions below or

Click here for a PDF brochure, Keynotes and Trainings for Early Childhood Educators

Click here for a PDF brochure, Keynotes and Trainings for Schools and Organizations

You may also want to review my keynote topics because these can be one or two-day trainings as well.

Please contact me by phone at 425-753-0955 or by e-mail: info@GloriaDeGaetano.com to get started!

All Best Wishes,

Gloria DeGaetano


Trainings for Early Childhood Educators

How To Talk with Parents About Media-Related Issues
Specifically designed for early childhood educators, this workshop supports a compassionate, non-judgmental approach for discussing confusing issues such as Why Baby Einstein DVDs aren’t good for babies. Since a media age society will absorb and amplify inaccurate information and since well-intentioned parents will follow the dominant societal voice, it is imperative that those working in early childhood education have a sensible framework, caring guidelines, a hopeful vocabulary, kind questions, and result-oriented strategies—just what this training gives them.

Healthy Brain Development in a Media Age

  1. This workshop explains the impact of overuse of TV and video on young brains and how families can better use screen technologies to support, rather than hinder, young children’s development. Designed for early childhood educators, Head Start and ECEAP Programs, child-care providers, home and family life instructors, home visitors, nurses, health care professionals, and kindergarten and primary-grade teachers, participants receive important tools to support parents of children from birth through age eight to raise their children optimally in a media age. This workshop utilizes the 45-minute parent educational DVD, Healthy Brain Development in a Media Age, and the 96-page manual containing 40 parent handouts. (highlight and link to book list on this website) The DVD and manual contain research-based information and practical ideas to share with parents to help them control and manage TV and video in their homes, giving them compelling reasons to do so throughout their children’s development.

Trainings for Schools and Organizations

A Living Systems Approach to Technology Initiatives: The Best of Both Worlds
Computers in schools are here to stay. But how teachers use them, so that the relationship between student and teacher is not comprised is of the utmost importance. In addition, children’s background experience, age and stage of development, and non-computer skills such as literacy skills, motivation for learning, and their self-concept as a learner must all be taken into account when planning on the best uses of technology in the classroom. In this training, participants co-create a technology implementation plan that allows for optimal computer use in the classroom while at the same time honors the needs of the child (or teen) and the teacher to work together to co-construct optimal learning experiences.

Media Literacy Education, Pre-K through High School
How does your school respond to the need for today’s student to be media savvy? At any grade level, students can learn media literacy skills such as critical analysis of visual media, questioning media’s choice of images and ideas; and understanding how their own creativity can be used to create all forms of visual media–from collages to their own TV programs. In this training, participants decide how they can integrate media literacy education into their already established curriculum and work with Gloria to design educational opportunities that are do-able and require no additional money and less time that you might expect to catalyze curiosity and creativity for media education school wide.

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Gloria DeGaetano
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425-753-0955

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