Pathway 2 IFCC Professional Development Sessions (English)
Individual training sessions that go towards the Pathway 2: Child Development Enrichment trainings.
Date and Time
Upcoming sessions
Pathway 2: Cultivating professionalism and reflective practice for family-based child care providers
Monday, May 18, 2026
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EST
In this course, providers will explore what it means to be a professional family child care provider. They will learn how to strengthen their sense of professionalism, use goal-setting and reflection to improve their home-based care, and understand the importance of self-care in their daily practice.
Pathway 2: The Art of Observations in Your Home Settings
Thursday, May 28, 2026
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
The goal of this training is to help providers build strong observation skills within their home-based settings. Participants will learn how to observe children in everyday routines, document behaviors objectively, and use observations to better understand each child’s development. The training will also explore how to reduce bias and use observations to inform responsive, individualized care.
Pathway 2: Children Grow When Routines Are In Place
Saturday, June 13, 2026
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
The goal of this training is to help providers understand the importance of consistent routines in supporting young children’s growth and development. Participants will learn how predictable daily schedules create a sense of security, promote positive behavior, and support social-emotional and cognitive development. The training will also explore how to create and adapt routines that meet the needs of children in home-based care settings.
Pathway 2: Creating And Maintaining a Developmentally Appropriate Environment
Saturday, June 20, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
This session will help providers design safe, welcoming, and developmentally appropriate environments, indoors and outdoors, that reflect children’s backgrounds, foster a sense of security and belonging, and support learning through engaging activities and play.
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Maintaining a Healthy Environment
Monday, November 17, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
The goal of this professional development session is to equip providers with the knowledge and practices needed to create and maintain healthy, safe, and supportive environments for children. Participants will explore the importance of nutrition and effective responses to common health needs, recognizing that healthy environments are essential to children’s overall growth and development.
Pathway 2: Active Learning Strategies: Encouraging Engagement and Exploration
Monday, December 15, 2025
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
The goal of this training is to strengthen providers’ understanding of the developmental domain approaches to learning and the role of effective questioning to support children's curiosity and exploration.
Pathway 2: How do my practices nurture social and emotional growth in young children?
Monday, January 26, 2026
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
A high-quality family child care home should support children’s social-emotional development and learning. This lesson describes how you can use your home environment to create meaningful opportunities for children’s social-emotional growth.
Pathway 2: Creating a communication and language-rich setting to promote language development in young children
Saturday, February 7, 2026
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
Communication skills are vital to the overall learning and development of all children. In this course providers will learn about communication milestones and what to do if providers have concerns about a child’s development. Providers will also learn how to create an environment that is language-rich.
Pathway 2: Cultivating professionalism and reflective practice for family-based child care providers
Monday, February 9, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
In this course providers will learn how to nurture their own sense of professionalism, how goal-setting and evaluation can contribute to continuous home base care improvement, and the importance of self-care in your practice. about what it means to be a professional family child care provider
Pathway 2: Cognitive Development: Creating playful opportunities to develop reasoning, problem solving, computiational skills
Monday, March 2, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
In this course, providers will learn about cognitive development, interactions that promote learning, engagement, what and how children learn from birth to 12 years of age. You will learn about supporting brain development, developmental milestones, the importance of relationships, engaging learning materials, and using research to support children’s learning and development.
Pathway 2: How do my practices nurture social and emotional growth in young children?
Monday, April 6, 2026
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
A high-quality family child care home should support children’s social-emotional development and learning. This lesson describes how you can use your home environment to create meaningful opportunities for children’s social-emotional growth.