The Program for Infant/Toddler Care conducts Trainer Institutes, which are offered to educators, program managers, and other professionals responsible for training infant/toddler care teachers. These intensive sessions help trainers deepen their understanding of each module's content and acquire skills in the integrated presentation of the concepts in the PITC videos and guides. Upon completing the certification requirements, participants receive a certificate of completion from WestEd and the California Department of Education that recognizes them as trainers for the specific module in which they received training. Learn more about PITC

The Modules at the Trainer Institutes cover the following four major content areas:

Module I: Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization - The focus of this module is:

Training activities include sessions with leading experts in infant development and care and faculty from the California Department of Education Child Development Division and WestEd Center for Child and Family Studies. In addition to covering major content areas, each Trainer Institute focuses on adult learning and teaching strategies.

Schedule of California Trainer Institutes
PITC offers Trainer Institutes three times per year, alternating between Northern and Southern California, and East Coast locations. Only one application is necessary for the entire four-module series. For exact dates and locations visit the calendar of events.

Participants
The Trainer Institutes are designed for trainers of early childhood practitioners, in particular infant/toddler care teachers. Participants include early childhood program directors, resource teachers, and site supervisors or educational coordinators; staff from child care resource and referral agencies who train family child care providers or infant/toddler care teachers in center-based programs; community college, university, or college instructors who teach infant/toddler courses; independent trainers for infant/toddler care teachers or family child care providers; and trainers who work in high school vocational, parent and teen education, early intervention, and special needs programs.