Fire Safe ... Fire Smart


Fire Safety & Preparedness

for

Child Care, Preschool, & SACC Professionals



"Online"

Fire Safety Training Workshop

(2 "Clock Hours" In-Service Training)



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Fire Safe ... Fire Smart

The newly revised and updated Fire Safe ... Fire Smart (version 2.0) online workshop has been specifically designed to provide professionals working in child care, early childhood education, or school-age child care programs with a convenient, easy to access, high interest workshop focusing solely on fire safety and education. A workshop that pre-school educators and child care professionals will find extremely informative and helpful, with the common goal of helping children and program staff, become Fire Safe ... Fire Smart, as well as insuring that their child care or pre-school program is fire safe, hazard-free, and fully prepared for emergencies.

The workshop is user friendly allowing the participant to complete the workshop at their own pace and based on their own time schedule. There is no time limit for completing the workshop and a participant can take as many online work sessions as needed to finish the course.

The Learningtree Network, Inc. is an approved PA PQAS Training Sponsor.

Workshop instructors and developers are PA PQAS and New Jersey Workforce Registry approved instructors, as well as certified educators and child care professionals with extensive experience in the areas of child care and elementary education, in addition to being active members of their local volunteer fire company. All Instructors have extensive training and experience in fire fighting, as well as teaching emergency preparedness and fire prevention and safety training activities. Instructor credentials are available upon request.


The Fire Safe ... Fire Smart workshop includes three (3) lessons and focuses on the following topics:

Teaching Children the Basics of Fire Safety

Fire Safety & Preparedness in Child Care Facilities

Fire Extinguisher Training

Lessons are comprised of lesson presentations and videos, and provide access to extensive educational resources that participants can print out for use in preparing lessons, activity centers, and bulletin boards.



Course Curriculum/Table of Contents


  WORKSHOP DIRECTIONS
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  WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT & ORGANIZATION INFORMATION FORM
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  WORKSHOP INTRODUCTION
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  WORKSHOP SURVEY
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  FIRE SAFETY & EDUCATION TEACHER RESOURCES
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Your Instructor


Richard G. Jadico
Richard G. Jadico

Mr. Jadico, the founder and CEO of The Learningtree Network, Inc., and lead developer and instructor of the Fire Safe … Fire Smart Fire Safety & Preparedness workshops, as well as other Learningtree Network online workshops, is a life-long educator and child care professional with over 40 years of teaching and administrative experience in early childhood, elementary, and adult education, as well as school-age child care.

With over thirty years teaching and administrative experience, in 1991, Mr. Jadico and his wife, Gail, founded DVCCA, Inc. and its family of KidsCare, KindergartenPlus, and KidsCamp school-age child care programs which provided after-school, before-school, school holiday, kindergarten, and summer school-age child care services to thousands of elementary-aged children in school districts throughout Bucks County, Pennsylvania for over 22 years.

Mr. Jadico has designed and provided staff development and teacher training workshops to hundreds of child care professionals in Pennsylvania and throughout northeastern United States. He is also a member of numerous professional organizations including the National Association for the Education of Young Children and its local state affiliates, the Association for Early Learning, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the National After-School Association.

Additionally, Mr. Jadico has been and continues to be a member of the Chalfont Chemical Fire Engine Company No. 1, Chalfont, Pennsylvania, where he has volunteered thousands of hours as an active firefighter, officer, and emergency medical technician. He also coordinated the fire company’s fire prevention and education program, and organized and presented numerous fire prevention programs to hundreds of children in schools and child care centers throughout the community.

Mr. Jadico is a certified “Community Safety Educator” having completed course work at the National Fire Academy, and is an active member of the National Fire Prevention Association, The International Association for Fire Safety Science, and International Fire Service Training Association.

He is a Standardized Professional Development Instructor for the Pennsylvania "Keys to Quality" Registry (Pennsylvania’s early childhood source for professional development), a Master Instructor for the New Jersey Workforce Registry (New Jersey's source for early child care and education professional development), a registered Trainer in the New York Aspire Registry for child care professional development, a Massachusetts Early Education and Care approved Trainer, and an approved Instructor for the Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association (OCCRRA).


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