Fire Safe ... Fire Smart
Fire Safety & Preparedness
in
Family & Group Child Care Homes
... Also Includes "Special" Downloadable Bonus Ebook
Teaching Children About Fire Safety
(English & Spanish Versions)
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Fire Safe ... Fire Smart
Fire Safety & Preparedness for Family & Group Child Care Homes
This newly released version of the popular Fire Safe ... Fire Smart online workshop for child care providers has been specifically designed to provide professionals working in family and group child care homes with a convenient, easy to access, high interest workshop focusing solely on fire safety and preparedness in child care homes. A workshop that preschool educators and child care home professionals will find extremely informative and helpful, with the common goal of helping child care home owners and any assisting staff members, become Fire Safe ... Fire Smart, as well as ensuring that their child care 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, New Jersey Workforce Registry, New York Aspire Registry, and Massachusetts Early Education and Care approved instructors, as well as approved National Fire Academy "Community Safety Instructors". Additionally, instructors are 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 four (5) lessons and focuses on the following topics:
-- Fire Safety & Preparedness in Child Care Homes
-- Emergency Evacuation & Escape Route Planning
-- Smoke Alarms & Smoke Alarm Maintenance
-- Fire Extinguisher Training
-- Educational Fire Safety & Prevention Teacher Resources
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.
Participants taking the Fire Safe … Fire Smart online workshop for family and group child care homes receive a Certificate of Attendance and one (1 1/2) clock hours of in-service training. The "Certificate of Completion" automatically becomes available for downloading upon a participant's successful completion of the workshop, and is also emailed to the participant by The Learningtree Network's learning platform.
Workshop also includes a "Special" downloadable bonus ebook Teaching Children About Fire Safety.
Course Curriculum/Table of Contents
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StartLesson 1: Maintaining a Fire-Safe Child Care Home
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StartLesson 2: Developing a Child Care Home Emergency Evacuation Plan
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StartLesson 3: Smoke Alarms & Smoke Detectors
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StartLessons 1, 2, & 3: QUIZ
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StartFire Safety Checklist for Family & Group Child Care Homes (Print Version)
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StartEmergency Evacuation Plan for Family & Group Child Care Homes (Print Version)
Your Instructor
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).