Professional Development

Meeting the Needs of Your Early Childhood Program

As an early childhood professional, you know there's no substitute for the knowledge and skills that enable you do your job well. Whatever your experience level, Kaplan is dedicated to supporting your professional growth with training, consulting, and workshops.

Kaplan Professional Development Program empowers you to customize your own training programs as part of a comprehensive professional growth and enhancement plan for you and your staff.

Topic-Specific Training

We offer a wide variety of topics relevant to infant/toddler programs, preschools, and school age educators and caregivers. Professional and experienced consultants deliver in-service trainings to small or large groups at times and locations convenient to you.

Customized Training

Our team of experienced educators and creative instructors provide quality training on today's most important educational topics. If you don't see a training that meets your needs listed under topic-specific training, please call us. In addition to our featured trainers, we have many trainers who partner with us to provide state of the art professional development and we can customize training to fit your needs as well as your budget.

Featured Presenters

We are proud to have some the biggest names in the field of early childhood as featured trainers. These experts have partnered with us and are available for a wide variety of speaking engagements including keynote addresses, breakout sessions, parent workshops and full-day professional development seminars.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) Online

Kaplan Early Learning offers more than 100 online International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) CEU courses through ChildCare Education Institute, a nationally accredited distance training institution.

Program Consulting

Our professional development consultants are leading early childhood experts who provide on-site consulting on a range of topics, including:

Environment and curriculum assessment
Staff observation and mentoring
How to select a curriculum and appropriate assessment tools
Training plan development for new child care agency staff
Assessment and planning for the training and professional development of experienced staff.

Nationwide Calendar of Professional Development Workshops

By Registration Events

Don't miss exciting opportunities to meet renowned authors, engage with the latest thinking in early childhood education, and network with peers from around the country with our nationwide workshops.

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