Alamo Community Colleges News & Events

SAC Partners to Provide Free Early Childhood Teacher Training on KLRN-TV Series

For Immediate Release
July 3, 2007
Contact: John Hammond, Director of Public Relations, San Antonio College
210/733-2147
jhammond@accd.edu

The San Antonio College Child Development Department and Continuing Education Training Network are partnering with the City of San Antonio's Office of Community Initiatives, KLRN-TV, UTSA, Positive Beginnings, and Family Services to promote the free professional development of early childhood teachers this Fall Semester.

The program is funded by a $450,000 grant from the Office of Community Initiatives, and there is no cost to the public to register for training.

The SAC Child Development Department will offer instruction in a series of six courses, and the Continuing Education Network will provide CEU credits for community development. KLRN will provide video programming and a pre- and post-test assessment of cognitive progress.

Course topics include Understanding Traumatized and Maltreated Children, The Six Core Strengths for Healthy Childhood Development, The Whole Child (in Spanish and English), I Am Your Child, and Ready for Life.

According to Steve Sparks, Director of Operations for SAC Continuing Education Network, 81 people registered for the first series of courses that began in May, 64 for the June series, and registration is now underway for July. For more information, call Lisa McGrath, Vice President of Education at KLRN-TV, at 210-270-9000.