FIND Professional Development (FIND-PD)

For early childhood educators who want to enhance their positive interactions with children.

Ready to take FIND-PD at no cost?

Are you an educator seeking clock hours from one of the following states? To receive clock hours, access the course through your state’s registry by searching for “FIND Professional Development”.

• Colorado: Access through Colorado Shines PDIS

• Ohio: Access through OCCRRA

• California: Access through California’s Early Care & Education Workforce Registry

• Pennsylvania: Access through Pennsylvania’s PD Registry

Not seeking clock hours from one of the states above?

Simply Register Here

 
 
 

Available Now to all Educators:

 

Course 1: Serve and Return Interactions (English and Spanish)

  • Why Early Caregiver-Child Interactions?

  • Introducing Serve & Return Interactions

  • Unlocking a Child’s Potential Through a Strengths-Based Approach and Shared Focus

Course 2: Responding in Developmentally Supportive Ways (English and Spanish) 

  • Supporting and Encouraging

  • The Power of Naming

  • Using Positive Reinforcement to Shape Children’s Behavior

Course 3: Extending Serve and Return Interactions (English only)

  • Back and Forth Interactions

  • Endings and Beginnings

  • The Importance of Waiting

 
 
 

What is FIND-PD?

FIND-PD is a strengths-based, online, self-paced training for early childhood educators.

FIND-PD is designed to build on educators’ existing capabilities and offers practical strategies to enhance responsive interactions, build child skills, and reduce challenging child behaviors.

Each module takes no more than 20-30 minutes to complete!

Modules can be easily incorporated into an educator’s busy schedule, and include reflection questions, prompts for putting skills into practice, and checks for understanding to support educators in effectively applying strategies to their daily routines.

Each module includes access to extra resources relevant to the topics covered.

Brought to you by the Stanford Center on Early Childhood.

 
 
 
 

Exemplar Video Clips

FIND-PD utilizes a library of exemplar video clips to illustrate key concepts. These clips are captured from naturally occurring educator-child interactions and are presented in a structured and intentional way.

Using the FIND microsocial editing approach, clips hone in on developmentally supportive interactions and are further broken down to highlight salient aspects of the interactions.

 
 

The FIND-PD Training

 

  • Serve and Return Interactions

    Module 1 • Why Early Caregiver-Child Interactions?

    Module 2 • Introducing Serve and Return Interactions

    Module 3 • Unlocking a Child’s Potential Through a Strength-Based Approach and Shared Focus

  • Responding in Developmentally Supportive Ways

    Module 1 • Supporting & Encouraging

    Module 2 • The Power of Naming

    Module 3 • Using Positive Reinforcement to Shape Children’s Behavior

  • Extending Serve and Return Interactions

    Module 1 • Back & Forth Interactions

    Module 2 • Endings & Beginnings

    Module 3 • The Importance of Waiting

  • Setting Children Up for Successful Interactions

    Module 1 • Routines

    Module 2 • Giving Clear Directions

    Module 3 • Pre-teaching

    Module 4 • Using Scaffolding and Incentives to Build Child Skills

  • Tools for Responding to Challenging Behaviors

    Module 1 • Understanding Challenging Child Behaviors

    Module 2 • Distracting and Redirecting

    Module 3 • Avoiding Power Struggles

    Module 4 • Setting Limits and Privilege Loss 

 
 
 
 
 

FIND-PD leverages decades of research dedicated to developing evidence-based programs to support healthy child development. Building on the foundational FIND “classic” model, as well as other programs created by Philip Fisher, PhD, Director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, FIND-PD continues to expand its impact. To explore the research and evidence of FIND’s impact on adult and child outcomes visit our research and publications pages.

The FIND-PD training is in the early stages of development. The FIND team is actively seeking input from early childhood educators to refine and enhance the training. Future courses will be designed according to the interest of educators, caregivers, and professional development leaders within their organizations.

 

FIND is based in the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. The SCEC conducts research and creates tools to support children, families, caregivers, and practitioners. The SCEC’s work spans research, policy, and practice essential to advancing the world’s capacity to nurture its youngest learners and help them reach their full potential. The SCEC is an initiative of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning.