Engaging Families Around WMELS is a training curriculum developed to support families understanding of the standards, domains of development, and developmentally appropriate expectations for children birth to first grade. The training content introduces developmentally appropriate practice, importance of children’s play, children’s stages of learning & early childhood assessment practices.

Engaging Families Around WMELS provides individuals who have completed the full WMELS training with a strategy for sharing the information they have learned with the families they serve in their program or classroom. “Engaging Families Around WI Model Early Learning Standards” includes: training curriculum organized into 4 one-hour sessions; 6 handouts & 6 WMELS Family Tip Sheets.

Engaging Families around WMELS
Training Curriculum

Family Tip Sheets Birth - 1st Grade
Using WMELS Family Tip Sheets (pdf)  Spanish
Approaches to Learning (pdf)  Spanish
Cognition & General Knowledge (pdf)  Spanish
Health & Physical Development (pdf)  Spanish
Language Development & Communication (pdf)  Spanish
Social Emotional Development (pdf)  Spanish

Handouts
HO#1 North, South East & West (pdf)
HO#2 Focus Child Web (pdf)
HO#3 My Teacher Wants to Know (pdf)
HO#4 Stages of Learning (pdf)
HO#5 Discussion Questions (pdf)
HO#6 Developmental Observation - How can you help me learn to love books (pdf)

WI Model Early Learning Standards 5th Edition may be purchased from DPI Publication Sales.

WI Model Early Learning Standards Bookmarks and Milestone Moments Booklets may be ordered at no charge from DOA Document Sales.

Stages of Learning Toy Bags used during the training can be borrowed from the Child Care Information Center (CCIC) or call 1-800-362-7353.

Direct questions to: Tiffany Swain 
WECCP Early Childhood Content & Outreach Specialist
4K and 4K Community Approach

[email protected]

Updated 1/19/2021