A Teaching Legacy: How RealCare Baby® Is Shaping Generations of Learners
RealCare Baby 4 helps today’s classrooms deliver the most realistic infant care lessons yet. For nearly three decades, RealCare Baby has helped Mia Battistone’s Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) students at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, MN, understand what it really takes to care for an infant. “I have been a RealCare Baby user […]
Transforming Childcare Education: How Hands-On Simulations Are Helping WI Students Prepare For Real-World Success
For over a decade, Marshfield High School Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) Teacher Rae Ann Leonhardt has made it her mission to prepare her students for the future. Leonhardt’s dual-credit courses offer hands-on environments that prepare students to earn industry-recognized credentials. Leonhardt leverages a variety of tools to achieve her goals, from in-class and overnight […]
MN Uses High School Baby Project to Prepare Students for CDA Credential
Park Rapids Area High School in Minnesota is offering a new Child Development Associate (CDA) course to their juniors and seniors. These students will have the opportunity to work with RealCare Baby® infant simulators in a high school baby project as well as young children to earn a CDA credential through the class. The CDA […]
Students Gain Real-World Experience with the NEW Child Care Simulation Program
“As a program, Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) is transitioning from being ‘in the home’ to being career-based. And so that’s what we’ve been focusing on,” said Ponderosa High School FCS Teacher Letha Hougland. “This new child care simulation program just comes and does exactly that – like, exactly that – transitioning from teaching students […]
Baby simulator helping NY students learn valuable lessons
Nellie Garrow-Coleman, LCSW-R, has worked in education for 23 years. For the last four years, she has supported students at The High School of Arts and Technology on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Campus in New York. About a year ago, she started using a popular Baby simulator to assist her teen pregnancy prevention efforts. […]
New Child Care Skills Kits Prepare Students for Careers
As she prepared for the 2020-2021 academic year, Gallatin High School (GHS) Family and Consumer Sciences teacher Bethany Ringer knew interactive learning aids would be key to helping her students develop child care skills. She had spent the previous nine years teaching across town at Bozeman High School, where her students enjoyed hands-on learning experiences […]
MO College Creates Geriatric Sensory Workshop to Prepare Students for Health Care Careers
Americans are aging, and they’re aging quickly. The Urban Institute reports that the number of Americans ages 65 and older will more than double over the next 40 years, reaching 80 million in 2040, while the number of adults ages 85 and older will nearly quadruple. In fact, the US Census reports that older adults […]
New Teaching Kit Opens NE Students’ Eyes to Elder Abuse
Joan Hines teaches Family & Consumer Sciences (FCS) at Southwest High School in Lincoln, Nebraska. During her nine-week Lifespan Development class, Hines usually begins with lessons about prenatal development and concludes by discussing the last phase of life. Of course, the 2020-2021 school year was a different experience for students and teachers across the country, […]
What Does RealCare Baby Mean To You? Real Teachers Weigh In
We recently asked teachers across the country what RealCare Baby means to them. Some of these teachers have used Baby for only a few years; some have been using Baby for decades. All of them use Baby in different ways as they address lessons on parenting, child care careers and more. We asked each of […]