Professional Courses Overview

Magda Gerber believed that infants deserve the best a society can give them. RIE helps caregivers in a wide array of childcare settings provide every infant and toddler with the responsive and respectful care that is foundational to a healthy life.

Classes for Professionals

How do we provide the best possible care to infants and toddlers in childcare settings? Our professional development programs help doulas, nannies, cuidadoras, family childcare, and center-based caregivers gain new insight and skills for their work in infant/toddler care.

Intro to Educaring
For caregiving professionals and parents

A 3-hour introductory overview of the Educaring® Approach. A licensed RIE Associate will review how the Educaring Approach seeks to help parents and professionals build stable, secure, healthy relationships with infants and toddlers, encouraging the children’s natural abilities from the very start.

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RIE Foundations: Theory & Observation
For professionals seeking career advancement and parents seeking in-depth training

A sixty-hour deep-dive into the Educaring Approach that provides 36 hours of in-class shared collaborative learning experiences complemented by extensive outside-of-class observations and self-study.  The course is meant to enable the student to achieve and internalize the Magda Gerber’s Educaring Approach fully.  For those wishing to apply to enter RIE’s apprenticing pathway to become a credentialed RIE Associate, successful completion of this course is a pre-requisite.

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Nurturing Nanny

This 12-hour course provides in-home caregivers the knowledge and practical application helpful to provide quality child care with greater ease.

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Cuidadoras Cariñosas

Esta curso de 12-horas está diseñada para ayudar a las niñeras a trabajar de manera más efectiva y placentera.

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“I did not expect the RIE Foundations course to be such a rich and personal experience. This course has truly been life-changing for me. I think the most noticeable change I will make when I return to work will be my pace. I am going to slow down and then slow down some more– to really focus on the infants in my care–to give them my FULL attention. I know the children and I will benefit greatly.”
Carolyn Foundations Student
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“I’ve learned about what respect really means applied to infants and toddlers and that trust and confidence are as important coming from adult to child as they are coming from child to adult.”
Melissa Foundations Student
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“As a mother of two young children as well as an Early Childhood Educator, currently working with Toddlers, this course...was highly relevant and helpful. I feel that I learned more in six short weeks than I did in my whole BA/MA collegiate studies.”
Foundations Student
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“This class has just been wonderful... I really appreciate the opportunity to take this class online. I don’t know when I would have been able to take a class like this if I had to travel or take time away from work...The variety of reading, watching/listening to lectures and assignments is great. I love the small groups for discussions. Love it all.”
Online Foundations Student

Professional Moments

Professionals who practice the Educaring Approach share memorable moments when the baby in their care noticeably responded to their RIE practice.

What’s your moment?

Looking in the mirror
I know when I'm ready
The value of quietly waiting
Not a scratch on him
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Events for Professionals

We offer free and subscription webinars throughout the year, and an annual conference with great content for childcare providers working in infant or toddler rooms.

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“I would like to make the people who work with infants the most honorable and best paid–not overpaid, because it shouldn’t be done by people who do it only for the money. Educaring should be done by very capable people who also make a decent living. That’s what I would wish for the future. 

We can make it happen. It won’t happen in weeks or even in months. The politician will not make it happen. We have to do it. We have to present ourselves like professional people who do a most important job, which we do. Slowly, not in my time but in yours, this may have results. Keep fighting for it.”

Magda Gerber Educaring, 1995