{"id":1137,"date":"2017-03-12T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowa.ldaamerica.net\/?page_id=1137"},"modified":"2022-09-23T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:59:38","slug":"about-first-teacher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/services\/first-teacher-iowa\/about-first-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"What is First Teacher of Iowa?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"103\" src=\"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FT-Collage-no-border-1024x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FT-Collage-no-border-1024x103.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FT-Collage-no-border-300x30.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FT-Collage-no-border-768x78.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FT-Collage-no-border-1536x155.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/FT-Collage-no-border-2048x207.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First Teacher is a project organized and implemented by the Learning Disabilities Association of Iowa. As we all know, parents are a child\u2019s first teacher and much learning happens before a child ever enters a formal education program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The goals of the First Teacher Project include the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Empower parents with free resources for providing a stimulating, positive learning environment in the home in order to improve school readiness and learning outcomes.<\/li><li>Provide parents with information about learning milestones so that learning difficulties can be identified and early interventions provided.<\/li><li>Partner with parents, agencies and organizations to disseminate First Teacher resources including face-to-face meetings, modeling of strategies, etc.<\/li><li>Provide quick access to free resources for educators to share with parents that they work with.<\/li><li>Empower parents with information about learning disabilities so that they are able to better advocate for their child.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/services\/first-teacher-iowa\/ftresources\/elem-rd-wr-math\/\">NEW! More Resources for Elementary Reading, Writing, and Math!<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/services\/first-teacher-iowa\/ftresources\/\">First Teacher Free Resources<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/First-Teacher-of-Iowa-Brochure.pdf\">First Teacher Brochure<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/services\/first-teacher-iowa\/ftresources\/parents\/\">Information for Parents<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Teacher is a project organized and implemented by the Learning Disabilities Association of Iowa. As we all know, parents are a child\u2019s first teacher and much learning happens before a child ever enters a formal education program. The goals of the First Teacher Project include the following: Empower parents with free resources for providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":667,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1137\/revisions\/3598"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaiowa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}