Care Courses is a distance learning school since 1986. It offers early childhood (ECE) training that has helped hundreds of early childhood professionals get their CDA (Child Development Associates Credential) or CCP (Certified Childcare Professional) as quickly and painlessly as possible, while at the same time helping them to better understand their children and business.
Most Care Courses come in both book (paper) format and electronic (emailed) format. What you learn, the cost and the clock hours are the same regardless of which format you choose; only the delivery method is different. Book courses are send by free standard shipping to your home or office address, usually arriving in 10 business days after payment. Book Courses are great because you can read them when and where you please, once finished starting a course library to refer to later.
Child Development and Guidance - studies the typical developmental characteristics of children from birth to 6 years of age, techniques of positive guidance, and ways to meet children’s developmental needs as you plan children’s days in an early childhood facility. Once you have completed the course and mailed (electronic courses may be faxed) in your answers, you can expect to receive your certificate within 1-3 weeks (depending on the grading option you choose).
Course topics:
- How children develop
- Typical developmental characteristics (behaviors and skill development) and needs of infants (birth to 12 months), toddlers (1 year to 2½ years), preschoolers (2½ to 5), and transition (5 to 6 years)
- Ways caregivers can meet the needs of infants and toddlers
- Checklists for use in assessing the developmental progress of individual children
- Positive guidance
- Why children need guidance
- The meaning of terms relating to guiding children's behavior
- Techniques of positive guidance
- Ways to help children develop a positive self-concept, and strategies for dealing with disruptive, -noncompliant, and aggressive behaviors
- Routines, schedules, and transitions between activities
- Elements of a typical daily schedule for early childhood programs
- Why routines are important for children's development
- Typical routines for children's days at an early childhood facility
- Reasons why transitions are often troublesome
- Ideas for ensuring pleasant transitions that contribute to children's development and learning
- Ways to promote child development through activities
- The meaning of developmentally appropriate curriculum
- Guidelines for developmentally appropriate curriculum planning
- Goals for young children's development
- Strategies to promote child development
- How to develop and use lesson plans
- Ways to create developmentally appropriate learning environments
- Suggestions for selecting toys and play equipment to meet children's needs
Tuition - $50.00
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