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Practice with Finch™ Formative Games
Learn how to make child assessment easier with Finch™ Formative Games! By completing this experience, you will get hands on practice with Finch™ Formative Games before using them in your classroom.
There is no credit associated with this practice experience.
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The Creative Curriculum® for Twos: Experiences
This 10-hour course offers 1.0 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 2.
Infants, toddlers, and twos learn through rich sensory experiences. This course introduces eight key experiences that support exploration, relationship-building, and early learning. Learn how to create environments tailored to the needs of very young children and use everyday moments to nurture curiosity and development through intentional experiences and responsive interactions.
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Nourishing Preschoolers
This 2-hour course offers 0.2 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 1. “Yuck! I don’t like that food!” Chances are if you’re caring for preschoolers, you’ve heard this many times. And at the same time, you know how important it is for children to eat a variety of healthy foods. So, what are you supposed to do? This course, provided by Nemours Children’s Health, covers creating healthy eating habits in preschoolers, common eating challenges, and managing those challenges. It also discusses family style dining and suggests activities related to developing food-related milestones in children ages 3–5.
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1 Hour
Cómo empezar con el El Currículo Creativo™ para bebés y El Currículo Creativo™ para niños pequeños
Este curso de 4 horas se alinea con el área temática 8 de CDA y otorga 0.4 CEUs.
¡Bienvenidos a los nuevos currículos para bebés y niños pequeños! Este curso interactivo de 4 horas le presenta El Currículo Creativo™ para bebés y El Currículo Creativo™ para niños pequeños. Aprenderá a comenzar con los recursos de enseñanza. Luego, explorará las características de un entorno de aprendizaje receptivo. También aprenderá cómo apoyar el desarrollo y el aprendizaje a través de cada rutina y experiencia. Finalmente, obtendrá estrategias para construir relaciones con los niños y sus familias.
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1 Hour
Setting Up SmartTeach® for Administrators
This 1-hour tutorial offers a certificate of completion but does not include CEUs.
Newly updated! Discover the new admin features in SmartTeach® and learn the simple yet essential steps to setting up your account. In this course, a series of tutorial videos will show you how to configure programs, sites, users, class groups, children, and product licenses in SmartTeach®.
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4 Hours
Child Assessment: The Essentials of Individualizing
This 4-hour course offers 0.4 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 7.
Participants will learn how to recognize what each child in their classroom needs to reach their full potential. Explore the principles of child assessment, the role of observation, and techniques for collecting anecdotal notes. Participants will have the opportunity to survey a variety of assessment tools and will reinforce how to link assessment results to planning for each child as an individual.
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5 Hours
School-Age Care: Learning by Design
This 5-hour course offers 0.5 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 3.
This course provides information about the unique needs of school-age children and the type of environment that engages the whole child and best fosters learning. Participants will examine how to encourage exploration, uncover interests, and support peer relationships. Strategies that extend learning from the school day as well as encourage children to unwind, relax, be themselves, and socialize will be explored. Specific activities that support literacy and math learning, and physical development are presented.
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5 Hours
Enriching Indoor Environments
This 5-hour course offers 0.5 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 1.
An early childhood environment is many things: it’s a safe place where children are protected from the elements and are easily supervised, and it is where important activities of the day take place, such as playing, eating, sleeping, and learning. Beyond the basics, the physical environment is an image of the teacher’s planning and the student’s learning. It should be well organized, comfortable, and personable and offer a variety of materials for cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. In this course, participants will learn best practices in designing an inclusive indoor environment that fosters children’s developmental growth. Learn to create an indoor environment where all children feel secure, comfortable, welcome, and ready to explore.
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3 Hours
Liderazgo Administrativo
Este curso de 3 horas otorga 0.3 CEU y está alineado con el Área Temática 5 del CDA.
El propósito del curso de Liderazgo Administrativo es que los profesionales de infancia temprana adquieran los conocimientos y destrezas necesarios para ser un líder administrativo eficiente. El Liderazgo Administrativo está dividido en dos categorías: el liderazgo operativo y el liderazgo estratégico. El liderazgo operativo incluye las tareas de contratar y capacitar al personal, y crear y gestionar presupuestos. El liderazgo estratégico consiste en liderar el programa pensando en el futuro y asegurar que todo el personal trabaje para alcanzar una visión compartida. Este curso explorará tanto el liderazgo operativo como el estratégico.
Equivalente a: Administrative Leadership
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3 Hours
3 Hours
Pyramid: Interactive Storytelling
This 3-hour course offers 0.3 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 2.
The Pyramid Approach to Early Learning is a scientifically-based early learning method that amplifies young children’s learning when applied to any early childhood curriculum. Participants will explore Pyramid’s Four-Step Distancing Process with children’s literature to intentionally broaden and deepen children’s understanding of story concepts and ideas. This course helps teachers intentionally apply Pyramid using children’s literature to create developmentally appropriate strategies and facilitate children’s learning.
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Make the greatest impact on the children in your program with professional development that empowers your teams to enhance and share their skills and knowledge and build their professional network.
