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Creating Positive Connections
The love and nurturing that a child receives in the first few years of life can have effects on development that last a lifetime. As we learn more about children and how they develop, we understand more clearly the role of early relationships. Warm, nurturing relationships based on respect, understanding, and acceptance are essential for children’s optimal development. In this course, explore caregiver behaviors that create four positive connections: Teacher to child, child to child, child to environment, and teacher to family. Through interactive learning activities, group discussion forums, videos, reflective writing exercises, scenarios, and a field assignment, participants will learn to create an environment where relationships flourish. This course aligns with CDA Subject Area 3, and it is worth 0.4 CEU’s.
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The Creative Curriculum for Kindergarten: Foundation
This 10-hour course offers 1.0 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 8.
Build a strong start with The Creative Curriculum® for Kindergarten. This course offers an in-depth look at the foundational volumes and daily resources that support effective teaching and learning. Learn how to observe, document, and use insights about each child’s development to plan appropriate, engaging experiences. Discover how to create a responsive classroom where every child is supported, challenged, and celebrated.
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Building Positive Relationships
Participants will explore the impact of classroom climate on children’s behavior and learning. For instance, how do the subtle nuances of the teacher’s behavior impact the atmosphere in the classroom? You will review important ideas about the nature of positive relationships, and you will study examples and strategies to promote positive teacher-child and child-child relationships. Relationships are essential to children’s development and learning. A teacher’s ability to create a positive atmosphere will inspire positive relationships and support the education and healthy development of young children. This course aligns with CDA Subject Area 3, and it is worth 0.4 CEU’s.
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Amazing Development: Toddlers
To be a toddler teacher is to be witness to an incredible burst of energy and development! There is an incredible amount of growth and development that happens in children between the ages of 12 and 36 months. This course takes a deep dive into toddler development; building knowledge about the milestones that typically emerge during this period. With a greater understanding of typical development, teachers can plan developmentally appropriate interactions, scaffold learning with “just-right” experiences, and identify possible delays in their classroom. Teachers will build knowledge about the general topic of developmental milestones and specifically about the growth and developmental during the ages of 12 – 36 months. As teachers deepen their understanding of what can be expected from toddlers, they can identify delays, and support their development by planning “just right” interactions and activities. This course aligns with CDA Subject Area 7, and it is worth 0.4 CEU’s.
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Traveling With Precious Cargo 2025-2026
This 3-hour course offers 0.3 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 1.
When you think of Bus Safety, what do you think of? Driver requirements, seatbelts and child restraints? Yes, but there is so much more. In this course, participants will explore key components of safely transporting young children–before, during, and after the trip. Best practice recommendations from Caring for Our Children, as well as the National Highway Administration are referenced as learners explore loading zone safety, emergency prevention, and more. This course covers the CCDF topic of “Precautions in transporting children”.
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Program and Classroom Assessment
This 3-hour course offers 0.3 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 5.
The Program and Classroom Assessment Course focuses on self-evaluation in a single classroom or across multiple classrooms in a center-based program, or in a family child care home. The course prepares early childhood teachers, administrators, and family child care providers for self-guided, self-evaluation. The methods of evaluation are reviewed and include how to analyze the information and use it to make a quality improvement plan. This course involves two field assignments and evaluation tools.
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Enriching Play
This 3-hour course offers 0.3 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 8.
“Enriching Play” advances the role of the teacher as a play facilitator. In this course, participants will explore how to establish classroom conditions that promote rich play, when and how to join child initiated play without disrupting it, and how to purposefully plan and initiate play that captures and expands children’s imagination. Finally, the course offers strategies to support those children who might be overlooked or misunderstood because they are unable to engage in play. Enriching Play is based on the Dutch “Pyramid Approach to Early Learning, a scientifically based approach that deepens and broadens young children’s learning.
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Challenging Behavior: Reveal the Meaning
This 2-hour course offers 0.3 CEU and aligns with CDA Subject Area 3.
Children express their needs through words, facial expressions, body language, and behavior. When communication is sent in the form of challenging behavior, understanding the message can be difficult. Participants will explore the ways children speak to us through behavior and will examine the role teachers play in the two-way conversation. Participants will learn how to interpret children’s behavior, how to effectively teach social skills, how to develop an environment that supports cooperative and meaningful learning, and how to build partnershios with families.
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Basics of Inclusion
According to the Division of Exceptional Children (DEC), “Inclusion is children of all abilities learning, playing, and working together.” While this sounds great, teachers and parents may wonder if inclusion is really the best choice for a child. Will the child with disabilities struggle and the child without disabilities fall behind? This course introduces learners to the value of inclusion, steps to creating an inclusive classroom, laws regarding inclusion of children with disabilities, benefits to everyone involved, and the importance of teamwork with families. Participants will create their own inclusion policy and will practice pre-admissions conversations with parents. This course aligns with CDA Subject Area 8, and it is worth 0.3 CEU’s.
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Getting Started With GOLD®
Assessment is a key part of effective teaching. At its core, assessment is about asking two questions:
What is each child in my class capable of?
How can I build on each child’s current knowledge and abilities?
GOLD® can help you answer these questions. In this course, you will practice several strategies to gather information about children’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. By leveraging progressions of development and learning, you will strengthen your ability to make accurate assessment decisions. Finally, through tutorials and interactive examples, you will learn to use the digital tools within GOLD® that make assessment and individualized instruction easier. This module series is 4.5 hours long.
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Confident and Prepared Every Step of the Way
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.
