Child Development and Guidance

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20 Clock Hours / 2.0 CEUs for CDA renewal     (New York caregivers check here for clock hours: NY Training Topics)

Course fee for one student — $50.00

Description: Learn 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.

This is a book course sent to you via mail or UPS. The $50.00 entitles one person to receive the 20 clock hours granted by this course (assuming you pass each lesson/chapter with a 70% or better). Your book will include an enrollment card which you must include when you send in your work for grading. Once you have completed the course and mailed in your answers to us, you can expect to receive your certificate within 1-3 weeks (depending on the grading option you choose).  Click here for grading options.

20 Clock hours cover: 9 hours in child growth and development, 5 hours in child guidance, 3 hours in child observation and assessment, 3 hours in curriculum and instructional methods

Topics covered in this course:
  1. How children develop
  2. 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)
  3. Ways caregivers can meet the needs of infants and toddlers
  4. Checklists for use in assessing the developmental progress of individual children
  5. Positive guidance
  6. Why children need guidance
  7. The meaning of terms relating to guiding children's behavior
  8. Techniques of positive guidance
  9. Ways to help children develop a positive self-concept, and strategies for dealing with disruptive, noncompliant, and aggressive behaviors
  10. Routines, schedules, and transitions between activities
  11. Elements of a typical daily schedule for early childhood programs
  12. Why routines are important for children's development
  13. Typical routines for children's days at an early childhood facility
  14. Reasons why transitions are often troublesome
  15. Ideas for ensuring pleasant transitions that contribute to children's development and learning
  16. Ways to promote child development through activities
  17. The meaning of developmentally appropriate curriculum
  18. Guidelines for developmentally appropriate curriculum planning
  19. Goals for young children's development
  20. Strategies to promote child development
  21. How to develop and use lesson plans
  22. Ways to create developmentally appropriate learning environments
  23. Suggestions for selecting toys and play equipment to meet children's needs

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