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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:- 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
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