Preschoolers in Child Care
Comprehensive training on the development of preschoolers—play, learning, guidance, safety, and practical strategies.
Course Overview
This course applies to preschoolers.
This comprehensive and informative course covers the physical, cognitive, language, and social–emotional development of 3, 4, and 5-year-olds. You will learn typical characteristics and needs of children at each age level, the role of play in children's learning, and ways to facilitate children's optimum development in all domains. This course covers ways to keep children safe and healthy.
See the course learning outcomes and topics below for more on what you will learn.
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Course formats
This course is offered in both our coursebook (with required online component/testing) and our fully online format. The online format of this course includes audio narration in most course sections. Click here to learn more about Care Courses' training formats.
Acceptance information
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This course is accepted in all states except as indicated:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado - this course fulfills the social-emotional requirement
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky - this course can only be used for the CDA and CDA renewal
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada - this course fulfills the child development/guidance and discipline training requirement.
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- Washington, DC
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
In Colorado, this course fulfills the social-emotional development training requirement. For more courses that fulfill this requirement, visit: Colorado's social emotional development training.
The Kentucky Division of Child Care and ECE-TRIS do not accept courses that are more than 15 clock hours in length for annual professional development training. In Kentucky, this 20-clock-hour course may only be used for CDA and CDA renewal training.
In Nevada, this course fulfills the Child Development/Guidance and Discipline training requirement. For more courses that fulfill this requirement, visit: Nevada Child Development/Guidance and Discipline training.
Learning outcomes
After completing this course you will be able to:
- Describe typical physical growth patterns of young children; explain the four phases of motor development
- Describe skills, functions and traits of the brain
- Describe aspects of typical perceptual and motor skill development for young children
- And much more! Click to view all of the learning outcomes for this course.
Topics covered
- Typical physical growth patterns of young children
- The four phases of motor development
- Typical motor skill levels for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds
- The importance of optimum motor development during the preschool years
- Ways to facilitate young children's optimum motor development
- What cognitive development means
- Typical cognitive abilities of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds
- Ways to help young children learn various concepts
- Typical language development levels of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds
- Ways to facilitate children's language development
- The role of play in children's learning
- Creative ways to enrich children's play experiences to facilitate cognitive development
- Typical emotional development characteristics of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds
- How temperament influences children's behavior
- Ways to meet children's emotional needs
- Ways to help fearful children
- Sources of children's frustration
- Ways to minimize frustration in children's environment
- Strategies to help children deal with frustration
- How choices help children learn responsibility
- Typical social development levels of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds
- Pro-social behaviors that preschoolers need to learn
- Strategies for helping children understand other people's feelings
- Strategies for helping children learn pro-social skills
- Strategies for helping children be successful in social interactions
- Ways to protect young children's health and meet their nutritional needs
- Ways to help ensure young children's safety
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How Care Courses® Training Works: Details & Support
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Course Details & Support
Prerequisites
- Language: Fluent reading and writing in the language of instruction (English or Spanish).
- Technology: Internet access and a web-enabled device (computer, smartphone, or tablet).
Access & Completion Deadline
- This training expires 12 months from the date of purchase.
- To receive a certificate of completion, you must successfully finish the course before the expiration date.
Learning Methods
- Read instructor-written material
- Watch videos
- Listen to audio segments
Assessments
- Multiple-choice quizzes
- Written assignments
Requirements for CEUs and Clock Hours
To earn CEUs and Clock Hours for a course, you must:
- Agree to and acknowledge our Honor Code & Policy
- Follow all instructions for written assignments
- Demonstrate comprehension of the course content
- Achieve the passing score specified in your course.
Quizzes and Assessments
- If your score falls below the passing mark, a trainer will review your work. If needed, you may be asked to speak with a trainer.
- You will have a second chance to retake any quiz or assessment.
- If you do not pass on your second attempt, contact us at info@carecourses.com. We will review your course and follow up directly.
- All quizzes are open book; all answers are found in the course material.
Certificates
- Official Care Courses certificates of completion record your clock hours and CEUs.
- Certificates are available in the My Courses area of your account.
- Please note: All course and certificate dates and times are on Eastern Time.
Getting Started
- See how our training works on the training process page.
- Watch our course navigation video for a quick tour of the online portal.
- Free Unlimited Assistance
- We’re here to help with training, billing, and technical support questions.
- Phone: 1-800-685-7610 (Mon–Fri, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern)
- Email: info@CareCourses.com or techsupport@CareCourses.com (days, evenings, and weekends)
About Care Courses
- Care Courses offers over 50 professional development courses and one non-credit training tutorial on the CDA process.
- All professional development courses include clock hours, CEUs, and an official online certificate of completion.
- (The free CDA tutorial does not offer clock hours or a certificate.)
Tuition & Bundles
- Course tuition entitles one person to receive the clock hours and CEUs granted upon successful completion.
- Bundle pricing covers tuition for all courses included in the bundle.
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