Great Beginnings: An Introduction to Child Care
Course Description:
This introductory course provides an overview of information that adults should understand before working with young children.
This course covers developmental stages, age appropriate activities for children, positive guidance techniques, ways to build children’s self-esteem, health and safety practices, ways to support children’s learning and development, supervision, and detection and reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect. See the course topics listed below for more information on what is covered.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing Great Beginnings: An Introduction to Child Care you will be able to identify techniques to facilitate young children’s physical, cognitive, and language development; describe the stages of young children’s cognitive development; select appropriate learning activities for young children; and describe the ways in which children’s motor skills develop. Read more.
Attention Nevada Students: This course fulfills your Child Development/Guidance and Discipline training requirement.
Topics Covered in Great Beginnings: An Introduction to Child Care:
- Typical physical growth patterns of young children
- Ways to facilitate children's physical development
- The stages of young children's cognitive development
- How young children learn
- The adult's role in children's learning and development
- Ways to keep young children safe and healthy, including healthful eating practices, disease control, sanitation practices, safe space and equipment, safety practices, recognizing signs of child abuse and neglect, and helping children who have been abused and neglected
- Guidelines for handling accidents and injuries
- Fire safety precautions
Prerequisites: Must be able to fluently read and write English.
Instructional methodology: Read written material, view videos, listen to audio segments.
Assessment methods: Multiple choice quizzes and written assignments.
Comments on Great Beginnings: An Introduction to Child Care:
So far I really enjoy this course and I have learned so much more to go along with all of my experience. - Upper Marlboro, Maryland
Care Courses currently offers over 30 professional development courses and one non-credit training tutorial on the CDA process. All courses offer clock hours and an official online certificate of completion. The free CDA tutorial does not offer clock hours or a certificate.
Care Courses' course tuition entitles one person to receive the clock hours granted by a course upon successful completion. Bundle pricing covers tuition for all the courses included in a bundle.
To receive the CEUs and Clock Hours for a course, you must adhere to and sign our honor code, follow directions on written assignments and show comprehension of the course content. You must make 70% or better on all course quizzes. Less than 70% will result in trainer review and evaluation. If review indicates the need for discussion, you will be informed that you must speak with a trainer. You will be given a second chance to make 70% or better. Should you fail to do so, you will receive a letter indicating that you did not pass the course and may not retake the course for 12 months.
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