Principles of Child Development and Learning
Course Description:
This course applies to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Learn the basic principles of children's development and learning and ways to apply these principles to ensure a high-quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood program. Course includes suggestions for applying each principle to meet children's needs, help all children develop their strengths in all intelligences and address all learning styles. Includes helpful listings of developmental milestones for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. See the course topics listed below for more information on what is covered.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing Principles of Child Development and Learning you will be able to explain how specific principles apply to young children’s development and learning; and identify strategies to provide a high-quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood program based on understanding of these principles. Read more.
Attention Nevada Students: This course fulfills your Child Development/Guidance and Discipline training requirement.
Topics covered in Principles of Child Development and Learning:
- The basic principles of children’s development
- The different ways children are intelligent and learn
- The role of children’s social and cultural contexts in their learning and development
- Ways adults can apply the principles of children’s learning to provide a high-quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood program
- The role of challenges and practice in children’s development and learning and how to provide appropriate challenges for individual children
- The role of play in children’s development and learning
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.
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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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