A Joyful Life of Caregiving
Course Description:
This 1-clock-hour introductory child care training course suggests many ways for you and the children in your care to have wonderful and joyful days together.
A Joyful Life of Caregiving includes many ideas on how to get your creative juices flowing. We really enjoyed creating this course as we brain-stormed ways to help caregivers relax and invigorate the time spent providing care to children.
This course is also an excellent introduction to Care Courses, and will help you understand our online system and course process.
Most Care Courses are offered in both book (with online testing) and fully online format. A Joyful Life of Caregiving is only offered in our fully online format. Once your order is complete, you should receive an enrollment code email within 2-10 minutes. Use this enrollment code to activate your course within the "My Courses" area of your online Care Courses account.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing A Joyful Life of Caregiving, you will be able to discuss why your work with children is important, discuss ways to create a joyful atmosphere for children and adults, and determine the most important aspects of children’s environments.
Attention Maryland students: This course can be used as elective training hours.
Attention Minnesota Students: This course is not accepted by MNCPD.
Topics Covered in A Joyful Life of Caregiving:
- Ways to create a joyful atmosphere for children and adults
- Why your work with children is important
- Ways to take care of yourself
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 quiz and written assignments.
Student comments on A Joyful Life of Caregiving:
Everything was wonderful! I will absolutely use your services again when I need more training, and would recommend your services to anyone needing them. Thank you so much! – Dixon, Illinois
I am very happy with my course so far! I absolutely love the simplicity of navigating the course and my profile page to get to my courses! It allows me to focus on the material and not the technology parts of doing the course! I am even more excited that I can do these courses in my own time - it has allowed me to have the flexibility of learning while having small children at home. Finally, the support from the Care Courses School has been absolutely amazing! - Alberta, Canada
As always everything went well with my Care Courses [Joyful Life of Caregiving, Sun Safety, Observing and Recording Children’s Development, Sanitation for Disease Prevention in Early Childhood Programs]. I will be renewing my CDA and Care Courses is helping me obtain the CEU's I need to complete this task. I will be ordering another Care Course soon. - North Providence, Rhode
I have already completed the course, A Joyful Life of Caregiving. The course was recommended by our director to remind us to find the joy in caring for children. Even though I am a financial secretary for a preschool and get bogged down in the “business” side of caring for children, and I am not in the classroom (except to volunteer on Sundays at church), it was a much needed reminder of some strategies to be the best I can be for the kids and parents, because they deserve it! I really enjoyed the course and would highly recommend it. Thank you for offering it. - Alabaster, Alabama
The course was interesting and relevant to the work I do. The site was easy to use and I will be taking more Care Courses. Thank you for following up! - Bosie, Idaho
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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