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Instructional Subject Areas List

CDA HLT.SAF 1.B  Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect Course

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Recognize the four types of abuse; emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and physical abuse. Learn how to recognize signs and symptoms of abuse to help caregivers deal with stressful situations. Explore signs of maltreatment, child abuse definitions, indicators, responding to, and reporting a disclosure.

 CDA HLT.SAF 1.A Health, Nutrition, & Safety: Obesity Awareness (Part 1) Course

 
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn the components of eating healthy, nutritional facts, maintaining a safe environment and childhood obesity. Building an awareness of childhood obesity and planning intentional physical education activities and food menus for children and families based on the “Let’s Move” Initiative and ChooseMyPlate are considered. Develop a parent handbook using the provided template and create lesson plan activities to use in daily teaching practices. Learners will also identify learning outcomes, transfer of learning strategies, and assessments used based on learning objectives.

CDA HLT.SAF 1.F Building and Physical Premises Safety including Storage of Bio-Contaminants and Hazardous Materials Course

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Be ready to implement safety standards, guidelines, and practices regarding building and physical premises safety in the early childcare environment. The information includes environmental health, potentially hazardous environmental factors, including plants, insects and toxic fumes and safe appropriate procedures for ensuring age appropriate toys for children of various age groups and developmental levels. Storage of bio-contaminants and hazardous materials are also discussed. Note: Always follow the licensing regulations for your state as they may vary from state to state.

CDA HLT.SAF 1.D Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning from Natural and Man-Made Events Course 

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals Seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn the recommended childcare guidelines to emergency preparedness and response planning from natural disasters or man-made events. Every school Emergency Operating Procedure (EOP) should include courses of action that will describe how students and staff can most effectively respond to an emergency situations to minimize the loss of life. Define mitigation as it relates to emergency management and teach children how to be resilient during emergency situations. Develop an emergency preparation checklist, prepare an emergency kit, and identify a response and recovery area for all children.

 CDA HLT.SAF 1.F Healthy Eating in Child Care Course

 
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals Seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Explore nutrition principles, health standards, and food safety. Know the importance and benefits of eating healthy given nutritional facts, sodium and sugar intake, and the dietary guidelines for Americans, identify guidelines for health standards and nutrition, implement policies that include, but not limited to food hygiene, hand-washing, special diets and food allergies.

CDA HLT.SAF 1.G  Transportation Safety in the Child Care Environment Course 

1 Clock Hour/0.1 CEU
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals Seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Transporting children in child care is a high-risk activity. Careful planning, proactive, and protective measures must be taken for Child care operators, staff, and parents when transporting children on field trips. Learn safe practices when transporting children and adhere to all National Transportation Board Guidelines. Careful planning reduces the risk of harm or injury to children and reduces liability for child care operators and their programs.

CDA PHY.INT 2.A The Growing Brain - Cognitive and Executive Function Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs 
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Unit 4 Participant Manual
Course Description: Children learn best when caregivers follow their lead and use everyday experiences to teach important concepts. Explore how helping children you serve see themselves as good learners builds their confidence, making it more likely that they will persevere through the challenges they encounter.

CDA OB.REC 2.B The Growing Brain - Everyday Play Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Unit 7 Participant Manual
Course Description: Play builds children’s capabilities in all areas of development. Children benefit from free play, with no adult scaffolding and guided play. The adults goal is to support the child’s testing of ideas and coming up with their own solutions.  

CDA PHY.INT 2.D Child-Friendly, Family Friendly and Eco-Friendly Classrooms Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn the elements to a family-child friendly school and create a child-friendly classroom and “green” your classroom. The ability of a school to be and to call itself child-friendly is directly linked to the support, participation, and collaboration it receives from families. Child-friendly schools aim to develop a learning environment in which children are motivated and able to learn.

CDA PHY.INT 2.F The Skeletal System: What’s Inside of You! Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs 
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Engage children in active scientific exploration of the skeletal system by investigating how the rib cage protects our vital organs. Support scientific thinking and inquire by investigating, predicting, and exploring how our heart, lungs, and intestines work. Teach children to ask questions, write or draw in a journal, and report predictions to form a hypothesis.

CDA PHY.INT 2.C Preschool Coding & Robotics Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs 
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn how preschool coding and robotics activities enhance programming and engineering skills for children at an early age. When children are given age appropriate tools to incorporate in their daily learning activities, they become more engaged in open-ended play, expressive arts, cultural diverse activities, integration of technology skills, and math and language skills. Children will learn how to problem solve, explore cause and effect, and use sequencing skills to create robots through age appropriate coding and robotic activities.

CDA PHY.INT 2.F Electricity & Circuits: The Current Runs through it! Course Coming SOON!

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs 
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Prerequisite/s: None
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: COMING SOON

CDA SOC.EM 3.A The Growing Brain - Social- Emotional Development Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Unit 5 Participant Manual
Course Description:  Learn how the developing brain is affected by children's experiences and interactions with the important people in their lives. Explore how adults play a crucial role in supporting young children's social-emotional development and how early brain connections are experience dependent and last a lifetime.

CDA SOC.EM 3.B Classroom Transitions Course

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn the 3 main types of transitions: 1) Transitions between activities within a given setting, 2) Transitions between multiple settings on the same day, and 3) Transitions between programs. Learn numerous strategies that support smooth transitions between activities and implement strategies that provide verbal and nonverbal cues before transitions and minimize the number of transitions.

 CDA FAM 4.A Building a Professional Learning Community Course

 
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Create a professional learning community by recognizing appropriate learning community ideas, implementing clear communication between caregivers and parents, and organizing an early childcare facility environment to optimize productive spaces. Build relationships and allow for collaboration between teachers and parents. Learn how to work with the community and make strides to plan rigorous and appropriate lessons for students.

CDA FAM 4.B Parent Involvement: Positive Communication Course

 
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning  X Intermediate ☐ Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn about best practices to incorporate positive communication with all parents. Recognize the benefits of parent involvement, identify parent dynamics and learn how to support each and every parent, and develop a parent involvement plan. Establish a parenting plan with evidence of involvement, parent activities, resources, and timeline.

CDA FAM 4.C Building Stronger Relationships: Parental Involvement & Family Engagement Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning  X Intermediate ☐ Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn the fundamental concepts and techniques on enhancing parental involvement within the school community. Identify methods and techniques to address the dynamics of parents and managing generational differences within the school community. Apply strategies to embrace all students, parents, and families from diverse backgrounds, and recognize features of effective communication to keep all parents engaged.

CDA FAM 4.D Enhancing Communication Skills with Families Course
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Identify five benefits of parent involvement, ten effective forms of parent communication strategies and recognize three personality types of parents to enhance communication skills with all parents. Identify benefits of inclusion for all students with disabilities and implement strategies with parents and families.

CDA PROG.OP 5.B  Preventing Burnout in Child Care Providers Course

 3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: This training is designed to provide childcare providers with an understanding of what "Burnout" is. Strategies for dealing with stressors and burnout are addressed and how to prevent burnout and possible treatments. Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, adults may begin to lose interest or motivation that first led them to take on a certain role in the first place.

 CDA PROG.OP 5.D Cultural Diversity in Child Care Course
                     

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Support all children in their development and awareness of cultural differences. Understand the skills and empathy educators need to help children achieve a positive sense of themselves and of others. Protect and value all children in the classroom, foster empathy, and provide accurate information about differences to enable children to think critically about the challenge bias.

 CDA PROG.OP 5.G Understanding Every Child's Potential through Multiple Intelligence Course

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Stimulate every child’s potential through exploration of eight types of multiple intelligences. Apply activities in the classroom to accommodate all students learning styles, assess and evaluate students areas of intelligence, seek methods to strengthen each area, and design activities to accommodate all students varied learning styles. Reinforce students learning through an inclusive classroom and provide activities that teach through multiple intelligences.

CDA PROF 6.A  School Readiness: The Transition to Kindergarten Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: School readiness is a prevalent issue facing the nation today and mandated initiatives have placed rigorous demands on schools and educators. This training provides research-based knowledge and facts on kindergarten “the new first grade” with recommendations on how young children can experience a smoother transition to kindergarten. Learn what every public and private preschool and kindergarten teacher, leader, and parent should know about the rigorous transition to kindergarten, children’s school readiness, and best practices based on what schools are doing across the nation.

CDA PROF 6.B  Course Design: Below the Surface Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   ☐Intermediate   X Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Develop effective curriculum/training courses using the ADDIE Model of Instructional Design. The ADDIE process guides you through the five phases – Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.  A well-designed, well-intended, and well-presented training course engages learners and provides opportunities for learners to transfer learning into their workplace, thus, promoting teacher quality and improving student achievement.

CDA PROF 6.C The Fundamental Principles of Adult Learning Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   ☐Intermediate   X Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn the fundamental principles of Adult Learning based on Knowles andragogy. Learn the key components to understanding adult learning and engaging adults in learning for effective transfer of learning. Implement inclusive learning, accommodate cultural differences, and engage parents through Adult Learning Theory. Recognize and implement learning styles and instructional strategies using multiple intelligences to create an effective learning environment for learners.

CDA PROF 6.D PROF Staying on Target: Competency-based Objectives Course

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   ☐Intermediate   X Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Stay on target with competency-based objectives that provide learners with a clear understanding of the goal and purpose of the training content presented. The objective template provides an easy-to-use guide to design objectives that align with core competencies.  Core Competencies are a set of observable skills with Core Knowledge Areas that differ from state to state.

CDA PROF 6.H Vision to Action Plan: Supporting the School Improvement Plan Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   ☐Intermediate   xAdvanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Support the school or business improvement plan! Learn the fundamentals of creating an effective vision and mission statement in collaboration with all stakeholders.  Develop goals and objectives as a team and create unity in the work environment as you work on a plan of action to meet set goals.

CDA OB.REC 7.A The Growing Brain - Understanding Behavior Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs 
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Unit 6 Participant Manual
Course Description:  Explore how various areas of the brain are involved in young children's behavior communicating through networks shaped by children's experiences. As caregivers it is important to observe and try to understand the meaning of behaviors and respond in a sensitive, supportive, and nurturing fashion.

CDA OB.REC 7.B GUID What to do with Challenging Behavior Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning  X Intermediate  ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Learn the functions of children's behavior, ways to build positive relationships, how to design a supportive environment, and teaching strategies designed to decrease challenging behavior.

CDA OB.REC 7.C Anger Management - I Am So MAD! Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: What is ANGER? How do you deal with your anger? Learn the fundamental techniques to deal with anger in the classroom. Discover that anger is a temporary emotional state and aggression is often a prompt to hurt someone or destroy property. The goal is not to repress or destroy angry feelings in children–or in ourselves–but rather to accept the feelings and to help channel and direct them to constructive ends.

 CDA OB.REC 7.D Conflict Resolution Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Implement effective ways to help children resolve conflicts in the classroom through a variety of strategies. Children’s conflicts over toys, space, and friendships create many challenges for teachers and parents. Transform the childhood facility environment and establish clear communication between adult care providers and children in your care to minimize conflict.
CDA OB.REC 7.E Guidance versus Discipline in Child Care Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Children are not born with discipline. Explore children's’ developmental stages as they grow, develop, and learn self-control. Distinguish the difference between guidance and discipline from the classroom to home life and generate positive environments. Learn suggested interventions and adaptations to use in inclusive education for all students.

CDA OB.REC 7.H Observation Plan: What to do with Assessments Results Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning  X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Reinforce guiding principles that serve as a framework for assessing and evaluating instructional learning. Assess direct and indirect observations, identify four general categories of data used to provide information for instructional decisions, and report feedback to teachers using assessment results. Establish a successful adaptive inclusive classroom by using a variety of strategies in assessing students’ learning.

CDA OB.REC 7.J GUID Deployment: Coping Strategies for Children Course

2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Identify pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment stages to help rebuild security in children.
Identify the common signs of emotional stress in children, teach children skills to foster self-expression, and encourage children to identify their feelings. Learn about the four basic feelings and tips for teaching preschool children how to deal with anger and help children cope with stress.

CDA CHDV 8.A The Growing Brain: The Basics Course  

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs 
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Unit 1 Participant Manual
Course Description:  Learn about the parts of an infants brain and their functions. Explore how you can support healthy brain development by setting realistic expectations based on brain development, be aware that the experiences you provide are building brain architecture, and provide positive relationships and supportive enriching environments.

CDA CHDV 8.B The Growing Brain: The Factors Affecting Brain Growth and Development Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Unit 2 Participant Manual
Course Description:  Learn about how the brain is most plastic during early childhood, how the body's stress system is adaptive but needs an adult caregiver or may suffer damage, and how adult caregivers have a vital role to play in helping children regulate stress and build resilience. You will learn that factors affect brain growth and development and about the 5 R's (Relationships, Responsive Interactions, Respect, Routines, Repetition) for supporting healthy brain development.

CDA CHDV 8.C The Growing Brain: Communication and Language Development Course 

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training  
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential 
Course Materials: Unit 3 Participant Manual
Course Description: Learn how adults play a critical role in early communication through back-and-forth interaction, how communication begins with observation and how children build on language to develop more complex communication, including dual and multi language learning.

CDA CHDV 8.E  Early Childhood Language Development: Phonological Awareness Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description:Learn the fundamentals of speech and language milestones and phonological awareness activities to help build students’ language development. Increase your knowledge on implementing effective strategies for teaching students who are limited in their limited english proficiency (L.E.P). Maximize your knowledge on storytelling and curriculum planning, reading with a purpose, reading readiness, reading methods and models appropriate for preschool children.

CDA CHDV 8.F  Child Development: Infant, Toddler, Preschool Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Early childhood development is the foundation for community development and economic development. Learn the foundational aspects of growth and brain development that takes place during the first years of life, Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, and social-emotional milestones.

CDA CHDV 8.G Ages and Stages of Development Course

3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning   X Intermediate   ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training 
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals seeking CDA Credential
Course Materials: Self-study Guide/PPT
Course Description: Understand what is taking place in a child’s brain and body during each period of development. Provide the necessary support, encouragement, structure, and interventions to enable a child to progress through each stage of development as easily and successfully as possible based on each child’s unique set of traits and interests.