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CLICK HERE The Growing Brain Courses (7 Units)
IL Unit 1: The Growing Brain - The Basics NOW AVAILABLE!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Target Audience: Teaching Professionals
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.
IL Unit 2: The Growing Brain - The Factors Affecting Brain Growth and Development NOW AVAILABLE!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Target Audience: Parents, Teachers and other Caregivers
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.
IL Unit 3: The Growing Brain - Communication and Language Development NOW AVAILABLE!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Target Audience:Parents, Teachers and other Caregivers
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.
IL Unit 4: The Growing Brain - Cognitive and Executive Function NOW AVAILABLE!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Target Audience: Parents, Teachers and other Caregivers
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.
IL Unit 5: The Growing Brain - Social- Emotional Development Coming Soon!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Target Audience: Parents, Teachers and other Caregivers
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.
IL Unit 6: The Growing Brain - Understanding Behavior Coming Soon!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Target Audience: Parents, Teachers and other Caregivers
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.
IL Unit 7: The Growing Brain - Everyday Play Coming Soon!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Target Audience: Parents, Teachers and other Caregivers
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.
CLICK HERE Content Area A: Human Growth & Development
IL 1.A Child Development: Infant, Toddler, Preschool Course
CDA Content Area:
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
Target audience: Child care providers.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 1.B Early Childhood Language Development: Phonological Awareness Course 
CDA Content Area:
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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 language 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.
IL 1.C Understanding Every Child's Potential through Multiple Intelligence Course
CDA Content Area: 3-Social-Emotional
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Understanding every child's potential through multiple intelligences is important as each child has varying interests. As teachers get to know their students over time, teachers are learning about the child's abilities and what the child is doing well. 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 about multiple intelligences.
IL 1.D Sign Language and Child Care Course
CDA Content Area: 2-Physical/Intellectual
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: This training represents the benefits of signing to infants and toddlers to bridge the communication gap, stimulate, psychological and emotional growth and development. Discover signing to bridge the gap between young children who cannot speak, stimulating psychological and emotional growth and development. Recognize the benefits of sign language and how to teach it to children, implement sign language skills between adult care providers, and organize an early childcare facility environment to maximize the use of sign language.
IL 1.E Child Care Centers and the Americans Disabilities Act (ADA) Course
CDA Content Area: 3-Social-Emotional
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Know your Rights! The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law. Explore the ADA Act that states people with disabilities are entitled to equal rights in employment, state and local public services, and public accommodations such as preschools, child care centers, and family child care homes.
IL 1.F The Importance of Play in Child Care Course
CDA Content Area: 3-Social-Emotional
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Recognize the various types of play, benefits of play among children, and organize an early childcare facility environment to maximize play. PLAY IS IMPORTANT for children’s development and for children to bond. It offers opportunities to connect with a child. Play helps a child learn rules and what is expected of him or her. As children grow, play helps them learn how to act in society.
IL 1.G Ages and Stages of Development Course
CDA Content Area: 8-Child Development
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 1.H Developmentally Appropriate Practices Course 
CDA Content Area: 8- Child Development
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Establish a foundation of effective decision-making based a child’s development, taking into consideration individual learning differences and social and cultural influences. Explore developmental stages of children birth to 6 years old, implement skills using different learning styles, and organize your center according to the developmental stages of children in your care.
IL 1.I The Happiest Baby in the Center Course 
CDA Content Area: 8-Child Development
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Learn the fundamental concepts of keeping a baby happy. Use the 5 S’; swaddling, side/stomach, shushing, swinging, and sucking to calm a baby and identify behaviors to keeping a baby happy while in your care.
IL 1.J What you need to know about Autism Course
CDA Content Area: 8-Child Development
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Learn the fundamental aspects of Autism, identify Signs and Symptoms of Autism and implement policies that include but not limited to Autism. Research has shown that there is no one cause of autism just as there is no one type of autism. Understand the early signs and symptoms of autism and adverse behaviors that vary widely.
CLICK HERE Content Area B: Health, Safety & Well-Being
IL 2.A Health, Nutrition, & Safety: Obesity Awareness (Part 1) Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Safety
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 2.B Health, Nutrition, & Safety: Obesity Awareness (Part 2) Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Safety
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Childhood obesity puts kids at risk for health problems that were once seen only in adults, like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. The good news? Childhood obesity can be prevented. Communities, health professionals, and families can work together to create opportunities for kids to eat healthier and move more.
IL 2.C Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect Course
CDA Content Area: 3-Social-Emotional
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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, and indicators, and responding to, and reporting a disclosure.
IL 2.D Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Safety
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Protect children while in their care and create a safer environment for infants to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Learn to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in child care by creating safer sleep environments for babies. Caregivers will define SIDS, identify safe sleep practices, state ways to lower SIDS risks in child care settings and Identify SIDS-related resources. Learn about Tummy Time, handling a medical emergency SIDS - related resources, spread the Word - Ways you can share information on SIDS with parents and other caregivers.
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IL 2.D1 (SIDS - Spanish) Síndrome De Muerte Súbita Infantil Course
CDA Content Area:
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: El objetivo es crear un entorno más seguro para los niños ayudar a el síndrome de muerte súbita del lactante (SMSL). Aprender a reducir el riesgo de muerte súbita del lactante (SMSL) en cuidado de niños mediante la creación de entornos más seguras de dormir para bebés. Cuidadores se define SID, identificar prácticas de sueño seguro, formas de reducir los riesgos del SIDS en entornos de atención de niños y recursos relacionados con el SIDS identificar del estado. Conocer tiempo de barriga, manejo un SIDS emergencia médica - recursos relacionados, corra la voz - de maneras que usted puede compartir información sobre SID con los padres y otros cuidadores.
IL 2.E Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning from Natural and Man-Made Events Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Safety
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 2.E1 Preparación de emergencia y planificación de respuesta de un evento natural o artificial (SPANISH) Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Safety
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Conozca las pautas recomendadas para el cuidado de niños para la preparación de emergencias y la planificación de respuesta ante desastres naturales o eventos creados por el hombre. Todos los procedimientos operativos de emergencia (EOP) de la escuela deben incluir cursos de acción que describan cómo los estudiantes y el personal pueden responder de manera más efectiva a situaciones de emergencia para minimizar la pérdida de vidas. Defina la mitigación en relación con el manejo de emergencias y enséñele a los niños a ser resilientes durante situaciones de emergencia. Desarrolle una lista de verificación de preparación para emergencias, prepare un kit de emergencia e identifique un área de respuesta y recuperación para todos los niños.
IL 2.F Dispensing Medication in Child Care Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Safety
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: As providers for these children, you play an important role in their development, nurturing, health, and safety. Some children in your child care setting may need to take medications during the hours you provide care for them.
IL 2.G Fire Safety, Nutrition and Health Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Well-Being
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Prevention and planning is key to protecting children and yourself. Recognize fire safety rules, nutrition, and health rules, Implement clear communication skills, and organize an early childcare facility environment to minimize fire danger and promote healthy nutrition.
IL 2.H Healthy Eating in Child Care Course
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Well-Being
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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, handwashing, special diets and food allergies.
IL 2.I What You Need To Know About Shaken Baby Syndrome Course
CDA Content Area: 1- Health & Well-Being
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Identify signs and symptoms of Shaken Baby Syndrome and implement policies that include, but not limited to Shaken Baby Syndrome and Child Abuse. Shaken baby syndrome (SBS)— also known as abusive head trauma, shaken impact syndrome, inflicted head injury or whiplash shake syndrome — is a serious brain injury resulting from forcefully shaking an infant or toddler. Learn the causes of Shaken baby syndrome and how it destroys a child’s brain cells and prevents his or her brain from getting enough oxygen.
IL 2.J Building and Physical Premises Safety including Storage of Bio-Contaminants and Hazardous Materials Course
CDA Content Area:
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 2.J1 Construcción y seguridad de las instalaciones físicas, incluido el almacenamiento de biocontaminantes y materiales peligrosos Course
CDA Content Area:
Developmental Domain:
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Esté preparado para implementar estándares de seguridad, pautas y prácticas relacionadas con la construcción y la seguridad de las instalaciones físicas en el entorno de cuidado infantil temprano. La información incluye la salud ambiental, factores ambientales potencialmente peligrosos, incluyendo plantas, insectos y humos tóxicos, y procedimientos seguros y apropiados para garantizar juguetes apropiados para la edad de los niños de diferentes grupos de edad y niveles de desarrollo. También se discute el almacenamiento de biocontaminantes y materiales peligrosos. Nota: Siempre siga las regulaciones de licencia para su estado, ya que pueden variar de un estado a otro.
**IL 2.K Transportation Safety in the Child Care Environment Course
CDA Content Area:
1 Clock Hours/0.1 CEU
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $10
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
CLICK HERE Content Area C: Observation & Assessment
IL 3.A Observation Plan: What to do with Assessment Results Course
CDA Content Area: 5-Program Management
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
CLICK HERE Content Area D: Curriculum or Program Design
IL 4.A Supervision of Curriculum and Instruction Course
CDA Content Area: 5-Program Management
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: The curriculum is a roadmap for learning with a focus on knowledge and skills. Learn the historical foundations of curriculum and instruction that provide an understanding of what supervisors observe during classroom evaluations. Explore the predominant themes about the supervision and evaluation of instruction, supervision and evaluation issues, and current trends. Examine teacher evaluation methods to enhance the professional effectiveness of teaching staff and assess student progress to ensure teachers are utilizing information from a variety of appropriate sources.
IL 4.B School Readiness: The Transition to Kindergarten Course
CDA Content Area: 2 Physical/Intellectual
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 4.C Vision to Action Plan: Supporting the School Improvement Plan Course
CDA Content Area: 7-Observing/Recording Behavior
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials:Self-study Guide
Course Description: Participants will learn how to write a vision and mission statement, plan opportunities for collaboration, develop goals and objectives, create an evaluation plan, a professional growth plan, and develop an action plan. A guidebook is available to use with this training.
CLICK HERE Content Area E: Interactions, Relationships and Environments
IL 5.A Preventing Burnout in Child Care Providers Course
CDA Content Area: 3-Social-Emotional
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 5.B Cultural Diversity in Child Care Course
CDA Content Area: 3-Social-Emotional
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 5.C What to do with Challenging Behavior Course
CDA Content Area: 3- Social-Emotional
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Learn functions of children's' behavior, ways to build positive relationships, how to design a supportive environment, and teaching strategies designed to decrease challenging behavior.
IL 5.D Deployment: Coping Strategies for Children Course
CDA Content Area: 3- Social-Emotional
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 5.E Anger Management - I Am So MAD! Course 
CDA Content Area: 3- Social-Emotional
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 5.F Conflict Resolution Course
CDA Content Area: 3- Social-Emotional
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 5.G Children and Domestic Violence Course
CDA Content Area:1- Health & Well-Being
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Recognize what domestic violence is and how it affects children by implementing clear communication skills between adult care providers and children. Organize an early childcare facility environment to minimize issues with children and domestic violence.
IL 5.H Guidance versus Discipline in Child Care Course 
CDA Content Area: 1-Health & Well-Being
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 5.I What do you do with a Bully? Course
CDA Content Area: 1- Health & Well-Being
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Bullying is one of the most concerning social interactions facing children and schools today. While the media picks up stories of bullying in high school, researchers have shown that bullying behaviors are learned much earlier in life. Learn to identify the signs of bullying, as well as the short and long-term effects these behaviors can have on bullies and their victims. Explore strategies for guiding young children through socially challenging scenarios to create a “bully-free” classroom.
IL 5.J Classroom Transitions Course
CDA Content Area: 3- Social-Emotional
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: This training provides strategies to prepare students for effective classroom transitions. Learn about classroom transitions that prevent disruptively and produce unproductive instructional time.
IL 5.K Child-Friendly, Family Friendly and Eco-Friendly Classrooms Course
CDA Content Area: 1 Health & Well-Being
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Creating a child-friendly classroom and greening your classroom doesn’t have to happen all at once, and the tips in this training are just a few of the things teachers can do to make their classrooms more eco-friendly and child-friendly. If you start small, kids can pick up on those little habits and grow into their own uniquely eco-friendly selves!
IL 5.L Enhancing your Learning Community Course
CDA Content Area: 3-Social-Emotional
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Course Description: Allowing adequate time and opportunities for the development of respectful and trusting relationships between children, families and childcare providers and the staff is one of the most crucial factors to successfully settling children into childcare. This training will give you information about supporting families, create curriculum, healthy environments communication and inclusion.
CLICK HERE Content Area F: Family and Community Relationships
IL 6.A Parent Involvement: Positive Communication Course
CDA Content Area: 4-Parental Relationships
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 6.B Enhancing Communication Skills with Families Course
CDA Content Area: 4-Parental Relationships
2 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: Learn the value of supporting families, creating curriculum, healthy environments, communication, and inclusion. Allowing adequate time and opportunities for the development of respectful and trusting relationships between children, families and childcare providers and the staff is one of the most crucial factors to successfully settling children into childcare.
*IL 6.C Building Stronger Relationships: Parental Involvement & Family Engagement Course
CDA Content Area: 4-Parental Relationships
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
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IL 7.A The Fundamental Principles of Adult Learning Course
CDA Content Area: 5-Program Management
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience is course designers and trainers.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
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.
IL 7.B Why do I need to get my CDA? Preparing for a Child Development Associate Course
CDA Content Area: 5-Program Management
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s:
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Self-study Guide
Course Description: The Child Development Associate (CDA) is the most recognized credential in early childhood education and provides a major step to your future career in early childhood. The assessment is divided into five parts. The written exam, oral interview, verification visit, parent opinion questionnaire and review of your professional resource file.