MINNESOTA COURSES
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Minnesota Child Care Center Licensing
MINNESOTA’S KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONALS
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CLICK HERE MN Content Area I: Child Development and Learning
MN CA1.A Child Development: Infant, Toddler, Preschool Course 
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.
The target audience for this course is child care providers.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.
**MN CA.1B Early Childhood Language Development: Phonological Awareness Course 
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.
The target audience for this course is child care providers.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.
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MN CA2.B The Importance of Play Course 
☐ Level 1: Explores
X Level 2: Implements
☐ Level 3: Designs and Leads
CDA Content Area 2: Steps to advance children's physical and intellectual development
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who provide opportunities for children to learn about themselves, their families, and languages through play.
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. Assist children to play, evaluate, reflect on, revisit, and build on their own experiences. Provide opportunities for children to learn about themselves, their families, and languages through play. 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.
$15.00Add to cart
CLICK HERE MN Content Area II: Developmentally Appropriate Learning Practices
MN CA 2.A 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
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: 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.
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MN CA 2.B Preschool Coding & Robotics Course
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
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: 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.
MN CA 2.C Prehistoric Age: Dinosaurs Course COMING SOON!
3 Clock Hours/0.3 CEUs
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
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: Learn about the prehistoric age; Triassic Period, Jurassic Period, and Cretaceous Period, the different types of fossils; Petrified fossils, Mold fossils, Cast fossils, Carbon films, Preserved remains, Trace fossils, and the continents where fossils were found! Teach students about the prehistoric days through scientific thinking, predictions, experiments, math, language, fine motor and sensory skills!
CLICK HERE MN Content Area III: Relationships with Families
MN3.A Building Stronger Relationships: Parental Involvement & Family Engagement Course
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning ☐ Intermediate X Advanced
3 Clock Hours, Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $15
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
The target audience for this course is Childcare Providers and Administrators
Course Materials: S/Internet Access/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.
$15.00Add to cart
CLICK HERE MN Content Area IV: Assessment, Evaluation and Individualization
CLICK HERE MN Content Area V: Historical & Contemporary Development of Early Childhood Education
CLICK HERE MN Content Area VI: Professionalism
MN CA6.A The Fundamental Principles of Adult Learning Course
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.
The target audience is course designers and trainers.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.
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MN CA6.B Staying on Target: Competency-based Objectives Course
☐ Level 1: Explores
☐ Level 2: Implements
X Level 3: Designs and Leads
CDA Content Area 6: Maintaining a commitment to professionalism
Course Fees $12
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who prioritize professional development activities and align competency-based objectives with training content.
Course Materials: Self-Study Guide
Course Description:Prioritize professional development activities and align 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.
$12.00Add to cart
CLICK HERE MN Content Area VII: Health, Safety, and Nutrition
MN CA7.A Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning from Natural and Man-Made Events Course
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.
$12.00Add to cart
MN CA7.B Building and Physical Premises Safety including Storage of Bio-Contaminants and Hazardous Materials Course - Coming Soon!
Developmental Domain:
☐Beginning X Intermediate ☐Advanced
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.
MN CA7.C Health, Nutrition, & Safety: Obesity Awareness (Part 1) Course Coming Soon!
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.
MN CA7.D Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect Course Coming Soon!
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.
MN CA7.E Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Course Coming Soon!
2 Clock Hours/0.2 CEUs
Online/Self-paced Training
Course Fees $12
Prerequisite/s: This course is for childcare providers who work with children in a child care setting.
The target audience for this course is child care providers and administrators.
Course Materials: Computer/Internet Access/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.