OKLAHOMA COURSES
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Oklahoma Child Care Rules & Regulations
OKLAHOMA CORE COMPETENCIES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD PRACTITIONERS
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CLICK HERE OK THE GROWING BRAIN - 7 UNITS
OK Unit 1: The Growing Brain - The Basics Coming Soon!
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.
OK Unit 2: The Growing Brain - The Factors Affecting Brain Growth and 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 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.
OK Unit 3: The Growing Brain - Communication and Language 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 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.
OK Unit 4: The Growing Brain - Cognitive and Executive Function 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 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.
OK 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.
OK 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.
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 OK Content Area I: Child Growth and Development
OK CA1.A Child Development: Infant, Toddler, Preschool
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: 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.
OK CA.1B Early Childhood Language Development: Phonological Awareness 
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.
CLICK HERE OK Content Area II: Health, Safety and Nutrition
OK CA2.A Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning from Natural and Man-Made Events - New!
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.
OK CA2.B Building and Physical Premises Safety including Storage of Bio-Contaminants and Hazardous Materials - New!
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.
OK CA2.C Health, Nutrition, & Safety: Obesity Awareness (Part 1)
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.
OK CA2.D Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect
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.
OK CA2.E Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
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.
CLICK HERE OK Content Area III: Child Observation and Assessment
CLICK HERE OK Content Area IV: Family and Community Partnerships
OK CA4.A Building Stronger Relationships: Parental Involvement & Family Engagement
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.
CLICK HERE OK Content Area V: Learning Environments and Curriculum
CLICK HERE OK Content Area VI: Interactions with Children
OK Content Area VII: Program Planning, Development and Evaluation
OK Content Area VIII: Professionalism and Leadership
OK CA8.A The Fundamental Principles of Adult Learning
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.
CERTIFICATES
Certificates are available immediately after passing the quiz for each respective course. You can view and print certificates from the completed courses section of your account.