Welcome
to the ChildCare Education
Institute July Newsletter!
This month, CCEI Discusses Indoor Safety!
Ensuring safety is the primary job responsibility for early childhood professionals. Other aspects of the job may seem more interesting, but none are more important! If there is one thing that all child care professionals have in common, it's the fact that everyone has a desire to keep children safe. Unfortunately, the desire is not enough to prevent accidents. If it were, hundreds of children would not die every month and thousands more would not be seriously injured in homes and child care centers across the U.S.
Although most childhood accidents occur outdoors (mainly due to falls on playgrounds), there are many more potential hazards indoors. So, how do you help ensure safety inside your center? Here are some basic tips:
1) Familiarize yourself with the risks within specific areas, including:
- Classrooms
- High foot-traffic areas
- Food service areas
- Stairwells
- Restrooms
- Storage areas
Seek advice from local agencies, like the health department or rescue squad. Performing a walkthrough of your facility with a safety expert could open your eyes to risks you may have overlooked.
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| Choking Hazards
Published by: U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Some foods are easy for your preschooler to choke on when swallowing them.
These include foods that are round and about the size of the throat-about the size of a nickel. Prevent choking by avoiding these foods or cutting them in small pieces-no larger than one-half inch (½").
Foods that may be choking hazards:
Peanuts
Round slices of hot dogs or
sausages
Whole grapes
Chewing
Gum
Carrot sticks or baby
carrots
Cherry
tomatoes
Popcorn
Tough meat
Chips
Hard
candy
Vegetables Large pieces of raw fruits
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Poison Proof Your Family Day Care Home
By: Polly Spedding, M.S.
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As a family day care provider, you have many responsibilities.
A big part of your job is keeping the children in your care safe.
Children can be injured in many ways. One threat to young children
is poisoning. Take time now to make sure that your home is poison
proof.
We all know that young children will eat and drink almost anything.
Most of us have medicines, sprays, and cleaning products around
the house that could cause accidental poisoning. Here's a checklist
to help you reduce this risk:
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CCEI Offers No-Cost Professional
Development Classes in Honor of National Make a Difference for Children Month
National Make a Difference for Children Month was started in 2000 by the Hugs and Hope Foundation with the goal of nurturing children and supporting their families during challenging times. In support of this, child care teachers and staff can choose 3 hours of coursework, available in English and Spanish, from the CCEI online professional development library to help them 'make a difference in a child's life'. Each completed hour of coursework is awarded 0.1 IACET CEUs and may be eligible for college credit articulation.
Registering for this great opportunity is easy. Log in to CCEI's learning management system at www.cceionline.edu, during the month of July, and use promotion code 070810 when prompted.
Click here for detailed registration instructions.
New CCEI Radio! "Handling
Inappropriate Sexual Behavior"
| This month, CCEI Radio features Rae Pica, Pat Beck, Kevin Alderson and Dr. Meg Meeker discussing how teachers and parents can address sexual
behavior in children. For children to develop in a healthy and natural
environment, parents must establish themselves as trusted advisors. In turn,
teachers must support the guidelines of their school and communicate those
guidelines openly and frequently with parents. Appropriate and inappropriate behaviors are discussed.
Log on to www.cceionline.edu today to learn practical strategies for handling appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in the classroom, as well as tips for how child care providers can partner with parents to best serve their students.
Join CCEI's Online Learning Community!
CCEI's Online Learning Community is a communication forum that allows child care providers to share information and discuss topics pertinent to child care. Each month, CCEI initiates a discussion on a relevant topic such as curriculum, classroom management, child development, health and nutrition, etc. Participants interact by posting comments and feedback for others to review and respond to.
Join the CCEI Online Learning Community today! To view posts and for details on how to join, visit www.cceionline.edu and click the link to the "Online Learning Community" in the upper right-hand corner. There is no cost to join.
Did You Know?
- CCEI has graduated over 3,000 students from certificate programs.
- Students have completed over 321,000 CCEI online professional development courses.
- In exit surveys, 98% of CCEI students say that they achieved the objectives they set out with when taking CCEI coursework.
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Linda Collins
Oneonta, New York
Congratulations to Linda Collins for completing the
CCEI
Online Self Study CDA Certificate program of study and being awarded her CDA Credential from the Council of Professional Recognition!
Linda launched her career as an
Assistant Teacher after volunteering for many years at her children's Head
Start center. She enjoys when her students ask her to play and happily shares
her pet turtles, ducks and fish with the class. Even more rewarding is her
ability to see the children's intellectual and social growth. Knowing she's a
part of guiding this growth is infinitely rewarding. Linda sees her position as
an opportunity to give back to the community in return for what her children
gained as students of the center. She hopes to continue teaching for many years
to come.
When not working, Linda enjoys
gardening and working on house projects with her husband and four children.
Currently, they're in the process of building a chicken coop. |
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Annual, Unlimited Professional Development Subscriptions, Only $99!
CCEI offers over 100 online, IACET CEU awarded professional development courses that meet continuing education requirements. CCEI has course offerings in English and Spanish and courses are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year from any computer with Internet access. | CCEI has articulation agreements with Ashford University and Concordia University that give CCEI students the opportunity to articulate completed CCEI coursework for credit into their early childhood degree programs. For more information, visit the Partner section of the CCEI website.
Center-Based Subscriptions
Directors: Center-Based Subscriptions are a great way to manage and administer continuing education for your staff. CCEI's Center-Based Subscriptions, available for 20 and 50 users, allow you to provide training for as little as $20 per teacher for the entire year!
For more information, contact Admissions at 800.499.9907 or click here to enroll online. |
 | Complete CDA Coursework Online with CCEI!
CCEI's Online CDA Certificate programs meet the clock-hour training requirement of The Council for Professional Recognition, which is needed in order to apply for the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. CCEI's CDA Certificate programs focus on the six CDA Competency Standards established by The Council and contain the required hours in each of the eight specified content areas. Each hour of completed coursework is awarded 0.1 IACET CEU.
CCEI offers three CDA programs. The CCEI Online Self Study CDA is designed for students who are comfortable with an online learning environment and can successfully complete work independently. The Online Instructor Supported CDA Certificate, available in English and Spanish, provides students with extra support from a CCEI Education Coach (EC). Each EC is an early childhood specialist with previous experience working in a child care center or school. Students seeking college credit should enroll in the College Credit Eligible CDA Certificate program for the opportunity to earn credits at Kendall College.
Online Director's CertificateCCEI offers an Online Director's Certificate that provides professional development for early childhood professionals seeking to further their skills and knowledge in the management of a child care center. The program is composed of nine instructional units that focus on the core areas of competency required to manage a child care center. Each student in the Online Director's Certificate receives support from an Education Coach. Click here to enroll online. | |
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