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Active Learning in Early Childhood
This course is written by well known author and national trainer, Rae Pica. The course is designed to increase the participant’s knowledge of the ways in which movement and active involvement can be used as tools to explore and understand concepts falling under the content areas of art, language arts, mathematics, music, science, and social studies.
Assessing Young Children: Part 2 – Methods of Assessment
This is the second of a three-part series dealing with the assessment of young children. Participants will examine six methods for assessing young children and discover how to successfully apply these techniques to the early childhood classroom. Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to list six methods for assessing young children, create a developmental checklist, conduct successful parent interviews, use self-portraits as an assessment tool, include scribbling, drawing, and writing samples in assessment practices and keep helpful anecdotal records on children.
Assessing Young Children: Part 3 – Interpreting Data and Improving Practices
This is the third in a three-part series dealing with the assessment of young children. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will gain an understanding of how to interpret assessment data. In addition, participants will be familiar with NAEYC’s indicators of effectiveness," which are useful in evaluating the success or quality of a school’s assessment system.
Brain Development and the Effects of Early Deprivation
This course examines the effects of early childhood deprivation, maltreatment and abuse on brain development.
Budgeting Basics for Directors: Part II
Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to identify strategies and practices for developing an operating budget, including how to calculate full-time enrollment, salary schedules, and tuition rates and fees.
Building Literacy Through Nursery Rhymes and Children’s Poetry
This course explores the use of nursery rhymes and children’s poetry as learning tools in the Early Care and Education (ECE) environment. Course participants will learn why rhymes and poems are good for the brain and overall child development and techniques for using poetry in the ECE environment. This course also focuses on teaching a basic understanding of poetic forms and literary devices every ECE professional should know.
CentrÁndose en el Juego Expresivo y Desarrollo ArtÍstico
Este curso se centra en la importancia que las diversas formas de juego tienen en el desarrollo integral del niño, con énfasis en el juego expresivo, que se puede incorporar a lo largo de la mayor parte de las actividades en el entorno de la primera infancia. Debido a que el dibujo es un elemento importante de la obra expresiva, este curso explora el desarrollo tÍpico de habilidades de dibujo en los niños y cómo esas capacidades estÁn relacionadas con otras Áreas de desarrollo. Con una mejor comprensión de las necesidades expresivas de juego de los niños pequeños, los profesionales de la primera infancia pueden apoyar el desarrollo óptimo y sano de los niños en todas las Áreas del desarrollo.
Character Education in the School-Age Child Care Environment
This course explores the importance of character education in schools and out-of-school programs, focusing on environments for school-age children and adolescents.
Conflict Resolution in the Early Childhood Environment
This course offers strategies and practices for addressing and resolving a wide variety of social, emotional, and behavioral conflicts likely to arise in the early childhood environment.
Constructivist Learning Theory and Approaches to Hands-On Learning
This course features examination of hands-on learning in the context of constructivist learning theory, including the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner and the teaching methods established by Maria Montessori and the Reggio Emilia community.
Critical Thinking Skills in the Preschool Environment
Critical thinking skills are essential for good decision-making and long-term academic and professional success. This course examines critical thinking skills through the lens of Bloom’s Taxonomy, which categorizes the different ways humans interact with knowledge. Participants will explore basic, practical classroom strategies that support the development of critical thinking skills in young children.
Desarrollando el Liderazgo en la Educación y el Cuidado Temprano
Este curso examina lo que significa ser un lÍder exitoso en el campo del cuidado y la educación infantil (ECE), y también incluye el tiempo después de la escuela o la atención fuera del horario escolar. Si bien hay ciertas cualidades universales de cualquier buen lÍder, independientemente de la profesión, los lÍderes en la industria de ECE enfrentan algunos retos únicos y responsabilidades que no estÁn cubiertos en tÍpicos libros de liderazgo corporativo y seminarios. Algunas de las destrezas y conocimientos le vienen fÁcilmente a algunas personas, otros necesitan tiempo y prÁctica constante, pero todo el mundo en una posición de liderazgo en la industria de ECE tiene que reflexionar seriamente sobre la naturaleza exacta de sus funciones y responsabilidades, y lo que se necesita con el fin de tener éxito. Este curso estÁ destinado para ayudar a los lÍderes emergentes a desarrollar esas habilidades y conocimientos, asÍ como para ayudar a los que entrenan a otros para posiciones de liderazgo.
Developing Leadership in Early Care and Education
This course examines what it means to be a successful leader in the field of early care and education (ECE) which includes afterschool or out-of-school-time care. While there are certain universal qualities to any good leader, regardless of profession, leaders in the ECE industry face some unique challenges and responsibilities that are not covered in typical corporate leadership books and seminars.
Dual Language Learning in the Early Childhood Environment
This course provides early childhood professionals with strategies and tools for helping young children develop language and early literacy skills in English as well as the children’s home language. Participants will learn the benefits of ?dual language? learning for young children along with key strategies for increasing family engagement and promoting rich, dual language development in the classroom.
Effective Class Meetings in Early Childhood
This course explores the developmentally appropriate use of class meetings in early learning environments. During the course participants will discover how class meetings can be used to create a sense of community, strengthen social/emotional development, and reinforce important cognitive skills. The course will introduce a number of best practices for holding class meetings as well as the skills and topics that should be incorporated into class meeting agendas.
El Aprendizaje de Dos Idiomas en el Entorno de Cuidado Infantil
Este curso proporciona a los profesionales de la primera infancia con estrategias y herramientas para ayudar a los niños pequeños a desarrollar habilidades de lenguaje y alfabetización temprana en inglés, asÍ como el idioma materno de los niños. Los participantes aprenderÁn los beneficios del aprendizaje de “doble lenguaje” para niños pequeños, junto con las estrategias claves para aumentar la participación de las familias y promover el desarrollo del lenguaje en el aula.
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Individual or block hours
Students may purchase one hour of child care online coursework or multiple hours at a time.
- 1-10 Hours: $15 per hour
- 11-49 Hours: $12 per hour
- 50 Hour Block: $450
- 125 Hour Block: $999
- 225 Hour Block: $1,499
Individual Annual Subscription
For $99, a child care professional can purchase an Individual Annual Professional Development Subscription. The subscription allows unlimited access to CCEI’s professional development course catalog for the year of the subscription.
Child Care Center-Based Subscription
The Child Care Center-Based Annual Subscription is the most manageable, accessible and cost-effective method for a center to provide its staff with training to meet annual licensing professional development needs. CCEI offers two child care center-based subscriptions:
$499/year
20-user$999/year
50-user