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Government Regulations and Inspection Readiness |
1.25 |
Upon completing this course, you'll identify general topics of laws and the enforcing agencies. You'll define inspection readiness and its relation to animal care staff responsibilities, understand USDA inspection standards under the Animal Welfare Act, and recognize and record violations. You'll also understand OSHA inspection standards and recognize Occupational Safety and Health violations. |
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Grammar |
1.50 |
Grammar is an essential part of any work environment. However, it can come with many different eccentricities. In this course, you will learn how to avoid common grammar mistakes in both your personal and professional writing. |
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Grammar Skills: Agreement Rules |
0.75 |
This course covers how to correctly apply the subject-verb agreement rule. You will also learn how to create sentences that have parallel structure. |
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Grammar Skills: Effective Sentences |
1.00 |
This course covers how to identify the elements of a well-written sentence and how to define and correctly use phrases and clauses. You will also learn how to classify sentences as simple, compound, or complex. |
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Grammar Skills: Improving Sentence Structure |
0.50 |
This course covers how to create complete sentences by recognizing and fixing sentence fragments as well as how to streamline your writing by avoiding run-on sentences. You will learn how to clarify sentences by using active voice rather than passive voice and write effective sentences by avoiding split infinitives. |
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Grammar Skills: Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections |
0.75 |
This course covers how to define and use prepositions and prepositional phrases. You will also learn how to connect clauses by using conjunctions and how to add emotion by using interjections. |
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Grammar Skills: Pronouns, Adjectives, and Adverbs |
1.00 |
This course covers how to define pronouns and use them to reduce repetitive words. You will also learn how to discuss the roles of adjectives and adverbs, and identify their various forms. |
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Grammar Skills: Punctuation and Mechanics |
1.00 |
This course covers how to punctuate clauses in sentences by using commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes as well as how to set phrases apart by using parentheses and brackets; correctly use apostrophes and hyphens. You will also learn how to use quotation marks and end punctuation; identify when to spell out numbers, money, and dates as well how to correctly capitalize words in sentences. |
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Grammar Skills: Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms |
0.25 |
This course covers how to differentiate between synonyms and antonyms. You will also learn how to use homonyms and recognize the differences between various homonyms. |
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Grammar Skills: The Importance of Grammar |
1.00 |
This course will cover how to define grammar and discuss its importance. You will also learn how to identify and correctly use different forms of nouns and verbs. |
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Grammar Skills: Word Choice |
1.00 |
This course covers how to choose the appropriate words for clear communication and how to recognize and use frequently misused words correctly. You will also learn how to avoid common spelling errors and correctly attach prefixes and suffixes to words. |
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Great Apes |
3.00 |
This collection of 3 courses explores the natural history and conservation of the great apes and covers a bit about primates and how the apes fit into this larger group of animals. |
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Ground Cover Fires |
1.50 |
This course is an introductory level course that introduces the basic concepts of fighting fires that involve natural ground cover. This course describes fire behaviors associated with ground cover fires, identifies the types of equipment as well as methods used to combat these fires. The lesson also identifies specific hazards associated with ground cover fires and describes methods for mitigating the risk of those hazards. |
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Ground Ladder Competency (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
This is the Instructor Guide for Ground Ladder Competency. This competency evaluates the ability of assigned companies to perform ground ladder tasks including carrying, raise, climb, and rescue. This competency may also be conducted as an independent drill or evolution. This competency is based on the Paxton Drill, a drill developed to improve ground ladder skills following the Paxton Hotel fire that killed fifteen people in Chicago Illinois on March 16, 1993. |
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Ground Ladder Skills Practice #1302 (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
This is the Instructor Guide for Lesson #1302 Ground Ladder Skills Practice. This Instructor Guide is intended to prepare a lead instructor to deliver this course curriculum. Included in this guide is a review of lesson content, instructions for conducting the lesson skill activity and all required lesson materials. The lead instructor must pass this instructor guide course with a minimum score of 80% to receive the course materials for this lesson. |
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Growing as a Professional in School-Age Programs |
2.00 |
Caring for school-age children in a school-age program is a relatively new field of work. The field itself is constantly changing and expanding. In view of this "newness" and change, those who work in the field are playing an important role in shaping and defining what it means to be a school-age professional. They are guiding school-age care as an emerging profession. In the search for a definition of professionalism in school-age programs, it is helpful to examine the common characteristics of professionalism in other fields. The next step is identifying qualities and characteristics associated with professional behavior in the school-age field, itself. As a school-age professional, it is also important to understand the importance of acting as a public policy advocate on behalf of school-age children and their families. An important part of professionalism is continued personal growth and development in relation to the field. This requires using appropriate resources and strategies to further individual professional development. It also requires considering what constitutes ethical conduct in the field and developing an ongoing commitment to ethical behavior. |
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Growing as a Professional in School-Age Programs (Collection) |
2.00 |
Caring for school-age children in a school-age program is a relatively new field of work. The field itself is constantly changing and expanding. In view of this "newness" and change, those who work in the field are playing an important role in shaping and defining what it means to be a school-age professional. They are guiding school-age care as an emerging profession.
In the search for a definition of professionalism in school-age programs, it is helpful to examine the common characteristics of professionalism in other fields. The next step is identifying qualities and characteristics associated with professional behavior in the school-age field, itself. As a school-age professional, it is also important to understand the importance of acting as a public policy advocate on behalf of school-age children and their families.
An important part of professionalism is continued personal growth and development in relation to the field. This requires using appropriate resources and strategies to further individual professional development. It also requires considering what constitutes ethical conduct in the field and developing an ongoing commitment to ethical behavior. |
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Growing as a Professional in School-Age Programs: Opportunities for Professional Development |
1.00 |
An important part of professionalism in the school-age field is continued personal growth and development in relation to the field. This requires using appropriate resources and strategies to further individual professional development. In this course, we will explore professional development opportunities for school-age staff. |
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Growing as a Professional in School-Age Programs: Professionalism in School-Age Programs |
1.00 |
In the search for a definition of professionalism in school-age programs, it is helpful to examine the common characteristics of professionalism in other fields. The next step is identifying qualities and characteristics associated with professional behavior in the school-age field itself. As a school-age professional, it is also important to understand the importance of acting as a public policy advocate on behalf of school-age children and their families. |
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Growing as a Professional: Health and Stress Management (Collection) |
2.00 |
An important part of professionalism in the school-age field is continued personal growth and development in relation to the field. This requires using appropriate resources and strategies to further individual professional development. In this course, we will explore professional development opportunities for school-age staff. |
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Growing as a Professional: Health and Stress Management: Nurturing and Maintaining Good Health |
1.00 |
Every day, school-age care professionals dedicate themselves to caring for and nurturing children, youth, and families. Often, school-age care professionals are so dedicated to serving others, they neglect their own needs. When this happens, school-age staff can experience stress that causes them to become overwhelmed, exhausted, frustrated, dissatisfied with job responsibilities, and unappreciated. When school-age care professionals maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle, they are in a much better position to face the challenges of supporting and nurturing children and families with positive energy, enthusiasm, patience, and empathy. In this course, we will explore ways to nurture and maintain good health. |
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Growing as a Professional: Health and Stress Management: Strategies for Coping with Stress |
1.00 |
Every day, school-age care professionals dedicate themselves to caring for and nurturing children, youth, and families. Often, school-age care professionals are so dedicated to serving others, they neglect their own needs. When this happens, school-age staff can experience stress that causes them to become overwhelmed, exhausted, frustrated, dissatisfied with job responsibilities, and unappreciated. When school-age care professionals maintain a healthy, balanced lifestyle, they are in a much better position to face the challenges of supporting and nurturing children and families with positive energy, enthusiasm, patience, and empathy. In this course, we will examine strategies to help staff cope with stress. |
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Growth and Development of Infants and Toddlers (CDA 1) |
2.00 |
A family child care early learning program that supports the growth and development of infants and toddlers needs nurturing caregivers, a healthy and safe environment, good relationships between family and caregiver, and appropriate activities to offer good quality care. This takes planning and knowledge of the growth and development of infants and toddlers. Find ways to enhance your family child care environment and build quality relationships with the infants and toddlers in your care.
This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum. It covers CDA Subject Area 1, Planning a Safe and Healthy Environment. This course can also be taken as a stand-alone learning event, or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum. |
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Growth and Development of Preschoolers in Family Child Care (CDA 1) |
2.00 |
A supportive and healthy environment is key to promoting the growth and development of preschoolers. In this course, you will identify appropriate health and safety practices, examine how to develop developmentally appropriate activities, and explore how equipment and materials can help stimulate learning.
This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum. It covers CDA Subject Area 1: Planning a Safe, Healthy Environment to Invite Learning. This course can also be taken as a stand-alone learning event, or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum.
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Growth Mindset in the Classroom |
1.25 |
This course covers how to incorporate a growth mindset in the classroom. It includes a comparison between growth and fixed mindset, as well as ways to help students have a "can do" attitude in school. It will help you develop new knowledge about this concept and how you can support a growth mindset in the classroom. This is just one of the many K-12 education courses we offer. |
