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Health Literacy and Older Adults |
1.25 |
The goal of promoting healthy aging has been a central idea in Geriatric Medicine for over 40 years. Health behaviors contribute the largest component to staying healthy and maintaining function as we age. Lifestyle Medicine works with patients to help them adopt healthy behaviors that can reduce, treat and prevent chronic disease. The Blue Zones identified several components that contribute to health, well-being and longevity. By focusing on physical activity, healthy eating, and social connection, we can promote healthy aging and reduce chronic illness. |
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Healthy Bodies: Promoting Good Nutrition and Physical Activity in Child Care |
1.00 |
This course will give you a broad overview of how to instill healthy habits at an early age. It will provide you with information about the nutritional needs of children and the benefits and risks associated with physical activity levels. Strategies will be given to use this knowledge in the classroom. |
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Heat Illness |
0.75 |
This course covers the basics when it comes to heat-related illnesses. The topics discussed will include warning signs, types of heat-related illnesses, and how to prevent these illnesses. |
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Helping Children with ADD Succeed In School-Age Programs (Collection) |
2.00 |
Children with ADD regularly experience struggles and challenges at home, in school, and in the community. Without the help of knowledgeable, understanding, and supportive people, they often experience multiple failures and frustrations on a daily basis. Typically, they lack the self-confidence that stems from learning how to do things well. Their lack of social skills and self-control makes it hard for them to make friends with schoolmates and children they meet in program activities. By the school-age years, many of these children do not feel good about themselves. They feel lonely and ostracized. Their self-esteem sinks a little lower every day.
Staff in school-age programs are in a position to make a positive difference in the lives of children with ADD. Armed with important information and management tools, they can help reverse the cycle of failure and frustration that results in low self-esteem in these children. They can make life easier, happier, and more satisfying for children with ADD, their parents, other children in the program, and themselves.
IMPORTANT NOTE: ADD stands for Attention Deficit disorder. Many professionals refer to this disorder as ADHD, which stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Some professionals use these terms simultaneously or interchangeably. In this module, the term ADD is used to refer to the basic form of the disorder and recognizes that the basic pattern of inattention associated with ADD often includes the component of hyperactivity related to extremes in temperament. |
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Helping Children with ADD Succeed In School-Age Programs: Characteristics and Needs of Children |
1.00 |
Children with ADD regularly experience struggles and challenges at home, in school, and in the community. Without the help of knowledgeable, understanding, and supportive people, they often experience multiple failures and frustrations on a daily basis. In this course, we will explore characteristics and needs of children with ADD. |
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Helping Children with ADD Succeed In School-Age Programs: Strategies and Techniques for Staff |
1.00 |
Children with ADD regularly experience struggles and challenges at home, in school, and in the community. Without the help of knowledgeable, understanding, and supportive people, they often experience multiple failures and frustrations on a daily basis. In this course, we will examine strategies and techniques that staff can use when working with children with ADD. |
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Helping Children with ADHD Succeed in School-Age Programs |
2.00 |
Children with ADHD regularly experience struggles and challenges at home, in school, and in the community. Without the help of knowledgeable, understanding, and supportive people, they often experience multiple failures and frustrations on a daily basis. Typically, they lack the self-confidence that stems from learning how to do things well. Their lack of social skills and self-control makes it hard for them to make friends with schoolmates and children they meet in program activities. By the school-age years, many of these children do not feel good about themselves. They feel lonely and ostracized. Their self-esteem sinks a little lower every day.
Staff in school-age programs are in a position to make a positive difference in the lives of children with ADHD. Armed with important information and management tools, they can help reverse the cycle of failure and frustration that results in low self-esteem in these children. They can make life easier, happier, and more satisfying for children with ADHD, their parents, other children in the program, and themselves. |
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Helping Students with ADD Succeed for Paraprofessionals |
1.50 |
Children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) regularly experience struggles and challenges at home, in school, and in the community. Paraprofessionals are in a unique position to make a positive difference in the lives of students with ADD. Armed with important information and management tools, they can help reverse the cycle of failure and frustration that results in low self-esteem in these students. They can make life easier, happier, and more satisfying for students with ADD, their parents, other children in the class, and themselves. |
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HEPA Standards 2.0 and the Self-Assessment Tool |
1.00 |
In 2011 the National AfterSchool Association adopted standards for healthy eating and physical activity (HEPA) in out-of-school time. In 2018, the HEPA Standards were updated to Version 2.0.
This interactive e-learning course, commissioned by the Kentucky Out-of-School Alliance (KYOSA) and designed by CypherWorx, will explain how the HEPA Standards were created and how they should be used, as well as presenting the Standards in their entirety. We will also cover the HEPA Standards 2.0 Self-Assessment Tool and how to use it. |
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Herramientas Fundamentales para Monitorear el Desarrollo Infantil (CDA 7) (Spanish) Fundamental Tools to Monitor Child Development (CDA 7) |
2.00 |
Este curso sumerge a los profesionales de la educación y el cuidado infantil en el poderoso trío de observación, documentación y evaluación. Descubra cómo estas herramientas le permiten monitorear de cerca el progreso de cada niño, identificar necesidades e intereses individuales y adaptar el apoyo en consecuencia. Profundice en el uso de actividades de evaluación para perfeccionar y elevar la calidad de la atención preescolar, garantizando que cada niño alcance su máximo potencial.
This course immerses early care and education professionals in the powerful trio of observation, documentation, and assessment. Discover how these tools allow you to closely monitor each child's progress, identify individual needs and interests, and tailor support accordingly. Dive deeper into using assessment activities to refine and elevate the quality of preschool care, ensuring every child reaches their full potential. |
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High-Leverage Practices for Paraprofessionals |
1.00 |
Welcome to High-Leverage Practices for Paraprofessionals. This course covers the four fundamental components of high-leverage practices and how to implement them in the classroom to support student success. |
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High-Leverage Practices for Teachers |
1.25 |
Welcome to High-Leverage Practices for Teachers. This course covers the fundamental components of high-leverage practices and how to implement them in the classroom to support student success. |
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Homework Assistance |
2.00 |
Supporting children and youth with their homework is a basic element of nearly all out-of-school time programs, yet it is something that can be challenging for many OST professionals. During this course, participants examine the importance of homework assistance, as well as strategies and skills to provide effective homework assistance. |
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Honest Jobs |
0.25 |
This course is designed to assist learners in creating and using an Honest Jobs account to help secure post-incarceration employment. |
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Hose Competency (Instructor Guide) |
1.00 |
This is the Instructor Guide for Hose Competency. This competency evaluates the ability of assigned companies to perform hose tasks including stretching, advancing, and operating fire hose streams. This competency may also be conducted as an independent drill or evolution. |
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How to Build Relationships That Work |
1.00 |
Most of us already know that relationships matter in any field, but particularly in education. The question is: how? How do I build life impacting relationships with students? How do I build resourceful relationships with my colleagues on campus? How do I build supportive relationships with my students' parents? Based on the book Relationships That Work, this workshop presents a framework—the practice of four essential skills that will posture and position any educator to a place of relational readiness. 1) Reflecting (on why I am here); 2) Directing (the fuel of my emotion); 3) Connecting (building relational bridges across differences) and 4) Protecting (my mind, my heart, and my body from toxic, hurtful people). |
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How to Escape Survival Mode |
1.00 |
Each day presents new challenges for educators in the pandemic: student attendance, staff shortages, concerned parents, and the demands of our personal lives can leave us feeling like we’re just living to get through the day (or the hour!). It’s called “survival mode.” While knowing how to live in survival mode is necessary through these times, we do not want it to become our new normal. The good news is that we can make small physical and mental adjustments each day that will keep us from being driven by the chaos of external forces. |
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How to Manage Emotions |
1.00 |
When students manage emotion, behavior manages itself. Since emotions are a powerful driver of behavior, behavior management strategies that do not empower students with emotional literacy will do little to help students gain insight into their behaviors. When we ignore, inhibit, or invalidate emotion, we deny students (and ourselves) the opportunity to learn to appropriately express emotion. Only when we invite emotion can we then instruct emotion. |
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How to Navigate Stress Like a Hero |
1.00 |
If only stress weren’t so stressful. There is good news, though: stress doesn’t have to be the enemy! In fact, we can enhance our emotional intelligence by identifying the sources of our stress and creating a plan for adaptive stress management. Stress fuel—adrenaline and cortisol—can empower us to be Life-Givers or Life-Suckers, and fortunately, we get to make the choice. |
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How to Nurture Wholistic Wellbeing |
1.00 |
Educators are nurtures, which means they make tremendous sacrifices to empower their students to grow and develop. That is a significant part of why education is commonly considered the noblest profession. Self-sacrifice, though, can become a liability when not considered in proper context; just as a cell phone battery must be recharged regularly so as not to lose all capacity, so too must the life of the educator be recharged so as not to lose the passion for this noble calling. The good news is that not only is personal balance attainable, but as we nurture it, we will find yourself maximizing our impact—both instructionally and relationally—in the classroom and beyond. Based on material from the book The Power of a Teacher, this workshop guides participants through the five areas of wellbeing: physical, occupational, emotional, financial, and spiritual. Not only does the workshop empower educators with a mandate for self-care, it offers practical, actionable strategies to achieve and maintain wellbeing. One of the most loving things we can do for those depending on us is to offer them the best version of ourselves Let’s get our recharge on! |
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Human Relations Skill Development |
2.00 |
Being able to communicate effectively is an essential human relations skill for school-age care professionals. To be a good communicator, school-age professionals need to understand the components of communication and how the communication process works. They need to identify barriers to clear communication and develop strategies for minimizing or eliminating barriers to communication. School-age care professionals also need to work cooperatively with other team members to solve problems and conflicts. This requires an understanding of how teams work and the characteristics of effective teams. Assessing the current status of personal human relations skills helps each professional identify priorities for making improvements to these skills. |
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Human Relations Skill Development (Collection) |
2.00 |
Being able to communicate effectively is an essential human relations skill for school-age care professionals. To be a good communicator, school-age professionals need to understand the components of communication and how the communication process works. They need to identify barriers to clear communication and develop strategies for minimizing or eliminating barriers to communication. School-age care professionals also need to work cooperatively with other team members to solve problems and conflicts. This requires an understanding of how teams work and the characteristics of effective teams. Assessing the current status of personal human relations skills helps each professional identify priorities for making improvements to these skills. |
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Human Relations Skill Development: Communication and Team Building for Paraprofessionals |
1.00 |
Being able to communicate effectively is an essential human relations skill for paraprofessionals. To be a good communicator, paraprofessionals need to understand the components of communication, and how the communication process works. They need to identify barriers to clear communication and develop strategies for minimizing or eliminating barriers to communication. Assessing the current status of personal human relations skills helps each professional identify priorities for making improvements to these skills. |
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Human Relations Skill Development: Cultivating Communication Skills |
0.67 |
Being able to communicate effectively is an essential human relations skill for school-age care professionals. To be a good communicator, school-age professionals need to understand the components of communication, and how the communication process works. They need to identify barriers to clear communication, and develop strategies for minimizing or eliminating barriers to communication. School-age care professionals also need to work cooperatively with other team members to solve problems and conflicts. In this course, we will explore strategies for cultivating good communication skills. |
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Human Relations Skill Development: Focus on Leadership Styles and Conflict Management |
2.00 |
Research indicates that those in positions of leadership use a variety of different leadership and management styles. A person’s effectiveness as a leader is often directly linked to his or her leadership style. It is important for OST professionals to be aware of the assumptions and characteristics of different leadership styles. Knowledge of different leadership styles can help OST professionals reflect on their own leadership style and assess its effectiveness. It can also help OST professionals take a proactive approach to applying different leadership styles and techniques, depending on the situation.
Leaders also use a variety of different styles when it comes to managing and resolving conflicts. By understanding how to diagnose the causes and dynamics of conflict and understanding the characteristics of different conflict management styles, OST professionals can choose the best conflict management strategy for each situation.
There are a number of skills that enhance the ability of OST professionals to employ different leadership and conflict management styles effectively. When OST professionals are aware of these skills and their own skill levels, they can set priorities for ongoing development of leadership skills. |
