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After School Improvement Series: Emergency Action Plans |
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Like all other early childhood and school-age settings, after school programs need to consider how they prepare for and respond to emergency situations, from natural disasters, like storms, earthquakes, tornados, flash floods, or volcanic eruptions; fires; power outages; missing children; or acts of violence, including active shooter situations. Some emergency situations may require evacuation, while others may initiate a lock down, or shelter-in-place. The best way to prepare for emergency situations is to plan for them. We can do this by considering the kinds of emergency situations we might encounter, and then developing a series of procedures and protocols for responding to them. Your program’s Emergency Action Plan sets out your role and responsibilities should any of these emergencies occur.
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Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) |
1.00 |
This course covers multi-tiered system of support. Multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) is a framework to give targeted academic, behavioral, and social support to students. This is just one of many K-12 courses we offer. It will help you develop new knowledge about students and will help you understand the various roles in a school. |
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Utility Pole Incidents (NYS05) |
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This is a basic lesson for the introduction or review of the utility pole for the firefighter. The lesson defines types of utility poles and identifies the risks and hazards associated with operating at incidents that involve them. The lesson is evaluated with a final multiple-choice quiz. A grade of 80% or better is required to pass this course. |
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Family-Teacher Relationships (CDA 4) |
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How do you view the families of the children in your classroom? If you were to generate a list of words to describe families, what kinds of positive and negative feelings would they convey?
When we see ourselves as partners with the families we serve, the quality of care and nurturing children receive is greatly enhanced. Establishing such partnerships and building relationships is our responsibility. Communication strategies, such as practicing active listening, are key to this process. In this course, participants will describe the importance and benefits of establishing meaningful relationships with families and identify strategies for establishing meaningful relationships.
This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum. It covers CDA Subject Area 4: Strategies to Establish Productive Relationships with Families. 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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Social-Emotional Learning, Character Building & Enhancing Quality |
2.00 |
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Strengthen your understanding of the social-emotional learning and character building that expanded learning programs support.
Be able to articulate what social-emotional learning and character development looks like in children and youth.
Identify the connection between quality standards and social-emotional learning and character development. |
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Food Allergy Basics: Symptoms and Triggers |
1.00 |
Welcome to Food Allergy Basics: Symptoms and Triggers. This course identifies the symptoms and triggers of food allergies.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Define food allergy.
- Identify the foods that cause 90% of all food allergies.
- List the symptoms of food allergies. |
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Food Allergy Basics: Emergency Response |
1.00 |
Welcome to Food Allergy Basics: Emergency Response. This course is focused on how to use a Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Emergency Care Plan to care for a child with a food allergy.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Explain the correct use of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Emergency Care Plan.
- Identify the six rights of medication administration. |
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Safe Infant Sleep: Safe Sleep Policy |
1.00 |
This course is focused on safe infant sleep policies, and how to communicate best practice for safe sleep with the families of infants in your care.
Course Learning Objectives:
Explain the purpose and contents of a safe infant sleep policy.
Explore strategies for communicating with families about safe infant sleep practices. |
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21st Century Skills in Young Children |
1.00 |
In this course, you will identify skills considered to be essential for success in the 21st century, and examine the critical connection between these skills and academic learning. You will also explore how one Key Learning Area from Learning Standards for Early Childhood - Social and Emotional Development - can help you promote the development of 21st Century Skills in the children with whom you work. |
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Exploring Developmental Needs and Characteristics: Age Group 13 to 17 for Paraprofessionals |
1.50 |
Certain developmental needs and traits are associated with younger school-age children, while others are typical of older school-age children. While the differences between school-age children of different ages are not clear-cut, there are some general traits and tasks that are often associated with older school-age children. This course delves into the specific traits of students between the ages of 13 and 17. |
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Fire Extinguishers (NYS03) |
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This lesson reviews the identification, selection, and use of different types of fire extinguishers. The lesson begins with a review of the basic science of fire. The classifications are defined and described and the extinguishers that meet those classifications are identified. Fire extinguisher maintenance is described and reviewed. Finally, the PASS method of fire extinguisher operation is defined and described. |
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Constructing: Airway Essentials—Part 8 |
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These eight Airway Essentials Lessons conclude with Dr. Christopher Galton's thoughts on what should be done after the ALS airway has been established. It is here that ideas are offered on what paramedics should read and learn more about to improve their practice. Grab a pencil and a notepad and get ready to graduate from the EMS Plumbline "Introduction to ALS" to the "Paramedicine" Division. Final Exam: This multiple choice exam is designed to test your knowledge of the material you just reviewed. You have two attempts to gain an 80% or higher on this exam. Please take your time and answer each question carefully. |
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Infectious Diseases: Causes and Symptoms |
1.00 |
An infectious disease is an illness that is caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Many of these organisms live in or on our bodies, and are normally harmless. But under certain circumstances, they can cause disease.
Course Learning Objectives:
- Describe infectious disease, and the ways in which germs that can cause infectious disease are spread.
- Identify common symptoms of infectious diseases, and why young children are vulnerable to infectious diseases. |
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Infectious Diseases: Environmental Management |
1.00 |
This course is focused on reducing the risk of infectious diseases in early care and education environments.
Course Learning Objectives:
List environmental management strategies for reducing the spread of germs that cause infectious disease. |
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Infectious Diseases: Daily Health Check |
1.00 |
This course is focused on the daily health check, and how it relates to policy guidelines about whether or not children with symptoms of infectious diseases can participate in program activities.
Course Learning Objectives:
Describe the elements of a daily health check.
Discuss how daily health checks relate to policy guidelines about whether or not children with symptoms of infectious diseases can participate in program activities. |
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STEM and Supportive Practices |
1.00 |
STEM is an intentional, integrative approach to teaching and learning that can occur across all knowledge areas; it is not a specific curriculum. The STEM approach focuses on providing opportunities for students to explore and develop a comprehensive set of concepts, competencies, and thinking skills.
In this course, we’ll see how the Supportive Practices found in Learning Standards for early childhood promote the development of STEM concepts, competencies, and thinking skills.
Course Learning Objective:
- Use the supportive practices to promote the development of STEM concepts, competencies, and thinking skills. |
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STEM and Learning Standards |
1.00 |
STEM is an intentional, integrative approach to teaching and learning that can occur across all knowledge areas; it is not a specific curriculum.
The STEM approach focuses on providing opportunities for students to explore and develop a comprehensive set of concepts, competencies, and thinking skills.
STEM competencies include a vocabulary rich in the language of science, technology, engineering and math—words like hypothesis, gravity, buoyant, balance, temperature, and battery. STEM competencies also include basic principles of engineering, like problem-solving and planning; of science, like experimentation and observation; of technology, like using tools to complete both a task and solve real world problems; and of math by recognizing that basic principles of math are part of everyday activities, like comparing and contrasting, counting, and dividing a whole to create equal parts.
Course Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate how learning standards for early childhood promote the development of STEM concepts, competencies, and thinking skills. |
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Creating and Maintaining Healthy and Safe School Environments |
1.00 |
Keeping school-age children healthy and safe is a major priority for schools. This requires careful attention to setting up the environment to promote healthy habits and using effective strategies for monitoring and maintaining a hygienic environment. It also requires setting up the classroom environment to promote safety and using effective strategies for monitoring and maintaining a safe environment. Because students are growing towards independence, it is also essential to help them develop habits and behaviors for living a healthy lifestyle and to help keep them safe from harm as they participate in school experiences. |
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CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 Exam Prep |
1.00 |
Exam Prep to accompany 30 Bird's CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) - Exam CAS-004 course. |
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Paraprofessional Math Skills 3: Data Analysis |
1.50 |
This course covers Paraprofessional Math Skills: Data Analysis. It is just one out of three Paraprofessional Math Skills courses, and one out of eight ParaPro prep courses that will prepare you on K-12 math topics. This course will help you develop your knowledge of these mathematical concepts and help you apply them to abstract and real-life situations. After taking these prep courses, you should be better prepared for the ETS ParaPro Assessment. This course can be taken as a stand-alone learning event, as part of a broader paraprofessional curriculum, or in preparation for the ParaPro Assessment.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Interpret information from tables, charts, and graphs
Interpret trends over time, given a table, chart, or graph with time related data
Create basic tables, charts, and graphs
Compute the mean, median, and mode |
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Dance for Joy: Confident, Calm, and Compassionate |
1.00 |
This module from Dance for Joy will provide teachers with resources and activities that can be used and modified to support physical, mental, social, and emotional development in young children.
This course covers 5 activities: Tickle the Sky, Tapping, Every Little Cell, We are One, Scoop up the Universe. |
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Development and Characteristics of Learners for Teachers |
1.00 |
Development and Characteristics of Learners will assist you in fostering a solid understanding of how children develop and the disability categories that may impact their learning. This course will also help you gain invaluable insight into ways you can support children and meet their needs. |
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Dance for Joy: Movement, Music, and Rhyme |
1.00 |
This module from Dance for Joy will provide teachers with resources and activities that can be used and modified to support physical, mental, social, and emotional development in young children.
This course covers 5 activities: I Touch My Nose, I Touch My Toes, Hold Yourself Tight, Wake Up Right, Reach One Way, Reach the Other, Locomotor Freeze Dance, Salt and Pepper Dance. |
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The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) for Administrators |
1.50 |
Welcome to The Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) course. This course is designed for anyone who works in a school. It is just one of the many K-12 courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about students and will help you understand how DASA is implemented within schools. |
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Autism Spectrum Disorder |
1.50 |
This course covers autism spectrum disorder (ASD), focusing on how it is diagnosed, how it presents in the classroom, and school supports. This content will help you increase your knowledge about students with ASD and will help you understand how you might support these students. |
