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Introduction to Eldercare |
2.75 |
This course will equip you with the essential knowledge to navigate the unique challenges and opportunities that come with caring for older adults. |
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Making Educators Partners in Suicide Prevention |
0.75 |
This course covers Making Educators Partners in Suicide Prevention. It is just one of many educational courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about children and help you better understand your role. This course will give you a broad overview of suicide statistics and the disparities that come with it. It will then give you an understanding of what educational professionals can do to help their students who are at risk and provide you with strategies recommended by the CDC. |
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Medication Administration in Child Care |
0.50 |
This course covers Medication Administration in Child Care. It is just one out of many educational courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about children and help you better understand your role. In this course, you will learn about common medications children may take while under your care and the policies and guidelines for administering them. You will also read about adverse reactions and how to respond in an emergency. You will gain a greater understanding of the importance of safe drug administration. |
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Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) |
1.00 |
Many students with disabilities have difficulty with standard materials, seeing them, manipulating them, or decoding or comprehending them. These students need accessible instructional materials (AIM) in order to access the general education curriculum.
This course is all about accessible instructional materials. This course will help you develop new knowledge about students and will help you understand your role in assisting students that need to use these materials. |
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Employee Performance: Conflicts (Instructor Guide) |
0.67 |
In any organization, there are individuals with unique personalities and responsibilities. Conflicts are an inevitable part of employee interaction. Knowing how to resolve conflicts when they arise is vital to the well-being of any company.
In this course you will learn to: identify common myths associated with workplace conflicts, common reasons that conflicts arise, and types of workplace conflict, and distinguish between conflict management and conflict resolution.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Creating a Supportive Classroom Community (CDA 3) |
2.00 |
Learn ways to bring out nurturing, caring behaviors in children and youth to create a classroom community where children and youth support each other. Learn how to use non-competitive games to foster acceptance of all children and youth. Identify the strengths and weaknesses for both you and the children and youth in your program, and how to put the strengths to good use creating a sense of acceptance and community. This course is designed to be part of a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ curriculum. It covers CDA Subject Area 3: Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Development and may also be taken as a stand-alone learning event or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum. |
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Down Syndrome |
0.50 |
This course will help you understand the unique characteristics that children with Down syndrome possess and the challenges that they face. It will provide you with knowledge on how to create the best learning environment possible to meet their needs by giving you specific ways to plan your curriculum and ways in which you can encourage communication. You will feel prepared to make accommodations to welcome children with Down syndrome into your classroom. |
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Dyslexia |
1.00 |
This course will provide you with an overview of dyslexia to help you understand what it is all about, the challenges a student with dyslexia faces, and the best ways in which teachers can effectively support students with this disability. |
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Understanding Autism in Your Community |
1.00 |
This course is designed to educate communities on how they can work together to be more inclusive and accepting of people with autism. It will give you an overview of the struggles people with autism face and some ways in which communities can make themselves more accessible and autism-friendly. |
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
0.50 |
This course covers Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, also known as ADHD. A key discussion point of this course is whether ADHD is the wandering of attention, which is a trait, versus the deficit of attention, which is a disorder. We'll cover topics that include what ADHD is, its characteristics, the signs of ADHD, and possible medications or accommodations. It is just one out of many educational courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about children and help you better understand your role. |
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Autism and Bullying |
0.50 |
This course covers Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Bullying. The course will begin by going over what autism is, and then it will continue to teach you about the bullying that may occur along with it, and how you can assist. This content will help you learn more about children with ASD and will help you understand how you might support these children. |
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Trauma and Its Impact on Education |
1.50 |
Any professional employed in a school must understand the adverse experiences that students have can directly impact their experience in the classroom. This course dives into the definition of trauma, the impact of trauma on the brain, and how trauma can manifest in the classroom. It is important to know how to help students who have experienced trauma in their lives. This course will also touch on the importance of self-care for professionals who work with students who have experienced trauma. This course will help you develop new knowledge about students and help you understand your role as an educational professional.
Trauma and Its Impact on Education is the first course in a series of two trauma courses. After this course, be sure to check out Trauma-Informed Practices. |
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Emergency Response Guidebook Activity |
1.50 |
This course is an activity that requires the first responder to utilize the Emergency Response Guidebook to solve a variety of problems. The solution to each of these problems can be found using the 2020 Emergency Response Guidebook Version. Students will need to have a copy of the Emergency Response Guidebook Version 2020 to complete this activity. A 2020 Emergency Guidebook PDF is available for download in this lesson if a copy of the book is not available to the student.
It should be noted that this is an in-service training activity. The student must have prior knowledge and training regarding the Emergency Response Guidebook prior to engaging this activity.
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Benefits of Connecting Seniors and Young Children (CDA 3) |
2.00 |
This course equips you with the knowledge and tools to integrate senior adults into childcare and education programs. Discover how this approach benefits children, seniors, your program, and you, enriching lives across generations. |
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SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Keeping Babies Safe |
1.50 |
This course will give participants a brief overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related deaths. Participants will learn about recent research and statistics, the importance of child care providers, AAP SIDS Task Force recommendations, and how to implement polices in child care. |
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Creating a Safe and Respectful Environment for Our Nation's Children and Youth |
0.75 |
This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to create safer, more inclusive environments for children. You will learn about the dynamics of bullying, the impact it has on those who are bullied, and strategies for prevention. |
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OSTPD - Supporting Attendance through After School Programming |
1.00 |
This training will cover a number of areas regarding how after school programs can support youth attendance in school. By looking at and exploring the connection between after school programming and attendance in school, we see how after school programming supports attendance at school as well as how to coordinate with the school in order to maximize the positive impact of after school on school attendance through collaboration. |
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OSTPD - Promoting Positive Youth Development |
1.00 |
This training will define Positive Youth Development, benefits of Positive Youth Development and how to implement Positive Youth Development. |
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OSTPD - Supporting Alternative Pathways through Service Learning |
1.00 |
This training will cover a number of areas regarding how after school programs can support alternative pathways by using service learning. The course will review what service learning is and provide a solid foundation of this concept. It will then look at the benefits of service learning followed by how service learning supports youth’s alternative pathways. It will conclude with information on how to get started and creating a path to implement service learning in your own program.
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Transition Planning: Preparing Students with IEPs for Life After High School |
1.00 |
This course covers transition planning for paraprofessionals and teachers. Transition planning is a process that supports movement from school to post-school activities for a student with a disability. It’s a set of coordinated activities focused on improving the academic and functional achievement of the student as they move into various post-secondary vocational and educational settings. |
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Introduction to Fireground Communications |
0.50 |
This course defines communication and identifies five components of a fireground communication model. Each component is described in detail and a procedure for implementing the components is reviewed. The different types of common fireground communications are described and examples of each are given. |
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Animal Behavior 2: Application of Animal Behavior Research in Zoos and Aquariums |
1.00 |
Modern accredited zoos and aquariums strive to use behavioral data to make many management decisions about the animals under their professional care. This course will provide an overview of many different uses of animal behavior in a zoological setting, including the ability to examine indicators of animal welfare. |
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Basic Health & Safety Requirements for Certification |
6.00 |
Best practices and standards for health and safety are the foundation of quality child care. Meeting the basic health and safety needs of all children sets the stage for positive child outcomes.
This health and safety orientation module provides an overview of the basic health and safety requirements and best practices in nine of the topic areas outlined in the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Reauthorization of 2015. The topics are as follows:
Safe spaces; Transportation safety; Handling and storage of hazardous materials; Emergency preparedness; Prevention and control of infectious disease; Food and allergic reactions and how to respond; Administration of medication; Shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma; Safe sleep and SUIDS prevention.
This course is designed to meet your professional development needs. It can be taken as a stand-alone learning event, or as part of a broader early childhood education curriculum. In addition to state child care regulations, there may be other health and safety measures required by your municipality, township, or county. Check with county or local offices for information on local health and safety requirements. |
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I Am: Supporting Self-Awareness and Self-Management |
2.00 |
Children and youth develop social-emotional skills and character over time and through a variety of experiences.
Expanded Learning Programs strongly support three foundational areas of Social-Emotional Learning and Character Building:
- I AM (Interpersonal Connections)
- I BELONG (Interpersonal Connections)
- I CAN (Belief and Mindset)
This course focuses on the I Am skills.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand how young people's responses affect personal emotion and behavior.
- Learn how group agreements can support self-awareness and self-management in children and youth.
- Learn strategies and resources to support I Am skill building with children and youth. |
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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. |
