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Creativity and Innovation: Personal Creativity |
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Creativity is often considered a talent that some people have. Actually, creativity's a skill that everyone can nurture through exercise and practice. You can prepare yourself both mentally and physically to be creative.
In this course you will learn to: prepare yourself mentally and physically to be creative, and use your experiences, innocence, intuition, and sense of adventure to increase your creativity. |
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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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Creating and Managing Budgets in School-Age Programs |
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When program budgets are developed through a careful, step-by-step process, they become valuable planning tools. By using effective budget planning tools and strategies, school-age care professionals can make realistic projections about the programs financial stability, and design strategies for generating and allocating resources to support the programs vision and mission. It is important for school-age care professionals to understand that the budget process is ongoing. It involves linking financial goals to program goals, identifying program priorities, allocating resources effectively, using reliable methods for calculating potential expenses and revenues, monitoring performance against projections made, and making needed changes and adjustments for the future. |
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Observing Children in School-Age Programs |
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Conducting and documenting objective, accurate observations of children in school-age programs is an important professional responsibility of school-age care professionals. Two useful tools for structuring observations are developmental checklists and anecdotal records. Both tools provide rich information that help staff learn about children’s development. When school-age care staff conduct regular observations of children’s development, and prepare objective documentation of these observations, they are able to discover the uniqueness of each child, and provide developmentally appropriate guidance and support for all children in the program. |
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Safety and Survival in an Active Shooter Event in School Settings |
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Welcome to Safety and Survival in an Active Shooter Event in School Settings. Recent national tragedies in schools remind us that the risk is real: an active shooter incident can happen in any place at any time in any school district. The best way to make sure you are safe is to prepare ahead of time and be ready.
Warning: Some of this content may be disturbing, if you need to take a break, please do so. If you exit and then come back into the course later, it will resume where you left off. |
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Framing: Toxic Inhalations at Structure Fires |
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In this brief overview, we discuss the topic of smoke inhalation as it relates to what may occur during a typical structure fire. The emphasis of this lesson will be CO and Cyanide. These are two of the most common toxic inhalation hazards that EMS providers will encounter when treating those that are exposed. 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 70% or higher on this exam. Please take your time and answer each question carefully. |
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Managing Performance: Performance Improvements (Instructor Guide) |
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In this course you will learn to: plan performance improvements, handle performance problems, and use effective communication to solve performance problems, conduct status meetings, and maintain documentation of ongoing communication. |
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Project Teams: Preparing Teams for Project Work |
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Building a project team is more complex than assigning employees to the team. Team members must feel a sense of dedication to other team members, as well as to the project itself. Members who are not dedicated to the project team often disregard meetings, deadlines, and commitments, causing the entire team to suffer. To avoid these problems, the team managers and supervisors need to encourage team building to benefit the project, the team members, and the organization.
In this course you will learn to: empower and motivate a project team and develop positive culture in a project team, identify the causes of change in a team and manage change, and improve existing project teams. |
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Advanced Interpersonal Communication: Supervisors |
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When you think of a supervisor, you probably think of your immediate boss. However, in the workplace, most people have several supervisors. Your workplace might be divided into teams, departments or divisions. Within each level, there is a supervisor to whom you are accountable, even if you do not deal with that person on a day-to-day basis. Company executives and board members can also be considered supervisors because they might have the power to make decisions regarding your employment, salary, promotions, and work assignments. It is important to communicate effectively with all of your supervisors to maintain an efficient workplace and to be able to promote your own ideas for improvements.
In this course you will learn to: identify the types of ineffective supervisors and ways to interact with them, and negotiate a raise with a supervisor and offer an effective resignation. |
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Exploring Four Areas of School-Age Development: Physical Development |
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One of the most helpful ways to gain an understanding of the needs and interests of youth between 5 and 12 is to examine their development from four different perspectives: 1) Physical Development, 2) Cognitive Development, 3) Social Development, and 4) Emotional Development. In this course, we will explore the physical development perspective. |
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Team Participation: Nonverbal Communication and Active Listening |
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This course will focus on how to identify types of nonverbal cues and how they mesh with verbal messages, identify the characteristics of active listening and become an active listener, and respond to input in a productive manner. |
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Quality Management: The Costs Of Quality |
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Before the quality revolution that began in the United States in the 1980s, quality was frequently viewed as a goal that came at a higher price for production. However, the reality is that poor quality is a result of the ineffective use of resources, including wasted material and labor. Therefore, improved quality means better use of resources and lower costs.
In this course you will learn to: identify the relationship between quality and cost, the benefits of establishing quality requirements, management’s responsibilities for achieving conformance, and the costs of customer dissatisfaction. |
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Hazard Communication Basic |
1.00 |
This course covers the basics when it comes to hazard communication. The topics will range from the Hazard Communication Standard to the labeling of hazardous materials. |
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Planificación de Carrera y Salario (Spanish) Career Planning and Salary |
1.00 |
En este curso, aprenderemos consejos sobre cómo descubrir sus necesidades profesionales, explorar diferentes opciones profesionales, investigar salarios, adquirir habilidades laborales esenciales y cómo planificar su carrera.
In this course, we'll learn tips on how to discover your career needs, explore different career options, research salaries, gain essential job skills, and how to plan your career. |
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Customer Relationship Management: CRM Implementation |
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This course will cover how to redesign your work processes, and identify reasons to implement CRM in stages. You will also learn how to implement CRM. |
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Sales Skills: Advanced: Developing a Winning Strategy |
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This course will focus on examining consulting strategies and developing solutions for clients. |
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Construction Safety & Prevention Program: OSHA Inspections |
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This course covers the process of OSHA inspections, the penalties incurred when a workplace does not satisfy OSHA standards, and how to properly respond to an OSHA inspection. |
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Helping Children with ADD Succeed In School-Age Programs: Characteristics and Needs of Children |
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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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Project Teams: Projects and Project Teams (Instructor Guide) |
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A project is a task or a group of tasks with a distinct beginning and end that is undertaken to create a unique product or service. A project must have defined objectives to clearly indicate when the project is complete. In addition, a project must have a clear end user who will use or benefit from the product or service produced by the project team.
When an organization develops temporary needs that are outside the scope of individual employees’ responsibilities, it often forms project teams to address these issues. As a manager, it is your responsibility to recognize the need for a project team, determine the type of team required for the project, and assign employees to the team.
In this course you will learn to: identify the phases and requirements of a successful project, and build and organize a project team and avoid pitfalls in project teams.
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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Electrical Safety |
0.75 |
This course covers OSHA’s role and standards regarding electrical safety/hazards, defines the basic fundamentals of electricity, identifies and recognizes safety hazards, and describes protection methods against electrical hazards.
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Zoom Meeting Basics |
0.50 |
Zoom is a web-based video conferencing tool with a local, desktop client and a mobile app that allows users to meet online, with or without video. Zoom users can choose to record sessions, collaborate on projects, and share or annotate on one another’s screens, all with one easy-to-use platform. In this course we will go through the major features of Zoom Meetings. |
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Communicating with the Deaf Sign Language User |
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This training was developed by Dr. Jason Rotoli, Deaf Health Pathways Director, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in conjunction with Dr. Jeremy Cushman, Chief of the University of Rochester’s Division of Prehospital Medicine. Funding for the Care of the Culturally Deaf education was provided by Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. Continuing Education provided by EMSPlumbline
Final Exam: This multiple-choice exam is designed to test your knowledge of the material you just reviewed. You have three attempts to gain an 80% or higher on this exam. Please take your time and answer each question carefully. |
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Forklift Safety |
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This course covers the proper handling and safe operation of forklift truck machinery. This includes some of the hazards operators face as well as tips for proper load centering and proper load capacities to prevent tip-overs. |
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Infectious Diseases: Causes and Symptoms |
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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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Human Relations Skill Development: Leadership Styles and Conflict Management for Paraprofessionals |
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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 their leadership style. It is important for paraprofessionals to be aware of the assumptions and characteristics of different leadership styles. Knowledge of different leadership styles can help paraprofessionals reflect on their own leadership style, and assess its effectiveness. It can also help paraprofessionals 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, paraprofessionals can choose the best conflict management strategy for each situation. |
