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Technology: An IDEA for Everyday Learning
Technology is pervasive in our world today. Parents often boast of their very young toddlers operating phone applications and computers. What is appropriate and beneficial for children?
Words That Cook
This series celebrates the joy of reading, the art of writing, the wonder of storytelling and the magic of wordplay through a combination of interviews and live action spiced up with animated fun.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.
Visual Arts
Art helps children learn about their world and express their ideas. These programs show teachers providing children with open-ended activities and discussions and integrating art with language, literacy, math, and science. Other topics include how to store art materials so children can access them freely and some imaginative ways to exhibit and preserve their artwork.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.
Understanding Childhood Trauma
Trauma in childhood puts kids at risk for long-term physical, emotional, and learning problems in school and life. This important series examines traumatic experience during childhood—how to identify it, how to understand it, and how to respond to it in supportive ways.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.
Tools for Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Practice
This program communicates the key concepts of good early childhood practice. Excellent teaching is seen in a range of programs: infant/toddler rooms, child-care centers, preschools, family child-care homes, kindergartens, and primary-grade classrooms. National early childhood leaders, classroom teachers, administrators, and parents explain developmentally appropriate practice.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.
Toddlers
This course examines the development of symbolic thinking and pretend play in the toddler as well as how toddlers interact with family and peers as they develop attachments and social bonds, while learning to speak individual words and short sentences.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.
Technology
This course explores standards for exemplary learning environments and technology use.
Succeeding as a Teacher
Designed to give beginning teachers the background and skills to become successful teachers. It will show how to plan and prepare meaningful instruction; use instructional strategies that help all students; put into effect proven classroom management skills; and communicate and grow as a professional.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.
Study of a Child
This series helps early childhood educators and parents understand the educational theories of philosophers. It also shows that much of what we know about children is learned through observation. It lays out the history of child development, from early philosophies to changing beliefs about human nature, with a look at the nature-nurture question. Segments also show an overview of theory in action.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.
Story in the Early Years
This training describes how an early childhood curriculum can use stories from children and adults to help children develop cognitively, socially and emotionally. Participants will develop techniques in collecting, connecting and nurturing storytelling in young children.
VIDEO DISCLAIMER: This course DOES NOT include the videos needed to complete the coursework. You will have to borrow them from your public library.