Skills for the Education Workers...
Where
This is an online event.
Contact
Ebony Vaughn
HS University
Toll Free: 1-888-282-7817
Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education
Changes in early childhood education and development bring both opportunities and challenges. Today you have endless opportunities to participate in the ongoing re-creation of the early childhood profess. Creating and re-creating the early childhood profession is one of your constant professional roles. This means that almost everyday, you have to re-create yourself as an early childhood professional.
This six-weeks online course helps you achieve this professional goal. The course will help you learn what it takes to understand and teach young children and how to provide the support they and their families need and deserve.
The course focuses on nine critical themes that are foundational to the field of early childhood education today.
- The importance of all children's language and literacy development and competency. As more school districts require children to read on grade level by grade 3, you must know how to promote children's reading achievement so that all children can learn and be successful. In addition, to help you meet the needs of the inceasing number of children from diverse cultures who are English learners, we provide many instructional practices and examples that enable you to confidentely teach all children
- The welcoming and support of the growing number of children from diverse families including those with LGBTQ parents, military families, multigenerational families, grandparent-headed families and families with incarcerated parents. These demographic shift have many implications for your teaching and children's learning. Throughout the course, we provide specific pedagogoical practices to assure that all children and families are welcomed and supported.
- The importance of developmentally appropriate practices and the application of these practices to all aspects of early childhood programs and classroom activities. In keeping with today's emphasis on academic achievement, the course anchors your professional practice, beginning with the first lesson and provides you with step-by-step strategies for helping all children learn in developmentally appropriate ways.
- The effects of poverty and low socioeconomic status on children and their families. Today, more children and families than ever before live below the poverty line. Many children come to school unprepared to meet the challenges of preschool. This course helps you educate all children and learn how to close the achievement gaps that exist between children in poverty and their more economically advantage peers.
- The integration of the fields of special education and early childhood education. Increasingly, special education practices influences early childhood practices. The course helps you understand the interwoven nature of these two fields and appreciate how this integration provides enhanced opportunities for both you and the children you teach in your inclusive classroom.
- School readiness. How to help families get their children ready for school and how to promote children's school readiness is at the forefront of issues facing society today. This course provides you with helpful information and strategies that enable you to close the readiness gaps that exist across ethnic, gender, linguistic nd socioeconomic backgrounds.
- The integration of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) subjects into the curriculum, with an emphasis on engineering for all students. STEAM subjects are considered to be of great importance by the nation's business leaders, and they constitute the foundation for providing a well-trained and educated workforce.
- A new emphasis on providing for children's mental health growth and development. In the wake of well-publicized school shootings, (e.g., the Parkland High School shooting) and other violent tragedies across the United States (e.g., Las Vegas mass shooting) society is demanding that the nation's schools provide children's healthy social and emotional development. Society needs children who are socially and emotionally healthy.
- The use of technology to support children's learning. Contemporary teachers are savvy users of technology to promote children's learning and their own professional development. This course helps you gain the technologial skills you need to teach in today's classroom. Practicing professionals offer examples of how to integrate and use technology in teaching and learning in classroom.
Who should participate? - This workshop was designed for staff who work in edcation. Teachers, Home visitors, and all staff members who are responsible for the education and development of children.
Earn your credential! - This 6-weeks online course prepares students for the online course work and/or practicum and the completion toward our professional credential. This course meets the following of the NAEYC Standards:
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- Promoting Child Development and Learning
- Building Family and Community Relationships
- Observing, documentng, and assessing to support young children and families
- Using developmentally effect approaches to connect with children and families
In order to earn an Administrator or Supervisor credential or become a licensed professional, students must complete the required courses, a portfolio, a prior learning assessment and a formal observation to be submitted to the Council for Professional Recognition (http://www.cdacouncil.org/) for review.
Why attend HS University training?
The true value of training is where it can take you. At HS University, we strive to make our training meet compliance issues upon your return to your program. We have 24/7 student support, our 250+ page course manual is recognized by federal review teams as an excellent resource of compliance.
Smaller class sizes...
Our class size is small (usually 15-40 people). Smaller class size means trainers can use that information to tailor the approach to the group so they don’t have to teach in a one-size-fits-all model. It means more incentive for students to pay attention and become engaged in a small class. Students have a greater chance to get to network and benefit from other student comments. Lastly, our trainings are designed as a curriculum to transfer to higher education learning. Keeping class sizes smaller allows more Universities to accept our trainings as college credit.
Benefits of HS University trainings...
At HS University it is all about learning. We focus on regulations compliance from Office of Head Start standards. We make trainings informative, fun and interactive. We also offer flexible scheduling with the option to attend classes from your desk at work via Blackboard Learn online, or at a conference location near you. We never talk gimmics. We give valuable information that is crucial to meeting compliance. We explain the standards from Office of Head Start point of view. No keys, no legal scare tatics, just plain regulations solutions. We don't link ourselves to any university, because WE ARE A UNIVERSITY... a University serving ONLY Head Start.
We set higher standards! HS University... We are a different school of learning!
Call 1-888-282-7817 today and register to get your program in compliance.