Child school training courses in Ann Arbor, MI (public, in-house or online)

This Child Development Certificate is the first level in a three-tier training program. This program prepares students for the assessment exam required for the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. It also prepares students for employment in child care centers or in family home daycare settings working with infants and toddlers, or preschoolers. Skills from the 13 functional areas required by the National Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition are emphasized.

Child Care school covers the following:
Providing a Safe Learning Environment
Providing a Healthy Learning Environment
Providing a Developmentally Appropriate Learning Environment
Early Care & Education: Past, Present & Future
Stages of Early Childhood Development
Expectations of the Early Childhood Professional
Children Don’t Come with Directions
Creating & Evaluating & Early Childhood Environment
Planning to Play
Planning for the Mind

Child welfare defined

�Historical overview of family and child welfare services

�The changing family

�Current social problems and their impacts on children: poverty, violence, addiction and homelessness

�Human and economic costs of child poverty

�Teen pregnancy

�Child maltreatment and neglect

�Sexual abuse of children

�Emotional abuse of children

�Child fatalities

�Family-centered services

�Family preservatio...

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The Child Care Career Course is comprised of 12 comprehensive lessons. They are easy to follow, yet challenging and stimulating at the same time. Each lesson begins with a subject matter preview and objectives, an introductory note from your instructor and a vocabulary builder of new words and terms.

Next comes the reading assignment. Practice exercises help you check and review what you’ve learned. At the end of the lesson is an open-book exam, which you may take online.

Do you love being around children? Have you ever thought about becoming a child care worker or wondered if you could start a home day care business? Child day care management distance learning course can provide you with the information to take the first step toward earning an attractive child care worker salary.

With our child day care management distance learning course, you can learn the key concepts involved in being a child care worker. You could even learn some basic ideas on how t...

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