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

The Pre-Education program was chosen in 2001 as one of the six best community college teacher education
programs in America by Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., an affiliate of the Carnegie Foundation of New York.

The Associate in Arts degree in Child Development requires 60-62 credit hours of course work. Most
course work transfers to four-year schools in Michigan. To determine the transferability of course work
students should consult the transfer guides on file in the Uni...

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This course is designed to teach workers how to deal with the many forms of child abuse. By taking and completing this course, healthcare workers will be made aware of how prevalent child abuse is in our society, and will be given the knowledge needed to identify cases of child abuse and take the necessary steps to ensure that cases of child abuse are dealt with and prevented in a proper manner.

This course is designed to help classroom teachers, school counselors, and other educational personnel gain strategies to reach and teach students who have been affected by stress, trauma, and/or violence. Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of stress and trauma and explore how stress, violence, and trauma affect a student’s learning, cognitive brain development, and social-emotional development. The short and long term consequences of being exposed to stress, trauma, or violence...

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Working with Abused & Neglected Children
Designed to help the learner identify and effectively teach students affected by child abuse and/or neglect, this course covers how to recognize the signs of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and physical and emotional neglect in students. It also discusses the specific factors that exist in families who abuse or neglect their children. A major emphasis in this course is to help the participant understand the special learning needs of abused or n...

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This course provides an overview of the different categories of exceptionality. Students will be introduced to special education laws and their implications for delivery systems, transition plans, and identification and placement procedures.
Topics and Objectives
Philosophical, Historical, and Cultural Foundations of Special Education
Summarize the theories and philosophies that form the basis for special education practice.
Explain how cultural differences impact the identificatio...

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