Short Description:
Explores the information and skills necessary for operating, managing, and supervising high quality early childhood programs.

Long Description:
The text supports coursework focused on the information and skills necessary for operating, managing, and supervising high quality early childhood programs. Topics include: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) licensing regulations, QRIS and NAEYC standards, establishing program policies, administrative responsibilities, fiscal management, staff supervision and development, program evaluation, family involvement and rights, hiring procedures, health and safety, environments, selection of materials, and community resources. Meets EEC requirements for Director I.

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This is a textbook compiled by Ana R. Leon of West Hills Community College Lemoore. It covers infancy through middle childhood, so additional content would be required to address adolescence.

A series of modules for Alaska Christian College's seminars on Children's Ministries. Includes scans of powerpoint print-outs.

This course will deepen your understanding of cognitive development and suggest leadership practices that support cognitive development. You will learn about cognitive development, learning systems, curriculum planning, effective instruction and understanding and supporting assessment.

Children usually follow predictable patterns in how they grow and learn. Knowing and understanding these patterns allows Preschool teachers to encourage discovery, exploration, experimentation, and problem-solving. These experiences help children learn how to learn. You will learn about cognitive development, interactions that promote learning, engagement, what and how children learn in preschool, exploration and problem solving, planning, inclusion, and embracing ethnicity and culture.

Children usually follow predictable patterns in how they grow and learn. Knowing and understanding these patterns allows Preschool teachers to encourage discovery, exploration, experimentation, and problem-solving. These experiences help children learn how to learn. You will learn about cognitive development, interactions that promote learning, engagement, what and how children learn in preschool, exploration and problem solving, planning, inclusion, and embracing ethnicity and culture.

This lesson plan aims to show how Hand Signals benefit the deaf community.

Communication skills are vital to the overall learning and development of preschool children. In this course, you will learn about communication milestones and what to do if you have concerns about a child’s development. You will also learn strategies to maintain effective communication with families and how to create a communication and language-rich environment.

This book describes approaches to capacity promotion that respond to the complexities and possibilities of communities—at local and country levels. These initiatives challenge established developmental narratives in ECD and international development, and in so doing provide alternative ways for scholars and practitioners in ECD, education, and the broad international development field to enhance capacities.

This Wikibook is about educational psychology—the study of how learning and teaching occur in educational settings.

This project is about Learning Centers: What are learning centers, how they are beneficial for children and teachers. The main goals within learning centers, and how to design appropriate centers sufficiently. Also included are examples and informational videos.

As a Training & Curriculum Specialist, you ensure that the children in your program are offered creative experiences that nurture their curiosity and overall development. You will learn how to help staff plan creative experiences and become more familiar with process and product-oriented activities. Your role in helping staff design creative spaces and how to promote creativity in your workplace will also be addressed.

This resource is to educate others on the importance of cultural competence in special education and the lack of cultural awareness that is currently in special education classrooms. It includes history of special education and the laws surrounding it, the importance of cultural awareness and competence, what the current system is doing and why it does not work and what the future will hopefully look like for culture in special education.

On this page, you will find information related to CHDV 101: Child Growth and Development.

The H5P content was developed by Danielle Savory Seggerson, faculty at Lansing Community College. It is used for all sections of CHDV 101.

“First published in 1916, this classic continues to influence contemporary educational thought. Considered one of the great American philosophers, Dewey grapples with the nature of knowledge and learning as well as formal education’s place, purpose, and process within a democratic society.”

This source is intended for pre-service teachers to learn about typical v. atypical development in children and teens and the effects of disabilities and abuse or neglect. 

Word Count: 13085

ISBN: 978-1-998755-71-4

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An objective in some Child Development courses is to examine the value of guidance and interaction strategies. The Discipline Interview Assignment helps students reflect on their own experiences. Students are also able to compare their experiences with what they are learning in the course.