Unit 1: Providing for Children’s Safety
Safety is a major issue in all early education centers and homes. Providing for Children’s Safety is a 10 hours course designed to assist child care providers with the safety concepts and issues they face everyday. Included will be information on written policies and responsibilities for carrying them out.
Unit 2: Providing for Children’s Health
Health is a major issue in all early education centers and homes. Providing for Children’s Health is a 10 hours course designed to assist child care providers with health concepts and issues they face everyday. Included will be information on written policies and responsibilities for carrying them out.
Unit 3: Providing an Environment for Learning
Providing an appropriate environment for learning is essential for an early education program. Providing an Environment for Learning is a 15 hour course designed to assist child care providers in creating an environment that promotes learning and development in all areas. It assists child care providers in evaluating their environment for development, guidance, and to encourage independence and allow for choices.
Unit 4: Child Growth and Development Concepts
Child Growth and Development Concepts is a 30 hour course designed to assist child care providers in gaining knowledge and skill in understanding that successful early experiences depends on applying basic concepts in child development. This course provides knowledge and skills necessary to effectively work with children birth through age 5 and children of all ages who have a variety of special needs. Additionally it provides information regarding leading theories of child development.
Unit 5: Ensuring Developmentally Appropriate Practice
Ensuring Developmentally Appropriate Practice is a 25 hour course designed to assist child care providers in gaining knowledge and skills to promote physical, language, cognitive, creative, social, and emotional growth in young children and an understanding of how to utilize the Oklahoma Early Learning Guidelines.
Unit 6: Guiding Children
Guiding children includes all actions adults do to positively influence behavior. Guiding Children is a 15 hour course designed to provide child care providers with skills and knowledge to help children learn self control and socially acceptable behavior and to effectively create an environment where positive guidance, both direct and indirect, are practiced.
Unit 7: Involving Parents and the Community
Involving Parents and the Community is a 10 hour course designed to assist child care providers in gaining the skills and knowledge to promote family and community involvement and partnerships within the early childhood program
Unit 8: Program Plans and Record Keeping
Developing Program Plans is a 10 hour course designed to assist child care providers in gaining knowledge and skills to provide developmentally appropriate curriculum plans based on principles of child development, and to assist child care providers with skills and knowledge necessary to ensure proper documentation within the early childhood program.
Unit 9: Developing as an Early Care Professional
Developing as a Child Care Professional is a 5 hour course designed to assist the child care provider with skills and knowledge to continually improve their job performance associated with becoming an Early Childhood Professional.
Unit 10: Putting it all Together
Putting it all Together is a 15 hour course designed to take the child care provider through the final steps in completing the professional portfolio and applying for a National CDA or CCP Credential.