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Kickstart your professional learning with our streamlined competency-based learning plans, designed to sequence online resources for effective classroom practice. These plans help you learn and practice the competencies needed to earn the Early Childhood Educator credential.
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Beginning Education: Early Childcare at Home (English) – MOD1 Strategies for Responsive Caregiving that Help Build Language
The Beginning Education: Early Childcare At Home program is a professional development program specifically designed for home-based child care providers of children from birth to five years. The first module introduces how to create a positive learning environment, respond to children’s signals, support early reading, and use descriptive language throughout the day.
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Teacher Training: “Play with Me” Series
Talk with Me is a three-part series of courses that introduces ways teachers of infants and toddlers can support language development by using descriptive communication, modeling language, listening, and engaging in conversations.
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Teacher Training: “Play with Me” Series Connect with Me: Promoting Social and Emotional Development & Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors – Part 1-5
Connect with Me is a five-part series of courses that introduces ways teachers of infants and toddlers can support children’s social and emotional development by expressing warmth, comforting children in distress, labeling feelings, engaging in back-and-forth play, and using praise.
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Teacher Training: “Play with Me” Series Learn with Me: Promoting Early Cognitive Development – Part 1-3
Learn with Me is a three-part series of courses that introduces ways teachers of infants and toddlers can support children’s cognitive development by using strategies that help children make choices, problem solve, and maintain their attention.
CIRCLE Infant & Toddler Teacher Training: “Play with Me” Series Read with Me: Promoting Early Literacy Development – Part 1-2
Read with Me is a two-part series of courses that introduces teachers of infants and toddlers to key instructional strategies for supporting early literacy development and consider children’s cognitive, linguistic, and physical development in relation to learning to read and write.
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: Setting the Stage for Children’s Talk
Setting the Stage for Children’s Talk introduces ways teachers of pre-K children can extend children’s language through responsiveness, descriptive communication, scaffolding and modeling, and engaging in convsersations, to support children’s language development.
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: English Language Learners: Culture, Language, Instruction
English Language Learners: Culture, Language, Instruction introduces ways teachers of pre-K children who are English language learners can consider linguistic and cultural individuality and extend children’s language through responsive, descriptive communication, scaffolding and modeling, and engaging in conversations, to support children’s language development.
eCIRCLE Professional Development Series: Social and Emotional Learning
Social Emotional Learning introduces ways teachers of pre-K children can express warmth, comfort children in distress, label feelings, engage in back and forth play and use praise to support children’s development of self-concept, self-control, social competence, and social awareness.