Identify resources to help children discover, learn, and experience in a natural play environment.
Discover, learn, and experience in a natural play environment with our resources! Our central objective is to help children explore and grow through hands-on play. Join us to identify the best resources in early childhood education and child care centers.Trainings incorporating this outcome
Proficiency Level
120 hours courses
12 CEUs2 hours courses
Related Outcomes
- Participants will be able to identify resources to help children discover, learn, and experience in a natural play environment.
- Identify strategies to promote play in the early childhood learning environment.
- Identify common interaction strategies to help promote a positive classroom environment for young children.
- Demonstrate understanding of how learning occurs in children and the role of play in learning
- Identify strategies for the child care provider that will promote successful child development. Identify strategies for working with children with special needs
- Identify the role of play in the early childhood environment
- Identify characteristics of project based learning in the classroom environment and curriculum
- Identify the components of a safe and healthy family childcare environment for children
- Identify different types of play in children ages 2 to 5.
- Identify factors that influence learning in a child's physical environment.
- Identify and use community resources to support learning.
- Define resilience and identify ways it helps young children overcome toxic stressors.
- Identify the role of play in the early childhood environment.
- Identify different learning styles of young children
- Identify factors that may influence learning for a child in the preschool environment.
- Identify factors that may influence learning for a child in the family child care environment.
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