Participants will be able to identify resources to help children discover, learn, and experience in a natural play environment.
Discover resources to promote natural play and learning experiences for children in the early childhood education and child care center environments. Identify strategies to create an engaging and stimulating play environment that supports children's development and growth. Access valuable resources to enhance children's learning through play in a natural and dynamic setting.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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2 hours courses
0.2 CEUsRelated Outcomes
- Identify resources to help children discover, learn, and experience in a natural play environment.
- Identify common interaction strategies to help promote a positive classroom environment for young children.
- Identify strategies to promote play in the early childhood learning environment.
- Participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how to create a natural outdoor environment that includes different colors, sounds, textures, and scents
- Demonstrate understanding of how learning occurs in children and the role of play in learning
- Identify the components of a safe and healthy family childcare environment for children
- Identify different types of play in children ages 2 to 5.
- The participant will demonstrate knowledge and understanding the major milestones, typical behaviors and learning processes of children birth to 13 years of age
- Identify the role of play in the early childhood environment
- Identify factors that influence learning in a child's physical environment.
- Identify and use community resources to support learning.
- 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 family child care environment.
- Identify factors that may influence learning for a child in the preschool environment.
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