Describe new methods to increase the positive emotional climate within a childcare program.
Increase the positive emotional climate within your childcare program with new methods. Find materials and equipment that meet the needs of specific age groups and align with your program's curriculum. Enhance early childhood education and child care centers with our recommendations.Trainings incorporating this outcome
CDA Subject Areas
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Topic Areas
120 hours courses
12 CEUs10 hours courses
5 hours courses
Related Outcomes
- Identify materials and equipment for family childcare programs that meet the needs of specific age groups in both shared or permanent space and align with the programs curriculum
- Identify materials and equipment for center childcare programs that meet the needs of specific age groups in both shared or permanent space and align with the programs curriculum
- Identify materials and equipment for childcare programs that meet the needs of specific age groups in both shared or permanent space and align with the programs curriculum
- Distinguish different families’ expectations of childcare and what they want from the program.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how positive guidance promotes sound social and emotional development
- Give example of a transition plan for children entering, moving within, and leaving the program
- Describe a classroom management plan that promotes positive reinforcement, clear expectations, and consistent implementation.
- Describe positive discipline strategies to use in the classroom.
- Describe the five critical needs for children to develop optimal emotional health
- Describe the meaning of positive discipline in the classroom.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how positive guidance promotes sound social and emotional development.
- Identify a variety of marketing platforms to promote childcare programs.
- Describe how to use the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment for program improvement.
- Demonstrate understanding of developing positive relationships with childcare families
- Recognize informal and formal assessments to plan activities, individualize programs, and improve program quality.
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