Identify resources to help children discover, learn, and experience in a natural play environment.
Discover, learn, and experience in a natural play environment! Find resources to help children in early childhood education and child care centers. Identify and leverage tools and materials to create engaging learning experiences for kids.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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