New Online Courses for June 2012

ELC – 227

Planning Transitions to Meet Challenging Behavior

Course Begins June 5– Ends on June 28, 2012

Registration ends on May 31, 2012

10 Hours or 1 CEU

Transitions can be fun and successful times for children and teachers, or they can be challenging. This course provides teachers with strategies to put into place to help children transition more easily. Children’s challenging behavior during transition time may be related to how program staff structure, schedule and implement transitions. The goal of this course is to provider teacher of young children with tools that focus on four concepts:

(1) Scheduling ideas that minimizes transitions and maximizes the time children spend engaged in developmentally appropriate behaviors, (2) A plan for success, (3) Daily transitional steps and (4) Individualized transitional strategies. This is an article based course, no books are required.

***Target age group Toddler –Pre-K

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ELC – 340

Learn and Play the Green Way!

Course Begins – June 11- Ends on July 20, 2012

Registration ends on May 23, 2012

20 Hours or 2 CEUs

This summer green up the weeks ahead with innovative, affordable, activities and materials! This course is designed to provider teachers with ideas to create fun hands-on activities that are made from reusable materials. The ideas are organized by age group for infants-prek. The activities benefit children’s early learning by promoting sensory perception and development in physical; social and emotional; cognitive; and language and communication areas. You will find over 100 creative and clever ideas to repurpose common safe household objects into entertaining educational materials. The book for this course is “Learn and Play the Green Way”.

***Target age group Infants-Pre-K

Registration is limited!!! Registration ends on May 23, 2012

To register, click here.