Courses

  • Building Positive Relationships in the School-Age Classroom

    20 Lessons

      3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will show participants how to create a caring classroom community where children feel supported, safe, included and known in their school-age classrooms. School-age classrooms need to be active, engaging places where instruction centers on student thinking and where students are able to take risks and jump into learning at hand. The focus will be on showing participants how to provide rich opportunities to work together, grow ideas, revise children's thinking and construct meaning.

    • Conflict Resolution: Riding Through the Storm

      27 Lessons

        3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course was designed to help prepare the child care provider deal with conflict in the early childhood program. A child care program can be a hectic and stressful environment, both for child care professionals and for parents of children enrolled in the facility. Established conflict resolution and dispute mediation policies, paired with good communication, can help ensure an open and healthy dialogue between all parties.

      • Cornerstones of Quality: Safety, Health and Nutrition

        18 Lessons
        • Cornerstones of Quality: Safety, Health and Nutrition - $20.00

        3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - In this course we will focus on how to create an environment that will keep infants and children safe and healthy in child care. Information is in aligned with new licensing requirements.

      • Creating a Landscape to Learning: Appropriate Indoor & Outdoor Learning Environments

        14 Lessons

          3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will provide participants with knowledge of how an infant/toddler learning environment should be designed in order to enhance relationships and learning by developing competencies through movement, exploration, and appropriate challenges.

        • Creating A Positive Social Emotional Climate in Infant/Toddler Care Settings

          16 Lessons

            3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will help participants to understand that when they develop a positive social and emotional climate in the care setting and provides nurturing relationships with young children, the young child feels more secure in the environment and more likely to feel comfortable learning and growing. Such relationships are likely to lead to a more emotionally secure and independent child, which will foster success in school.

          • E-3 Dimensions of Quality Online

            11 Lessons
            • E-3 Dimensions of Quality Online - $30.00

            5 clock hours (0.5 CEUs) - Take a look at this snapshot of the 2015 ECERS3 Conference. This Course includes the video recorded during the main presentation and all four breakout sessions. This course is designed for students who were unable to attend the conference, or for those who attended and would like the ability to access and review the conference materials.

          • Entry Level Child Care Training (2018)

            77 Lessons
            • Entry Level Child Care Training (ELCCT) - $20.00

            ELCCT is an introduction to child care. It provides new or future child care professionals with knowledge needed to provide quality care for young children. NOTE: ELCCT cannot be used to meet level or renewal criteria for the Oklahoma Director’s Credential (ODC). It will only count one time to meet Professional Development Ladder (PDL) requirements.

          • Encouraging Peer Interactions in Preschool

            18 Lessons

              3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will provide participants with strategies for supporting the development of peer interactions in the preschool classroom. It will also provide ways for teachers to help children learn anger management skills and problem solving skills.

            • Health and Safety Training for Family Child Care Homes and Large Child Care Homes

              18 Lessons

              Description: This video meets the licensing requirements for Health and Safety training per 340:110-3-85, Licensing Requirements for Family Child Care Homes and Large Family Child Care Homes (11-1-16). It covers a variety of topics which will help you in caring for children.

            • Homelessness and Young Children: Dealing with Trauma

              14 Lessons

                3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will help participants to define homelessness according to the McKinney-Vento definition and to discover how being homeless affects the child's health and development. Participants will also be provided guidance strategies to support young children experiencing homelessness.

              • Homelessness and Young Children: Education and Services

                13 Lessons

                  3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course is for administrators of early childhood centers. It will provide them with information and best practices to facilitate collaboration between child care programs and community organizations to increase the provision of services to families with young children experiencing homelessness.

                • Let's Get Physical: Movement and the Young Child

                  26 Lessons

                    3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - In this course, we will learn how to incorporate moderate to vigorous physical activity in early learning environments, both indoor and outdoor.

                  • Literacy in Action: Developmental Writing

                    14 Lessons
                    • Literacy In Action: Developmental Writing - $25.00

                    4 clock hours (0.4 CEUs) - Teachers play a critical role in emergent writing. This class will explore the essential components of developmental writing as well as interactive strategies that promote positive experiences with writing. Participants will also learn ways to incorporate daily writing experiences throughout the preschool classroom.

                  • Meeting the Challenge: Effective Strategies for Dealing With Challenging Behavior in School-Age Children

                    16 Lessons

                      3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will provide school-age providers with the skills they need to manage a child's feelings that cause them to act out. They will be taught guidance skills that teach children how to get along with others, how to express their feelings with words, and how to problem solve in a positive way.

                    • Out-of-School Time Entry Level Training (OST-ELT)

                      106 Lessons
                      • Out-of-School Time Entry Level Training (OST-ELT) - $20.00

                      20 clock hours – This course is an entry level instruction to working with children in out-of-school time settings like after school programs or summer camps. Generally, children in this setting are three years old and older and are currently enrolled in or have completed pre-kindergarten. Participants will learn about effective communication and positive interactions with the children in their care as well as how to plan and develop appropriate activities and learning environments.

                    • Positive Guidance: Helping Children Learn Self-Discipline

                      13 Lessons

                        3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will provide participants with knowledge on a relationship-based approach to prevent and manage challenging behavior more effectively, creating a more enjoyable learning environment. The goal of positive guidance is to develop children's self-control, encourage children to assume responsibility, and assist children in making thoughtful decisions.

                      • Reducing the Risk of SIDS/SUID in Child Care

                        28 Lessons

                          3 clock hours (0.3 CEUs) - This course will prepare child care providers to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID) in family home, group home, and child care center settings by using safe sleep practices recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and Oklahoma child care licensing. It will also help them create a written policy on implementing safe sleep practices in the program that they can share and model with the families they serve. *This training meets the Child Care Services-Licensing requirement for safe sleep training.