Texas Child-Care Pre-Service Module 1 (8 hours)
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Texas Child-Care Pre-Service Module 1
Healthy Practices in Early Childhood Education
Healthy Practices in Early Childhood Education
This course meets the initial 8 hours of pre-service training requirements for those providing care to children in child-care centers in Texas.
Please note: Module 1 must be completed before you start working.
Modules 2 and 3 must be completed within your first 90 days of work.
Modules 2 and 3 must be completed within your first 90 days of work.
This course is designed to teach some of the basic procedures of cleanliness and infection control for keeping children and yourself healthy. As an early learning professional, you must be familiar with and understand the regulations. Ensuring the children’s health and safety is always your primary responsibility as an early childhood professional. Parents must be confident that their children will be safe in our programs. Supervision of the children is the most important of all expectations when working in an early childhood program. Supervision of children involves your full attention and participation in the activities and interactions that take place in the program’s facility, the classroom, on the playground and on field trips.
This course includes the following topics, as required for the initial pre-service training (Standard 746.1305):
CDA Competency Goals: Planning a safe and healthy learning environment (8 hours)
Texas Core Competency: Health, Safety and Nutrition (8 hours)
This course includes the following topics, as required for the initial pre-service training (Standard 746.1305):
- Immunizations
- Supervision
- Safety practices
- Shaken Baby Syndrome
- Safe Sleep Practices/Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Understanding the Spread of Disease
CDA Competency Goals: Planning a safe and healthy learning environment (8 hours)
Texas Core Competency: Health, Safety and Nutrition (8 hours)
Course Agenda
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Healthy Practices (Part 1) - 4 hours
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Healthy Practices (Part 2) - 4 hours
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Learning Outcomes:
- Identify a healthy physical environment for children, including procedures for health, safety, and sanitation
- Identify signs of and care for basic childhood illnesses and injuries
- State what a communicable disease is
- Identify why children in the child care setting have more illnesses
- Explain the techniques of infection control and the need for using universal precautions all the time
- Recall proper procedures for hand washing
- State the importance of cleaning and disinfecting
- Discuss the importance of safe environments and describe a safe environment for all children
- Identify potential hazards in the indoor and outdoor environments
- Reduce the risk of fall injuries through control of the environment and teaching appropriate behaviors
- Explain the hazards related to drowning and how to prevent drowning
- List examples of ways you can support children's physical development
- Identify why nutrition education is important
- Identify activities that you can plan to promote healthy eating habits
- Identify food handling and preparation regulations that you find challenging to follow
- Summarize executive function as it relates to cooking
- Examine fine and gross motor skills as they relate to cooking
- Create a sample healthy lesson plan
Technical Requirements:
- Laptop or PC
- Most students are able to use mobile devices such as tablets to complete courses. However, each device is different, and an individual's skill level with the device may determine their success with using a mobile device.
- Recommended web browser: Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge, Safari and Firefox are other acceptable browsers.
- Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft, and you may have issues if you use it to take training.
- Make sure you’re using a current operating system (for example, Windows 10 or Apple OS).
- Outdated operating systems may cause technical difficulties.
- Slow internet speed may impact loading time.
- Videos may require Adobe Flash Player.
Terms of Use
- You have access to online courses for 6 months from the date of payment.
- For immediate access to courses at the time of payment, enroll at our sister site www.myececlass.com.
- When enrolling on our home page at www.cdastars.com, the information to access the online course will be sent to the email address provided during enrollment hours.
- New Enrollments Are Set-Up During the Following Times (MDT):
Monday - Friday 9 am – 10 pm
Saturday & Sunday 10 am – 10 pm
Holidays 11 am – 10 pm - Registrations that are submitted at www.cdastars.com after enrollment hours will be processed the next morning. You will receive an email with information to access the course.
- Check your email for instructions to start the training. Click on the link in the email to access the course.
- Internet access is required. There are no text books for the training. The coursework is done completely online.
- Some students may find that they need to download or update Shockwave, Flash player or Java.
- Some students may find that they have to update their internet browser, this is most often the case when trying to use Internet Explorer. We recommend Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome for the best results. Our student support staff is happy to assist students with troubleshooting should you encounter technical issues, and will provide common suggestions for solving problems that occur when normal browser maintenance or application updates need to occur.
- Cancellations and refunds requested within 72 hours after enrollment are available for courses/programs that have NOT been accessed. Refunds and Cancellations will be charged a 20% cancellation fee.
- Once you log in and start a course, a refund is not available. After 72 hours, the payment credit can be transferred to a different training or to a new student if the training was not started by the original student for up to 30 days after enrollment.
- Refunds are not available after 72 hours from the date of payment.
- Refunds are not available for courses/programs that have been started.
- Our courses may, or may not, meet annual training requirements in your state. Please provide us with your state, and any State registry ID number, and if we are able to record your completed training with your state, we will. In some cases, for annual state credit, you will need to submit the certificate to the appropriate registry and they may or may not award annual credit. Providing a State Registry number to us does not guarantee that your state will approve the training for annual continuing education credit. Many states have QRIS systems that require specific courses to be completed for annual or in-service training. Do not enroll in this course for the purpose of completing a state specific mandated course without first verifying exactly what course requirements need to be met.
- For Washington State students, completed courses are recorded in MERIT Monday through Friday, throughout the day continuously, between 8 am and 3 PM. If you complete your training in the evening or over the weekend, it will be recorded on the next business day during those hours.
- During the last two weeks of December, expect longer processing times for enrollment and certificates due to the high volume of enrollments and completed trainings during the year end rush. We recommend enrolling and completing your training prior to the end of December whenever possible.
- Enrollment expires in 6 months from the date of payment for all pre-service courses, including the Texas pre-service and Child Care Basics.
