Texas Child-Care Pre-Service Module 2 (8 hours)
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Texas Child-Care Pre-Service Module 2
Child Development and Early Learning
Child Development and Early Learning
This course meets 8 hours of pre-service training requirements for those providing care to children in child-care centers in Texas.
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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. |
The early years in a child's life are profoundly important. The social, emotional, physical, linguistic, and cognitive experiences a child has during this time lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning.This course is designed to provide an overview of topics related to growth and development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. As an early childhood educator, an awareness of the developmental ages and stages is important in understanding the abilities of children and forming reasonable expectations of children’s behavior and skills. We will discuss how to plan developmentally-appropriate activities for a group of children based on their ages and individual needs, and describe the role of caregivers in guiding and directing the child’s learning process both indoors and out. This course will also discuss the importance of the literacy center along with quality activities to foster early literacy.
This course includes the following topics, as required for the initial pre-service training (Standard 746.1305):
CDA Competency Goals: Understanding principles of child development and learning (8 hours)
Texas Core Competency:
This course includes the following topics, as required for the initial pre-service training (Standard 746.1305):
- Developmental Stages of Children
- Understanding Early Childhood Brain Development
- Age-Appropriate Activities for Children
CDA Competency Goals: Understanding principles of child development and learning (8 hours)
Texas Core Competency:
- Child Growth and Development (4 hours)
- Learning Environment, Planning Framework, Curriculum and Standards (4 hours)
Course Agenda
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Part 1: Growth and Development - 3 hours
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Part 2: Curriculum and Learning Environments - 3 hours
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Part 3: Fostering Literacy - 2 hours
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Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize development as a continuum with identifiable basic milestones
- Identify developmental needs of infants, toddlers and preschoolers, and school-agers to age eight
- Describe early brain development
- Describe environments which nurture children and stimulate learning
- Plan developmentally appropriate activities for children in a variety of settings
- Identify the stages of language development that promote early literacy skills
- State important factors in deciding what to include in a literacy center
- Describe how literacy centers develop phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and vocabulary skills.
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.
