Kindling Creativity: The Role of Early Childhood Education (10 hours)
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10 Clock Hour of Early Childhood Education
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Kindling Creativity: The Role of Early Childhood Education
🌟 Self-Paced Online Courses 🌟 Open Enrollment 🌟Complete Any Time of Day or Night 🌟
🌟 Mobile Friendly 🌟 Meets Instructor-Led Requirements 🌟
🌟 Mobile Friendly 🌟 Meets Instructor-Led Requirements 🌟
10 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education
Course Synopsis:
Do you want to unleash the power of creativity in young children? Do you want to help them explore, experiment, and express themselves in new ways? Do you want to join them in a journey of wonder and discovery? If you answered yes, then this course is for you!
"Kindling Creativity: The Role of Early Childhood Education" is an online course that shows you how to cultivate creativity in yourself and your students. You will learn how to design a learning environment that sparks curiosity, encourages risk-taking, and nurtures imagination. You will also learn how to value creativity as a dynamic process that involves making choices and solving problems, rather than just producing a final product.
"Kindling Creativity: The Role of Early Childhood Education" is an online course that shows you how to cultivate creativity in yourself and your students. You will learn how to design a learning environment that sparks curiosity, encourages risk-taking, and nurtures imagination. You will also learn how to value creativity as a dynamic process that involves making choices and solving problems, rather than just producing a final product.
Topics Covered:
- Understand the Nature of Creativity: Recognize creativity as an attitude rather than a skill, involving the power of imagination, the ability to transcend conventional methods, and the courage to think outside the box.
- Create a Stimulating Environment: Develop strategies to provide children with uninterrupted periods of time to explore and experiment freely, fostering an atmosphere that encourages innovative thinking.
- Design Learning Spaces: Learn how meticulously designed learning spaces that stimulate the senses can significantly enhance creative problem-solving abilities.
- Promote Cognitive Skills: Understand the importance of cognitive skills in enabling children to learn, reason, analyze, and apply knowledge, and how creative play can bolster these skills.
- Apply Vygotsky’s Theory: Understand Lev Vygotsky’s theory that creativity manifests whenever a discovery is made, be it artistic, scientific, or technical, and how every act of discovery entails a creative process.
- Implement Sensory-Enriched Activities: Learn how sensory-enriched activities play a crucial role in stimulating creativity in children and how to implement such activities effectively.
- Foster Collaborative Problem-Solving: Learn how to create an environment where children feel comfortable tackling problems collaboratively, thereby enhancing their creativity.
- Expose Children to Diverse Cultures: Understand how exposing children to diverse cultures can broaden their perspectives and enhance their creativity.
- Utilize Various Mediums for Creative Play: Learn how to use various mediums such as play dough, sand, and water for creative play, fostering children’s creativity, social skills, and emotional development.
- Enhance Narrative Understanding through Storytelling: Understand how storytelling and story retelling can enhance children’s understanding of narratives and foster their creativity.
- Implement Music and Movement Experiences: Learn how music and movement experiences contribute significantly to children’s holistic development, enhancing their motor skills, language skills, social-emotional skills, and cognitive skills.
This is a 10 clock-hour course that is presented in English. The training method is online and self-paced, with instructor engagement. The training platform is mobile friendly, and most students will find that it works successfully on cell phones and tablets.
The information provided in this course is standard practice. Be sure to follow the specific regulations mandated by the state or county for your program.
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Reminder: Enrollment in this course expires in 12 months from the date of payment.
To view a full list of states approvals for clock-hour courses: Click Here for a PDF chart of our state approvals.
Reminder: Enrollment in this course expires in 12 months from the date of payment.
Technical Requirements
This training platform is user friendly and it is expected that the majority of students will find that their computers and mobile devices operate without any complications.
However, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft, and you WILL have issues if you use it to complete online training. Please use a different browser other than Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer will not work to complete this course.
We have provided optional links below where you can download alternate browsers. All browsers are free to download and use on your computer.
However, here are a few things to keep in mind:
- A laptop or PC are recommended for completing online courses
- Most students are able to use mobile devices such as tablets and cell phones 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 internet browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Opera are all acceptable browsers
- Slow internet speed may impact loading time
Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft, and you WILL have issues if you use it to complete online training. Please use a different browser other than Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer will not work to complete this course.
We have provided optional links below where you can download alternate browsers. All browsers are free to download and use on your computer.
Terms of Use
Enrollment and Access to Training
Technical Requirements and Support
Cancellations and Refunds
Course Curriculum and Certificates
- You have access to online courses for 1 year 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:
Monday - Friday 7 am – 8 pm (PT)
Saturday & Sunday 8 am – 8 pm (PT)
Holidays 9 am – 8 pm (PT) - 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.
Technical Requirements and Support
- Internet access is required to complete our courses.
- 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
- Cancellations and refunds requested within 72 hours after enrollment are available for courses/programs that have NOT been accessed.
- Refunds are not available after 72 hours from the date of payment.
- Refunds are not available for courses/programs that have been accessed.
- Once the student has logged in to the course, a refund is no longer available.
- Refunds and cancellations WILL be charged a 20% cancellation fee.
- After 72 hours from the time of purchase, 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.
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Course Curriculum and Certificates
- Course curriculum is developed by Successful Solutions Training in Child Development Instructors
- This course is presented in English.
- Free preview of any course is available by registering for the course and clicking on the "Take a Look! Enroll Later" option
- Coursework is presented via a mobile friendly online training platform.
- There are no textbooks or materials to purchase, all course content is presented online.
- Fully automated courses keep track of your progress and resume to right where you left off.
- Progress through the courses is monitored by instructors and support staff. The courses include online instructor interaction and feedback via discussion boards and assignments.
- The student forum/discussion board allows learners and instructors to connect and collaborate about early learning topics presented in the course.
- We include a wealth of optional resource links for you to explore and further your knowledge about each topic.
- Certificates are provided by email upon successful completion of courses. Trainers will review coursework and send students feedback, as needed, regarding coursework and meeting learning outcomes.
