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What Can You Do With A CDA?
Many of our students ask us, “what can you do with a CDA?” The Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential is a nationally recognized professional credential administered by the Council for Professional Recognition. Obtaining this credential will advance your professional development and show others that you know how to support the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual developmentContinue reading “What Can You Do With A CDA?”

How to Help Children Succeed
This week’s blog comes from our Care Course Child Development and Guidance and has information that will help you help your children succeed.

Indoor Activities For Kids
Are you looking for fun indoor activities for kids and young children in child care or at home? We know that caregivers are always looking for new activities that will spark children’s imagination. Try out some of the below art activities and physical activities for kids, and let us know how they go!

How Do I Use an EIP Award to Pay for Child Care or CDA Training?
All Care Courses are eligible for funding through the State University of New York (SUNY) EIP program. This includes funding for our National CDA training sets, CDA renewal sets, and our NY 30-hours in 9 topic area trainings…
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Course Highlight: Social-Emotional Development in Young Children

This course applies to infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
Learn about the steps that young children follow along the path of social-emotional development. This course covers factors that influence children’s sense of self as well as their interactions with others and approach to learning. Learn how your behavior, positive interactions, and guidance can promote healthy social-emotional development in young children. See the course topics listed below for more information on what is covered.
Social-Emotional Development in Young Children Learning Outcomes: After completing Social-Emotional Development in Young Children you will be able to identify stages of social-emotional development in young children; explain factors that influence children’s skills for interacting with others, and that support their learning and sense of self; describe how children’s early experiences and positive relationships in a child care setting at home and affect development; and discuss ways that your behaviors, attitudes, and positive interactions can promote children’s healthy social-emotional development and positive behavior.
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Care Courses Training
Care Courses offeres distance-learning courses for child care providers and parents. Our professional development clock hours may be used for most US States continuing education inservice requirements and registries, for CDA Certification (Child Development Associate Credential), for CDA Renewal and for NAC Renewal. We are a CDA Gold Standard training organization and have helped thousands of providers complete their CDA and CDA renewal. All our professional development courses give both Clock Hours and IACET CEUs.
Our informative child care training programs can be completed anywhere and at any time. Study at home, at the park, or wherever is most convenient for you. Choose between our CourseBook or Online course formats. Our friendly, knowledgeable instructors offer unlimited free student support by phone or email and are always happy to help!
Early childhood child care training can be fun, interesting, and relevant to your daily work and experience! We’ve been offering professional development classes for over 30 years; we love what we do and truly want to make your experience fantastic.
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