2020 CDA

30 hours with Google Classroom Access

Professional Development Specialist: Jennifer Edwards-Saul

CDA Prep 100.3 Health and Program Standards: Core competencies for childcare programs 

This course is designed for the Child Development Associate who is seeking to take a mini-course while fulfilling the content needed to obtain their CDA. This training will cover topics on Program Management, Healthy, Health in the Curriculum, Safety Precautions, and Nutritional Practices. Understanding the role of the early childcare professional will be the foundation of each content unit. The training format and learning expectations will focus on competency topics and functional areas as needed to support the outlines to develop competency statements and meet requirements for CDA Credential. 

To understand the role of a childcare professional and how this role relates to regulations, mandates, professional guidelines, and best practices of an established profession

To understand how health standards, policy, and procedures support program management. To discuss national health standards and the importance of using policy and procedures to care and promote health and well-being.  

As a result of the training, interactions, and reflective reading the participants will be able to develop and provide methods to promote safety, healthy learning environments.

As a result of the training, interactions, assignments, and reflective reading responses participants will be able to use curricula to teach young children about good nutrition and practices that promote well-being. 

As a result of this training, the participants will examine one’s role in maintaining a professional commitment and contribution to the early childcare profession. They will examine the strategies for creating and maintaining a safe, healthy, and well-run purposeful program that responds to children, families, and others, in alignment with the best practice guidelines.

Attendance and Participation: Attendees must register and attend each training session to be awarded the certificate of training. Attendance must be above the 85% rate to be issued a certificate and considered as part of the cohort group. Participation is required to meet the learning objects, as sets to meet the training goals. Withdrawal forms are required along with notification of leave of absence from each session. Certificates will only be given to those who are registered, enrolled, and attended the allotted hours. There will be no refunds after registration and enrollment. 

Goals: The CDA candidate will understand early childhood as a professional practice that is guided by mandates, theory, research, and professional organizations that has shape best practices for caring for young children; the CDA candidate will review their practices for planning, organizing, and maintaining environments that are safe, healthy and interactive; the CDA candidate will understand early childhood development and explore how to develop teaching practices for observing,  and recording how children learn and grow; the CDA candidate will examine methods for using data to plan daily interactions to support early childhood development.

Objectives: Use self-reflection to explore their role in a profession that is guided by mandates, standards, theory, and research; to describe the importance of planning, creating, and promoting safe, healthy practices, create a professional code and foundation for caring for young children; to demonstrate the ability to use observation and assessment to study, plan and report how children learn and grow; to be able to plan creative learning environments, meaningful interactions, and developmental activities; to construct methods for supporting the development of children’s social and emotional competency and design methods for meeting the needs of all children and families; to build and report their efforts for advancing children’s physical and intellectual well-being, and to outline a framework for building positive relationships with children families and professional partners. 

How To Register For This Class:

1. Click here to fill out the Registration Form.
2. Pay for your class on this page.
3. You will be contacted via email with further instructions.

Payment: Cash, Check, EIP Awards, must be confirmed before the start date of the class. 

Times and Dates: TBS to be Scheduled.

Prerequisites: Meet the requirements as outlined by the CDA Council. 

Participants are responsible for their CPR and First Aid certificates cost books and necessary supplies.