EarlyEdU Courses Remix

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EarlyEdU Course Remix!

These courses are the Professional Learning Editions of the EarlyEdU coursework, with new pacing, new assignment types, and a new feedback-forward grading model. This newly developed suite of ECE course resources aligns with the WA state and NAEYC ECE professional competencies. They were developed from the original suite of EarlyEdU coursework with additions from the Cultivate Learning Trauma-Informed Care Modules and other training materials. Each course has two discrete 8-session parts focusing on foundations and contexts in Part 1 and application in Part 2.

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The Developing Child (TDC)

Online

The Developing Child is a two-part series that builds foundational knowledge of child development from birth to age 5 in the context of families and community. It combines research-based theory with reflective, practical application to support responsive early childhood practice.

EarlyEdU origin course: Child Development: Brain Building (CDBB).

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TDC Part 1: Foundations & Context

Course Outcomes

  • Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:
  • Demonstrate knowledge of core concepts of child and brain development.
  • Reflect on your own development and apply new ideas to your understanding.
  • Create activities and plan interactions to support children’s development.
  • Discuss and describe the effect of individual differences and family, program, and socio-cultural contexts on development.
  • Develop a developmental resource portfolio for families that supports five protective factors.

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TDC Part 2: Observation & Application

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of brain development and the developmental progressions of children ages birth to 5 in physical, language, social-emotional, and cognitive areas.
  • Identify children’s developmental progressions as expressed through their behavior in their environments.
  • Identify, create, and revise learning activities and environments for young children.
  • Plan adult-child interactions that support children’s developmental progressions in physical, language, social-emotional, and cognitive domains.
  • Apply strategies to build positive relationships with and between children and families.

Guiding Child Behavior (GCB)

Online

This two-part series focuses on increasing educators’ knowledge and skill in providing Positive Behavior Support (PBS) as an approach to preventing and addressing challenging behavior in children from birth to age five.

EarlyEdU origin courses: Child Guidance (in-person) and Positive Behavioral Support for Young Children (online).

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GCB Part 1: Foundations & Context

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Reflect on ways that your own biases and experiences shape how you interpret children’s behavior
  • Practice communicating with families in ways that build mutual respect and trust with a focus on positive goals that support a child’s development and learning
  • Identify strategies for building positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues
  • Identify, evaluate, and plan for learning environments and adult-child interactions that support children’s social relationships, emotional and behavioral health, and self-regulation
  • Recognize, plan, and enact evidence-based, systematic social skills teaching strategies that support children’s social and emotional development and prevent and address challenging behaviors

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GCB Part 2: Applications

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Explain Positive Behavior Support as an approach to addressing challenging behavior
  • Assess the form and function of children’s challenging behaviors
  • Develop an individual behavior support plan based on observational data
  • Plan for ongoing formative assessment of children’s progress

Language and Early Literacy (LEL)

Online

This course is a two-part series about how children’s language and literacy skills develop and how these skills lay a foundation for later reading success. We focus on building the educators’ capacity to respond to the unique needs of children who are multilingual learners, birth to age 5.

EarlyEdU origin courses: Supporting Multilingual Learners and Supporting Language and Literacy Development in Preschool.

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LEL Part 1: Foundations and Context

Course Outcome

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Identify strategies you can use to partner with families who speak more than one language
  • Describe the cultures and languages represented in your community
  • Recognize that there are different ways that young children learn language across content areas and that instructional decisions should be responsive to how children learn
  • Analyze and apply knowledge of first and second language development to identify and implement individualized, specific strategies that promote the growth and abilities of children who are multilingual learners, birth to age five
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the 5 key areas of preschool language and literacy that are foundational to later reading success Vocabulary, Narrative, Print Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, and Early Writing

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LEL Part 2: Applications

Course Outcome

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Explore 3 evidence-based practices for each of the 5 key areas that support children’s language and literacy development in systematic and explicit ways
  • Practice observing and identifying the 5 key areas of high-quality language and literacy instruction across a wide variety of preschool classrooms
  • Practice planning for and implementing the key practices in their own classroom
  • Reflect on their own practice and receive feedback from their instructor and peers
  • Create a plan for improvement based on feedback, reflection, and in response to individual needs of children

COMING SOON! Health, Safety, and Professional Practice (HSPP)

Online

This course is a two-part series about how children’s language and literacy skills develop and how these skills lay a foundation for later reading success. We focus on building the educators’ capacity to respond to the unique needs of children who are multilingual learners, birth to age 5.

EarlyEdU origin courses: Supporting Multilingual Learners and Supporting Language and Literacy Development in Preschool.

COMING SOON! Observation, Assessment, and Curriculum (OAC)

Online

This 15-week course integrates Observation, Assessment, and Curriculum into a cohesive learning sequence. Participants will learn how to plan and implement effective systems of ongoing observation and assessment for children from birth to age five and use child-level and group-level data to design, adapt, and improve curriculum and teaching practices.

EarlyEdU origin course: Child Observation and Assessment.