Building strong relationships with families is essential for understanding and supporting every child’s unique strengths, needs, and development. This course equips child care providers with strategies to conduct family assessments, plan effective conferences, and respond to family concerns with empathy and cultural sensitivity. Participants will explore guidance techniques for fostering self-regulation and positive social-emotional development, while also examining the influence of culture, genetics, parenting styles, and community on a child’s growth. By completing this training, providers will gain confidence in partnering with families, addressing challenges, and creating inclusive environments that support each child’s success.
*Illinois Providers: This training has been approved to align to ECE Gateways Credential, ECE FCR6: Selects and implements culturally and linguistically appropriate procedures designed to gather information about children and families, including child and family strengths, priorities, concerns, and needs, and collaboratively integrates this information into child, family, and program goals.*
By the end of this training, the learner will be able to:
- Identify environment and genetic influences on development.
- Identify what to avoid during a conference.
- List methods to help you plan a conference.
- Recognize the importance of consistency, continuity, and responsiveness in supporting pro-social behaviors in children.
- Describe positive discipline strategies to use in the classroom.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how positive guidance promotes sound social and emotional development.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to foster self-regulation skills in children.
- Identify common tools and strategies in completing a comprehensive family assessment.
- Recognize strategies for effective conferences with families.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how the community in which a child lives influences development
- Identify parenting styles and the influence those styles have on child development
- Criteria to earn CEUs:
- Certificates are awarded when the following criteria have been met by the learner:
- Class has been paid in full
- All material has been reviewed
- All review questions and final test have been completed with a passing score of 80% or higher.
- Learning Assessment Method:
- Learners will be assessed through questions after every section is completed. Learners will not be
allowed to proceed to the next section of the training until all questions have been answered correctly.
Learners will be presented with a final test composed of true/false and multiple choice questions.
Upon successful completion of the training, learners will receive their certificate by email.
- Learning Methodology:
- Online material will be presented in the form of slides,
accompanied with speech. Videos will be used to demonstrate ideas and concepts. Charts and tables
will be used for illustration.
- Logistics/Required Technology:
- A stable internet connection is required for the completion of this course. Users are highly encouraged to take their online course on Google Chrome on either a laptop or desktop computer. Speakers and/or headphones are also required to hear speech.
- Payment Policy:
- Payments need to be made in full. No refunds will be issued after starting the class.
- Proprietary or conflict of interest disclosure:
- Unless otherwise stated in the course description none of H & H subject matter experts and editor has any conflict or proprietary interests related to the material they prepared in this course.
- Support Services:
- Please visit our contact us page
You are purchasing a session of an online training that includes online assessments. Your certificate will be emailed to you once you pass the final exam with a passing grade of 80%.
Your certificate will bear the name you provided to us when you signed up. For support and questions regarding the material presented in this class please contact us at info@childcareed.com. Please consult our frequently asked questions page for other questions or feel free to contact us.
No prerequisites are required for the completion of this course.
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