Childcare Courses in Illinois - IL

CDA Preschool Credential

The CDA Preschool Credential is a 120-hour, self-paced online training designed for educators working with children ages 3–5 in a center-based preschool s...

CDA Family Child Care Credential

The CDA Family Child Care Credential is a 120-hour, self-paced online training designed for educators working with children birth to age 5 in a family child ...

CDA Infant/Toddler Credential

The CDA Infant/Toddler Credential is a 120-hour, self-paced online training designed for educators working with children ages birth-36 months in a center-bas...

Birth to Five CDA Credential with Portfolio Review

The Birth to Five CDA Credential with Portfolio Review is a dynamic 120-hour, self-paced online training designed to help early childhood educators meet the CDA...

CDA Family Child Care Credential with Portfolio Review

The CDA Family Child Care Credential with Portfolio Review is a 120-hour, self-paced online training designed for educators working with children birth to age 5...

CDA Home Visitor Credential Birth to 5

Embark on a journey of home-visiting mastery with our Home Visitor CDA Credential Birth to 5 Training! Get ready to empower families, foster connections, and ma...

CDA Infant/Toddler Credential with Portfolio Review

The CDA Infant/Toddler Credential with Portfolio Review is a 120-hour, self-paced online training for early childhood educators working with infants and toddler...

CDA Preschool Credential with Portfolio Review

The CDA Preschool Credential with Portfolio Review is a 120-hour, self-paced online training designed for early childhood educators working with children ages 3...

CDA Family Child Care Renewal

Empower your expertise and secure your place at the forefront of family child care excellence with our comprehensive CDA Family Child Care Renewal course, desig...

CDA Infant/Toddler Renewal

Embark on a journey to nurture the youngest minds with our dynamic CDA Infant/Toddler Renewal course, meticulously crafted to empower child care professionals i...

CDA Preschool Renewal

Reignite your passion for preschool education with our dynamic CDA Preschool Renewal course, crafted to reaffirm your expertise and dedication to shaping the br...

9 Hour Communication Course

This course is designed for child care professionals as an introduction to the basic concepts of developing strong communication skills when working in a child ...

Roots & Resilience: Understanding What Shapes a Child

Understanding how cultural, familial, biological, and environmental influences shape a child’s development is essential for creating inclusive, supportive, an...

Family Connections: Creating Inclusive Relationships

Building strong, respectful partnerships with families is at the heart of high-quality early childhood care. This training equips child care providers with stra...

Planning for Every Child: Responsive Strategies in Action

To create truly inclusive early learning environments, child care providers must plan with each child’s unique needs, language, and background in mind. This c...

Family Voices Matter: Tools for Meaningful Collaboration

Effective communication and collaboration with families are essential to fostering trust, understanding, and equitable outcomes in early childhood programs. Thi...

Healthy Starts: Safety, Nutrition, and Wellness in Child Care

Child care providers play a vital role in maintaining environments that support children's health, safety, and well-being. This course explores key practices su...

From Play to Planning: Building Culturally Competent, Child-Centered Curriculum

High-quality early childhood education requires more than just a set of activities—it demands thoughtful integration of developmental standards, evidence-base...

Tracking Progress, Shaping Futures: Observation & Assessment Skills

Accurate observation and effective assessment are essential for understanding each child’s unique strengths, needs, and progress. In this course, child care p...

Beyond the Classroom: Connecting Families to Essential Services

Child care providers play a vital role in connecting families to the resources they need to thrive. This course gives you the tools to identify, select, and pro...

The Science of Growing Up: Typical and Atypical Development

Child care providers play a vital role in supporting children’s healthy growth, making it essential to understand both typical and atypical development. This ...

Recognize, Respond, Respect: Supporting Diverse Learners

Child care providers play a critical role in identifying and supporting the individual needs of young children, making observation, assessment, and inclusive co...

Safe and Sound: Creating Healthy Environments for Every Child

Ensuring a safe and healthy environment is essential for every child’s growth, especially for those with chronic health needs. This training equips child care...

History, Policy, and Practice in ECE

Child care providers need a clear grasp of where our field comes from, how it works today, and how personal values shape daily decisions with children and famil...

Privacy Matters: Documentation and Observation in Early Learning

Maintaining accurate records and safeguarding confidentiality are essential skills for child care providers, ensuring trust, professionalism, and compliance wit...

Creating Engaging and Meaningful Learning Experiences

Child care providers play a vital role in creating environments where children can thrive through purposeful play, choice, and independence. This training explo...

Creating Environments that Nurture Growth and Community

A well-designed environment plays a powerful role in how children learn, explore, and connect with others. In this training, child care providers will learn how...

Creating Safe & Healthy Child Care Environments

Keeping children healthy and safe is the foundation of quality early childhood care. This course equips child care providers with the knowledge to identify and ...

Growing the Whole Child: Health, Emotions & Early Learning

This comprehensive course helps child care providers understand how emotional, social, cognitive, and physical development are deeply interconnected in early ch...

Connections That Count: Building Relationships in Child Care

Strong relationships are the foundation of children’s healthy development and positive behavior, making it essential for child care providers to understand ho...

Culture, Communication, and Collaboration in Assessment

High-quality assessment in early childhood education goes beyond checklists—it requires cultural sensitivity, accurate observations, and meaningful family eng...

Wellness in Action: Teaching Healthy Habits to Children

Food, movement, and cultural connections can be powerful tools for teaching children how to live healthy, active lives. In this course, you’ll discover how to...

Legal & Ethical Essentials in Child Care

Today’s providers need more than good intentions—they need clear standards and a reliable process for acting on them. This course translates regulations, pr...

Environments That Inspire Independence and Exploration

This training empowers child care providers with practical strategies to design nurturing, inclusive environments that promote emotional health, independence, a...

Engaging Families for Child Success

Building strong relationships with families is essential for understanding and supporting every child’s unique strengths, needs, and development. This course ...

Equity-Centered Communication in ECE

Child care providers need confident, culturally responsive communication to build trust with families and work effectively on teams. This course covers two-way ...

Every Moment Matters: Schedules and Transitions

Child care providers play a key role in shaping how children experience their daily routines and environments. This course explores how the physical setting, sc...

Bridging Cultures: Family Communication & Collaboration

Building strong partnerships with families is essential to supporting every child’s growth, development, and school readiness. This training equips child care...

Families, Communities, and Classrooms: Working Together for Children

Families and communities are central to children’s growth, shaping how they learn, develop, and thrive in early childhood programs. This training provides chi...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 6 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 6: Maintaining a commitment to professionalism. Examples include advocacy, the rights of children...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 6 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 6: Maintaining a commitment to professionalism. Examples include advocacy, the rights of children...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 6 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 6: Maintaining a commitment to professionalism. Examples include advocacy, the rights of children...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 5 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 5: Managing an effective program. Examples include home visitation, time management, documenting ...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 4 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 4: Understanding family systems and development. Examples include family service and support, goa...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 4 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 4: Understanding family systems and development. Examples include family service and support, goa...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 4 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 4: Understanding family systems and development. Examples include family service and support, goa...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 3 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 3: Promoting parents’ use of positive ways to support children's social and emotional developme...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 7 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 7: Working across the child welfare continuum. Examples include cultural competence in all aspect...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 3 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 3: Promoting parents’ use of positive ways to support children's social and emotional developme...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 2 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 2: Enhancing parents’ skills to advance children’s physical and intellectual development. Exa...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 2 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 2: Enhancing parents’ skills to advance children’s physical and intellectual development. Exa...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 2 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 2: Enhancing parents’ skills to advance children’s physical and intellectual development. Exa...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 1 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 1: Promoting health and safety in the home environment. Examples include safety, first aid, healt...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 1 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 1: Promoting health and safety in the home environment. Examples include safety, first aid, healt...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 1 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 1: Promoting health and safety in the home environment. Examples include safety, first aid, healt...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 5 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 5: Managing an effective program. Examples include home visitation, time management, documenting ...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 5 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 5: Managing an effective program. Examples include developing action plans, effective communicati...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 3 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 3: Promoting parents’ use of positive ways to support children's social and emotional developme...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 8 Part 3 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 8: Understanding principles of child development and learning. Examples include typical developme...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 8 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 8: Understanding principles of child development and learning. Examples include typical developme...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 8 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 8: Understanding principles of child development and learning. Examples include typical developme...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 7 Part 2 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 7: Working across the child welfare continuum. Examples include cultural competence in all aspect...

CDA Home Visitor Subject Area 7 Part 1 Birth to 5

In this online course, learners will review CDA® Subject Area 7: Working across the child welfare continuum, including cultural competence in all aspects of ch...

1,2,3, Eyes on Me: Classroom Safety

As a teacher, you play many roles in a child care setting, from educator, friend, role model, to resource, but your number one role is always going to be keepin...

Pediatric RSV First Aid & CPR/AED

Be the Everyday Hero: First Aid & CPR Certification for Caregivers ChildCareEd is committed to ensuring the #safety and well-being of infants and adults throug...

Health and Nutrition

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the #CDA: Subject Area 1: Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment Children’s development depends on a ...

No Such Thing as Boring Math

Intentionally planned play takes on a new meaning when combined with mathematical concepts. We developed this course to help childcare providers understand how ...

Classroom Setup for Child Care

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 1: Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment Also known as the "Second Teacher," #cl...

Viewing Guidance in a Positive Light

This course aims to help child care providers harness the power of positive guidance and discipline in supporting children's social-emotional development. In t...

Community and Family Engagement in Childcare

"It takes a village to raise a child". This African proverb means that it takes an entire community of people to positively interact with children for them to g...

A Better Space for All

How can you as child care professionals ensure that the learning environment they create for the children under their care addresses all of their individual nee...

Emergent Learning & Development

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the #CDA: Subject Area 8: Understanding the Principles of Child Development and Learning In the National Associat...

Going Head-to-Head with Challenging Behavior

Understanding the “why” is only the start to address children’s challenging behaviors is only the start: to truly combat it, early childhood education pro...

A Closer Look into Developmental Theories

To fully understand how children develop, grow, and learn, you as an educator must have a thorough background in historical and current theories. The evolution ...

Shaken Baby Syndrome

Abusive Head Trauma, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Traumatic Brain Injury. What do all of these terms mean and how are they similar or dissimilar? In this course, we wi...

How to Manage Chronic Illness with Infants/Toddlers

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 1: Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment Many teachers freeze with fear when the...

Baby Steps to Milestones ONLINE

How can we as teachers and providers create lesson plans and curriculum that actively support children's development? When we know what milestones children typi...

Children's Keepers: Building Childhood Resilience

This course is designed to equip early childhood educators with vital skills to support children's well-being. Delve into the latest brain research highlighting...

Staying Positive: Guidance for Preschoolers

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 3: Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Development Positive guidance sets young chil...

DAP for Preschool

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 2: Advancing Children's Physical and Intellectual Development One of the first steps of cre...

Designing Your School-Age Classroom ONLINE

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 1: Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment Well-designed and implemented environme...

Key Elements of an After School Age Program ONLINE

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 5: Managing an Effective Program Achievement and positive learning attitudes in school-age ...

Letter & Number Planning in Child Care

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 2: Advancing Children's Physical and Intellectual Development The building blocks of early ...

Moving About the Classroom: Effective Transitions for Everyday

Lunch is running late, the children have finished the small group activity, what do you do now? Transition activities are helpful and needed tools that teachers...

Ouch! Biting & Hitting Hurts

Managing challenging behaviors like biting and hitting is a common challenge in child care. This course provides practical strategies for handling these situati...

Professional Integrity in Child Care

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 6: Maintaining a Commitment to Professionalism Ethical behavior and professional integrity ...

Professional Partnerships & Practices

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: CDA Subject Area 6: Maintaining a Commitment to Professionalism Teaching goes beyond educating children ...

Supporting Children's Independence

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 3: Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Development Fostering independence in young c...

Special Needs: From Referral to Inclusion

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 7: Observing and Recording Children's Behavior Educators working with children ages 3-5 pla...

Supporting Skill Development: Children with Special Needs

Providers working with children with special needs must understand how to support each individual child based on their specific needs. Understanding how to make...

Understanding Print Knowledge in Preschool

Research has shown that without a strong foundation in reading, children are left behind at the beginning of their educational careers. Preschool teachers need ...

Building Vocabulary

Using Toys to Support Learning

Materials and equipment in the classroom are tools to assist in skill development. When these items are thoughtfully purchased and placed in meaningful ways, th...

You're Not My Friend Anymore: Learning Conflict Resolution

Social-emotional development is an important part of early childhood. Children learn more about themselves and how to interact with their peers and the adults a...

Creating the Natural Outdoor Classroom

Even from an early age, children love to be around and connect with nature! As our world gets smaller, it is especially important to encourage this love of the ...

Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases

The Child Care and Development Fund health and safety requirements for providers receiving federal financial assistance include training in: prevention and cont...

Working Together: Teachers & Preschoolers

Trying to find new ways to interact and engage with your preschoolers. In this training, we focus on strategies to implement a positive environment by engaging ...

Spicing Up the Classroom: Learning Centers

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 2: Advancing Children's Physical and Intellectual Development Child care professionals are ...

IEPs and IFSPs in Family Child Care

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 7: Observing and Recording Children's Behavior As family child care providers, you are resp...

Tomorrow's Einsteins: Infant and Toddler Science

Infants and Toddlers are naturally curious about their world and how things work. After taking this class, teachers can support children’s curiosity and scien...

Trauma-Sensitive Care: Supporting Young Children with Empathy

Understanding trauma is essential for creating safe, supportive environments for young children. This course equips child care providers with the knowledge to d...

Prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Use of Safe Sleep Practices

The Child Care and Development Fund health and safety requirements for providers receiving federal financial assistance include training in the prevention of su...

Appropriate Precautions in Transportation of Children

The Child Care and Development Fund health and safety requirements for providers receiving federal financial assistance includes training in: appropriate precau...