Childcare Courses in Ontario - ON

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...

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...

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 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...

The ABCs of Behavior: Turning Challenges into Learning Opportunities

Challenging behaviors can be confusing and frustrating, but understanding the why behind a child’s actions helps providers respond effectively. This training ...

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...

Professional Presence in Early Childhood

Child care providers need strong professional habits and clear, respectful communication to build trust with families and work smoothly with colleagues. This co...

Coaching for Success: Inclusive Strategies to Support Children with Autism

This training equips early childhood educators with practical, classroom-focused strategies to support the functional, social, and academic development of child...

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...

Effective Approaches for Autism and Inclusion

Child care providers play a key role in creating inclusive environments where every child can learn and thrive. This course helps providers recognize signs of a...

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...

Play with Purpose: Supporting Children with Autism

Play is one of the most powerful ways children with autism learn, communicate, and grow. This course helps child care providers understand how to use play-based...

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...

Everyday Safety: Creating Healthy Environments

Creating a healthy and safe environment is the foundation for helping children thrive in your care. This course equips child care providers with practical strat...

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...

CDA: Stand With Respect and Professionalism

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the #CDA: Subject Area 4: Building Productive Relationships with Families Professionalism and respect go hand-in-...

Montessori Cultural Activities: Exploring the World Through Play and Learning

Cultural activities in the Montessori early childhood classroom provide young learners with a rich foundation in geography, history, science, art, music, and so...

Assessment of Language and Literacy Skills

This training course equips child care providers with essential knowledge and practical skills to assess language and literacy development in early childhood. P...

CDA: A Closer Look at Assessments

Assessments in the childcare field can be an intimidating task for many #teachers. In response, we have created this course as part of the #CDA Observing and re...

CDA: Approaches to Learning

Early childhood research has demonstrated the importance of knowing child development and how individual children learn and grow at their own pace. We have crea...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Classroom Setup

Veteran teachers know the secret of an effective classroom setup and its influences on child behavior and expectations. Well, this does not have to be a secret ...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Health and Safety

Recent world events have taught us more now than ever the importance of maintaining a healthy and safe learning environment. We have created this course as part...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Importance of Consistent Care

When children feel safe and secure in their environment, they are better able to be themselves and learn. As early childhood educators, we must help create this...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Lesson Planning Made Easy

Lesson plans are arguably one of the most identifiable components of a successful classroom. However, not all infant and toddler classrooms implement this key p...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Stages of Development

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 8: Understanding the Principles of Child Growth and Development Over the past 100 years, th...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Smart Nutrition & Feeding

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 1: Planning a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment Nutrition plays a vital role in the dev...

CDA: Special Needs: Understanding the Whole Child

Developmentally Appropriate Practice talks about teaching the whole child. Part of this teaching is also helping those who may have specialized needs or who may...

Mindful Supervision: Balancing Safety & Independence in Montessori

Active supervision is essential in a Montessori environment, where children explore and learn through hands-on experiences. This course equips child care provid...

Safeguarding Young Lives: A Comprehensive Guide to Child Care Safety

This intermediate level course is designed to equip child care providers with the essential knowledge and skills to ensure a safe and healthy environment for ch...

Character Development for Childcare Professionals

What traits do stellar child care professionals possess in order to stand out? When you understand the vital role that communication, professionalism, and a res...

Building Vocabulary

CDA: Essential Tools for Record Keeping

Recording and reporting important information on children's development is an essential skill for child care providers. Educators need to know how to record obs...

Reading Aloud and Storytelling

This training course focuses on the powerful role of reading aloud and storytelling in promoting early language and literacy development. Child care providers w...

Sensitive Periods in Montessori: Guiding Natural Learning

Sensitive periods are key windows of opportunity when young children are naturally primed for learning specific skills, such as language, movement, and order. T...

Nutrition Essentials for Child Care Providers

Understanding proper nutrition is vital for promoting healthy growth and development in children. This course equips child care providers with the knowledge to ...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Abuse and Neglect Reporting Requisites

Keeping our infants and toddlers safe is one of our top priorities. Knowing the signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect is especially important when working wit...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Benefits to Observing

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 7: Observing and Recording Children's Behavior Assessing infants and toddlers may seem like...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Brain Development and Gene Expression

Knowing how the brain works and how it is influenced can greatly help childcare providers know how to teach and promote positive growth and development with the...

CDA Infants/Toddlers: Individualized Learning and Inclusion

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the CDA: Subject Area 7: Observing and Recording Children's Behavior Many educators have heard the term "individu...

CDA Infant/Toddler: Parent Relationships

Having to send your child off to childcare as an infant or toddler is very hard for many parents. As early childhood educators, we need to be there for the pare...

Classroom Tools for Emergent Literacy

#Language and literacy development are essential components of high-quality early childhood education. Children who are able to build emergent literacy skills b...

Building Bridges for Dual Language Learners

Supporting Dual Language Learners (DLLs) in early childhood settings is essential for fostering language development, confidence, and inclusion. This course exp...

Building Early Science Foundations

This professional development course has been approved by the American Montessori Society (AMS) for continuing professional development hours. To obtain an off...

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 ...

Balancing Active Play in Child Care

Understanding how to create a balanced schedule of active, creative, and sedentary time is essential for fostering healthy development in children. This course ...

CDA: Curriculum Alignment & Materials

Choosing equipment and materials for your child care environment can be overwhelming if you are unsure of the specific needs of the children in your care. Creat...

CDA: Communication: Keep It Simple

The field of #early-childhood-education is no different in needing to maintain certain forms and documents as our K-12 colleagues need to do. All #educators hav...

CDA: Creating the Outdoor Classroom

This course satisfies the following area(s) of the #CDA: Subject Area 2: Advancing Children's Physical and Intellectual Development The natural environment can ...

Early Emotional Wellness

Mental health and social-emotional development are critical foundations in early childhood. This course equips child care providers with an understanding of men...

Enhancing STEM Education for Infants and Toddlers

This intermediate level course is designed to equip child care providers with the knowledge and skills necessary to foster STEM (Science, Technology, Engineerin...

Equity in Action with Head Start

Learn how Head Start and Early Head Start programs create inclusive and equitable early education environments. This course covers who qualifies for these progr...

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education

Teaching diversity exposes students to various cultural and social groups, preparing students to become better citizens in their communities. The first step to ...

Family Child Care: Building, Premises, and Outdoor Safety

This two-hour training for family child care providers focuses on Active Supervision practices that prevent injuries and reduce risk by keeping children safe ac...

Building a Healthier Tomorrow: Preventing Childhood Obesity

Childhood obesity is a growing concern with lasting impacts on children’s health and development. This course helps child care providers understand the defini...

Supporting Families and Caregivers in Language and Literacy

Supporting Families and Caregivers in Language and Literacy is a vital training course designed to help child care providers strengthen their collaboration with...

Language Development in Early Childhood

Language and literacy development in early childhood lays the foundation for future learning and communication skills. This course equips child care providers w...

Language Development in School Age

Supporting the language and literacy development of school-age children is essential for their academic success and overall communication skills. This course ex...

Leadership Through Mentorship

This training is essential for child care administrators seeking to effectively mentor and support their staff. Participants will learn the critical roles and r...

Leveling the Playing Field: ERSEA for Head Start

Explore the core requirements of ERSEA (Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance) while fostering an inclusive, culturally responsive app...

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...

Interview and Communication Skills

This training focuses on professional behavior and communication during the hiring process. Participants will learn how to make a positive first impression, dem...

Workplace Essentials: Communicate, Collaborate, Succeed

Strong communication and professionalism are the foundation of a successful workplace, helping individuals prevent misunderstandings, resolve conflicts, and bui...

Building Equity: Inclusionary Practices in Preschool

Child care providers play a vital role in creating inclusive environments that support every child's growth and development. This intermediate level course cove...

Job Search Basics

This training prepares learners for the early stages of the hiring process by helping them develop strong job search materials and get ready for interviews. Par...

CDA Introduction

Dive into a gateway of opportunity with our CDA Introduction training, where you'll unlock the key to distinguishing yourself in the realm of early childhood e...