Did you know newborn infants are legally blind? Or that clear eyesight and depth perception need to be developed with the assistance of adults? A lot goes into healthy eye development and young eyes need proper nutrients, natural light, colors, shapes, and moving things to move this process along. Outdoor exercise, with protection from exposure to the sun and other elements, is the very best way to promote healthy eye development. Eye exams and food also play a vital role in development. For more information on Visual Development and Protection, view CCEI's May newsletter, in recognition of Healthy Vision Month.
Early childhood educators are encouraged to take COG100: Exploring Visual/Spatial Intelligence in recognition of May being Healthy Vision Month. Spatial intelligence is also referred to as "picture smarts" and involves being able to strongly visualize a larger picture, of finished product, before it's complete. Spatial skills are frequently used by painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, fashion designers,
graphic artists, interior designers, movie directors, pilots,
navigators, military strategists, engineers, and city planners. This course is a one-hour, intermediate-level training, available as a no-cost trial course to new users for CCEI account creation in May.
CCEI and the Council for Professional Recognition, the administrator of the Child Development Associate® (CDA) National Credentialing Program™, are proud partners!
As an OFFICIAL PARTNER of the Council for Professional Recognition, ChildCare Education Institute's Early Childhood Credential (ECC) meets all requirements for the National CDA Credential with the exception of the Council's final exam!!! CCEI is excited to offer Head Start and Early Head Start providers even more continuing education options through this expanded partnership.
To the left we have Brocklin Qualls, Manager, Domestic and International Partnerships for the Council for Professional Recognition, and Marta Merriman, Regional Enrollment Manager for CCEI.
Pictured here from left to right we have Marta Merriman, Regional Enrollment Manager for CCEI; Otera Cunya, Program Associate, Communications and Marketing, for the Council for Professional Recognition; and Janice Rice, Marketing Manager for CCEI.
Promoting Empathy and Other "Prosocial" Behaviors is the latest addition to ChildCare Education Institute's online professional development library. Many of us including adults confuse emotions of empathy with sympathy, and feel we're expressing empathy through pity for the hardships of others. Empathy involves sharing the emotions of others, whether those feelings are positive or negative, and the development is a process. Like other prosocial behaviors, empathy is one that should be introduced to children at a young age in order to increase the chance that it can undoubtedly improve relationships and increase understandings throughout their lifetime.
Stress can harm a child's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development. Adults also need to be aware of the "stress loop" created when children sense stress in a close caregiver, so training child care providers to leave personal stress on the doorstep when reaching the classroom will dramatically assist in keeping lower classroom stress levels. Handling teacher stress in child care settings is also covered within CCEI's April newsletter Stress-Less Child Care Environments. While lower levels of stress may create positive change and motivational factors, the beneficial aspects of stress diminish when the stress becomes severe enough to overwhelm one's ability to cope effectively. View the linked newsletter for more on classroom stress reduction.
CCEI students have completed more than 900,000 professional development hours and over 5,000 certificate programs online. In appreciation of everyone's support and in celebration of Week of the Young Child™ (WOYC), April 14 - 20, 2013, CCEI offers online course Critical Thinking Skills in the Preschool Environment at no-cost. The celebration of the Week of the Young Child™ is an annual occurrence sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the intention is to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs. Active individual or center-based subscription holders may enroll in this course at any time without the use of a promotion code.
Penn Foster and ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI) have created an articulation partnership agreement that allows students from CCEI to transfer credits toward degrees at Penn Foster. View the Penn Foster articulaton partnership details.
On April 16, Penn Foster will host an online open house where experts from the school's Education and Child Care Academy will be available to discuss the CCEI partnership, current issues regarding early childhood education and Penn Foster's child care programs. Current and prospective students are encouraged to participate in the online discussion, which will take place from 1pm - 2pm EST.
As an OFFICIAL PARTNER of the Council for Professional Recognition, ChildCare Education Institute's Early Childhood Credential (ECC) meets all requirements for the National CDA Credential with the exception of the Council's final exam!!! CCEI is excited to offer Head Start and Early Head Start providers even more continuing education options through this expanded partnership.
