Based on Innovations: Infant & Toddler Development
Eligible for 3 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from the University of Wisconsin-Stout
After reading Innovations: Infant & Toddler Development and successfully completing a three-part online assessment, you will be prepared to:
- Define the term child development and explain development across a child’s life span.
- Compare the five principles of developmental theory to the five principles of interactional theory.
- Describe the four phases of the Innovations Model for addressing behaviors.
- Summarize Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in relationship to separating from parents and transitioning to school.
- Explain Mahler’s four stages of identity formation.
- List the nine character traits that have been identified to gauge a child’s temperament.
- Use a variety of teaching roles.
- Create developmentally appropriate environments to support emotional development.
- Manage children’s aggression.
- Explain the purpose and contents of the parent postcards, communication sheet, accident report, incident report, and resource contact information form.
- Write possibilities plans.
- Integrate theory and best practices into the curriculum.
- Explain Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems theory and implications for connecting with the school and teacher and making friends.
- Create a supportive environment that welcomes children and families.
- Apply theories and best practices possibilities from Erickson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development for Adjustment Difficulty.
- Teach children to use pro-social behaviors.
- Integrate theory and best practices into the curriculum.
- Discuss implications of cultural context for relating to self and others and exploring roles.
- Compare Piaget’s, Parten’s, and Vygotsky’s theories of play.
- Apply theory and best practices to communicating with parents, teachers and friends.
- Explain why self-regulation and the internalization of self-control are so important to development.
- Model best practices in promoting physical development and problem solving.
- Integrate theory and best practice into curriculum possibilities for toileting.
- Describe the stages of emotional development.
C002A – 3 CEUs, 3 Tests – Part A, Part B, and Part C
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