Caring for Children - an online class
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Topics discussed
Keeping Children Safe
We’ll explore ways of childproofing your home, to ensure safety and awareness of possible dangers. We’ll discuss creating safety rules to include fire and emergency preparation and drills. You’ll have access to indoor and outdoor safety checklists that will help you to insure that children are safe in and out of your home environment.
Healthy Children
We’ll discuss ways of modeling healthy behavior. We will explore ways of reducing the spread of illness, by using healthy environmental checklists. You’ll look at nutrition and health and create healthy menus. You’ll discover the importance of eating meals together and how this time can be used effectively. You will learn ways of encouraging a healthy and sanitary environment, when dealing with germs, bacteria and parasites. We end this lesson by talking about identifying child abuse.
Creating a Learning Environment
You’ll learn how to create a safe but learning environment. You will discover how to use the space you have and how to organize space for growth and learning. We will explore the different needs of different children. You’ll discover the importance of having a daily routine, and yet have a flexible schedule.
Promoting Physical Development
I’ll show you ways to promote physical development throughout the day. We’ll discuss the development of gross and fine motor skills of different age groups. We’ll explore the many ways the outdoors can be used in promoting physical development in children.
Understand Cognitive Development
We’ll discuss cognitive development and explore ways to provide opportunities for cognitive development throughout the day. We’ll note the different cognitive needs of many age groups. You’ll discover how to promote thinking skills and what materials can be used for enhancing cognitive development.
Helping Children with Communication Skills
We will explore the stages of language development that all children must go through. You will learn how to help children communicate and how to provide a supportive environment for communication. You’ll learn ways of modeling communication skills. We’ll discuss the importance of reading to children and how to select appropriate books for different age groups.
Promoting Creativity
We’ll discover ways to encourage creativity from infants to school age children. You’ll learn how to provide opportunities for success in music, art and many other mediums that can be used to encourage children to be creative and express themselves in their own way.
Encouraging Self-esteem
You’ll begin to see how important it is for children to have a positive self-esteem. We’ll explore the different self-esteem needs that benefit different age groups. We discuss the value of knowing each child well, in order to be able to better access the child’s self-esteem needs.
Teaching Social Skills
We’ll discuss the values of social development. We’ll discuss ways to help children get along with each other. We will explore the range of ages and what to expect from them socially. I’ll discuss ways of supporting social development through play, as well as ways to help children make friends.
Learning Proper Guidance
We’ll discuss proper guidance in this lesson. I will show you the best way to promote discipline by setting limits. You’ll explore guiding different ages and understand what you can expect from them. I will show you how to promote self-discipline in your home and show you how your words can guide them.
Finding Time for You
This lesson is designed just for you! We explore how to better manage our own life so we can find time for our own wants and needs. We use a list to assess where our time is going and how it can be better spent. We will discuss what makes us happy and how we can ensure our own mind, body and spirit are well cared for.
Getting Organized
Finally, we’ll approach ways of getting organized when caring for children. We learn methods of observation to record and track progress of each child. You’ll create weekly plans, daily plans, menus and other valuable information that you need when caring for children. When caring for the children of others, there are many areas of record keeping that will be discussed. We close the lesson by discussing the anxiety of caring for children and ways to deal with children and stress.
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ReplyDelete10 Advantages of Online Learning
ReplyDelete1. Students share perspectives
Online courses can provide students with discussion boards and chat functions that allow them to share their own perspectives. Students can view responses from others, and learn through exposure to different ideas. This benefits students because they can evaluate new opinions alongside their own, and develop a solid foundation for learning.
2. Students experience a sense of equality
Web-based learning tools give all students a reinforced sense of equality. Each student has the same opportunity to "speak up" without fear or embarrassment. Shy and anxious students feel more comfortable expressing their ideas via online posts; studies prove that online discussions provoke more direct communication between students.
3. Instructors are more accessible
Online learning also benefits students by providing an additional avenue for instructor contact. This is particularly helpful when a student's schedule conflicts with a teacher's or tutor's hours, or when a question arises at the spur of the moment. Additional online tools can provide one-on-one instruction that follows the student's schedule for just a fraction of the cost of an in-home tutor!
4. Accommodations for different learning styles
Every student has a unique learning style. Some students are visual learners and some learn better with a "hands-on" approach. Web-based learning environments often incorporate a variety of resources into a single course, allowing students to utilize materials according to their learning style.
5. Provides opportunities for exploration
Online learning provides an increased opportunity for student exploration and activities by incorporating related Web sites into daily lessons. When courses reference these types of Web sites, content reinforcement is provided as students can see how course material is utilized in "real world" situations.
6. Encourages additional information rehearsal
Additional benefits for students who learn better with a hands-on approach occur when students participate in online discussions since they are exposed to an extra period of information rehearsal. Typically, students rehearse information when they study for exams or complete assignments. However, they also rehearse information when forming thoughts into sentences and typing those thoughts into the computer. This results in reflection and articulation of content, as the very process of reporting and writing about what they have learned engages students in an active learning experience.
7. Provides 24/7 accessibility to course materials
Some students work best in the morning, some in the evening, and some throughout the day. Scheduling time for homework and projects can be difficult depending on each student's classes, outside activities, and personal responsibilities. Online learning eliminates the need to conduct lessons at a specific time and allows your child to work when it is convenient for her/him. Online tutoring is available 24/7 over the Internet, with unlimited online access from both PC and Mac computers. This provides a flexible, mobile educational solution for students.
8. Continual access to materials
When course content and activities are provided online, students no longer need to worry about accessing course materials in a traditional manner. Continual access to course documents ensures that students can obtain materials at any time, removing the opportunity for frustration, such as "The library was closed."
9. Provides just-in-time methods to assess and evaluate student progress.
Assessments are essential in education; results inform the parent whether teaching methods and course structures are successful. Assessments also determine if student progress is satisfactory. Online tutoring provides personalized assessments to determine exactly what your child knows, doesn't know, and is ready to learn next. The assessment results are displayed in a color-keyed pie chart, creating an individualized learning path for your child that introduces new concepts gradually, and at the precise moment that he or she is ready to successfully learn the topic.
10. Added educational benefits
Web-based testing features also have many other educational benefits. Practice exams and end-of-chapter reviews can be quickly analyzed to provide you with immediate results. Students can access these tests at any time, and since grading is computerized, students receive immediate feedback. This may also help students who suffer from test anxiety to relax and help to minimize embarrassment for those that do poorly.