Creating Positive Connections
The love and nurturing that a child receives in the first few years of life can have effects on development that last a lifetime. As we learn more about children and how they develop, we understand more clearly the role of early relationships. Warm, nurturing relationships based on respect, understanding, and acceptance are essential for children’s optimal development. In this course, explore caregiver behaviors that create four positive connections: Teacher to child, child to child, child to environment, and teacher to family. Through interactive learning activities, group discussion forums, videos, reflective writing exercises, scenarios, and a field assignment, participants will learn to create an environment where relationships flourish. This is a four-hour course worth .4 CEUs.
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The love and nurturing that a child receives in the first few years of life can have effects on development that last a lifetime. As we learn more about children and how they develop, we understand more clearly the role of early relationships. Warm, nurturing relationships based on respect, understanding, and acceptance are essential for children’s optimal development. In this course, explore caregiver behaviors that create four positive connections: Teacher to child, child to child, child to environment, and teacher to family. Through interactive learning activities, group discussion forums, videos, reflective writing exercises, scenarios, and a field assignment, participants will learn to create an environment where relationships flourish. This is a four-hour course worth .4 CEUs.
This course can be utilized to meet the training requirements to earn or renew your Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. Course content is aligned with the CDA Subject Area 3: Supporting children's social and emotional development.
- Social-emotional development
- Attachment bond
- Secure attachment
- Teacher-child connections
- Positive peer connections
- Environment
- Positive family connections
- Non-verbal communication
- Class schedule
Approved for 0.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) in all 50 states.
This course is approved for CEUs in every state. It is also approved for state training hours in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia.
“I will help children in my care develop their social skills by encouraging diversity, working and playing together with their peers, working with family members to connect with them, and working with children on the same goals and talk about their progress with parents. I will encourage social growth by creating an environment that makes it easy for kids to grow.”
-Kathrine Q., UT, 2021
“My plan in order to create more positive connections with the students, families, and teachers in my center is to make sure I am looking at the bigger picture VS. the short term... I want to make sure that the connections I am making are not only genuine, but equally beneficial to both parties.”
-Aspen T., TX, 2020