ECED 115 Child Care Basics

Designed to meet licensing requirements for early learning lead teachers, teacher aides, and family home child care providers, STARS 30-hour basics course recognized in the MERIT system and as CDA professional development. Topics: child growth/development, cultural competency, community resources, guidance, family partnerships, health/safety/nutrition, and professional practice. (NE)

Credits

3

Outcomes

1. Recognize families as central to tribal early learning programs and identify resources to support them.
2. Recognize child development (birth to age 8) as a continuum that informs caregivers about children’s needs.
3. Identify techniques for collecting child development information to use in planning.
4. Plan for learning through play and active involvement for children in care programs.
5. Demonstrate techniques for keeping children healthy and safe in preparing food, hand washing, diapering/toileting, cleaning, managing medication, preventing accidents, and identifying incidences of child abuse and neglect.
6. Identify and describe wellness, nutrition, and fitness practices in tribal early learning programs.
7. Identify interaction and guidance strategies that build connection and support children’s self-management.
8. Relate how legal requirements (tribal, state, and/or federal) govern child care programs and support staff in caring for children.
9. List examples of professional practice in Early Childhood Education.