Course | Early Childhood Care & Education

Prices

The price listed reflects a single payment in USD. Other pricing options are available for this course.

• US Dollars:
3 monthly payments of $180

• British Pounds:
Single payment of £200
Or 3 monthly payments of £90

• Euros:
Single payment of €300
Or 3 monthly payments of €135

For further information, please visit Cambridge International College website.

Diploma on Early Childhood Care & Education

This unique and important Program is enjoyable, interesting, educational, informative and motivational, and will provide the key knowledge required to become an effective and professional ECE.The Program is designed to be studied by those who are already working in an early childhood care and educational capacity, including teachers, teaching assistants, child-minders, child-carers, parents and others; and also for men and women who wish to become ECE’s - ‘early childhood educators’ - as teachers, carers or in another role.

Also: Special Offer

The Special Offer is a free extra course on “Strategy, Quality & Contemporary Business Concerns”; the one requirement is that you must provide your personal email address to the College at the same time that you submit your Enrolment Form and Fee payment. Access to the free course on Strategy, Quality & Contemporary Business Concerns will be through CIC’s on-line platform and login details will be provided to you shortly after enrolment. This Special Offer is only valid for new enrolments; no other offer or free course applies with this Special Offer.

Summary of Major Topics

• Module 1 - The Importance of Early Childhood Care & Education
The formative years: physical, socio-emotional, language and cognitive ability.
Early childhood educators (ECEs) and early childhood education.
Cognition, developing motor skills, a sense of self, preparing children for education.
Early years settings, learning environments, early childhood developmental milestones.

• Module 2 - The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
EYFS welfare and development goals, standards for childcare, measuring children’s progress.
Areas of learning and development, EYFS principles, Aims of EYFS curriculum and guidelines.
Learning goals, learning objectives, learning outcomes.
EYFS profile, observation and making assessments, uses of results from the profile.

• Module 3 - Early Childhood Educators
ECE professionals, requirements, duties and responsibilities, essential character traits.
Providing a learning environment for young children, planning, supervision, safety.
Addressing children’s emotional, cognitive, social and physical needs, developing children’s social skills.
ECE education and training, professional development, staying up to date with research.

• Module 4 - Early Childhood Learning Environments
Safe, responsive, and nurturing early learning environments, physical and environmental factors.
Transitioning in learning environments, learning through play, materials, learning opportunities.
Social interactions, children and teachers, collaborative activities, areas of interest, daily schedules and routines.
Designing learning spaces for safety, children’s bodies, accessibility, stimulation, special needs.

• Module 5 - Pedagogy
Education programmes, courses, modules, units, lessons, subjects, topics, the importance of play.
Components of pedagogy, strategies, influencing learning, positive outcomes, teaching methodology.
Curriculums, learning processes, cognitive skills, the three principles of learning.
Pre-school, kindergarten, developing school-readiness skills, play schools, playgroups.

• Module 6 - Teaching Strategies and Methods
Teaching and instructional strategies, teacher-oriented and student-oriented teaching.
Teaching methodology, methods used for instructing a class, how teachers explain or teach.
Educational philosophy, a teacher’s choice of teaching methods, interactive teaching.
Pre-school teaching methods: playway, Reggio Emilia, Montessori, Waldorf Steiner, Bank Street, STEM, Head Start programs.

• Module 7 - Children’s Learning Styles and Domains
Understanding how young children learn, sensory perception, creativity and skills development, learning and experience.
Developmental domains: physical, language, emotional, intellectual, social, arts and crafts.
Learning styles, ways in which information is processed, perception, human senses.
Cognitive learning, skills and milestones, forming memories, making decisions, attention spans, passive and active learning, the learning pyramid.

• Module 8 - Memory and Learning
Intelligent behaviour and remembering information; explicit, declarative and implicit memory.
Memory and understanding, imagination, multi-sensory experiences, behavioural guidance.
Memory processes, encoding, storage, retrieval; sensory, short-term, working and long-term memory, memory problems.
Techniques, methods and tips for helping children improve memory.

• Module 9 - Styles of Teaching, Motivation & Engagement of Early Learners
ECEs and different styles of teaching, adapting teaching style to class and subject matter.
Motivating children’s learning, methods of motivating pre-schoolers.
Learner engagement, children’s attention, curiosity, hands-on activities, manipulatives.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, praise as a motivator, positive comments, truthful valuation, body language signals.

• Module 10 - Classroom Community, Co-operative Learning, Psychological Needs
Building a classroom community, attitudes and values, the ECE’s role, planning and practice, respectable behaviour, belonging and acceptance.
Co-operative learning, positive interdependence, learning to share, ECEs as facilitators, teamwork activities.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, physiological-biological, safety-security, belonging-love, esteem and ego, self-actualisation, lower and higher order needs.
Maslow’s hierarchy applied to education, children and pre-school children.

• Module 11 - Early Learning Classroom Management
Daily class schedules, structure, classroom procedures, methods and reminders, acceptable behaviour.
Classroom routines, creating patterns and familiarity, repetition and habit, classroom rules.
Free-choice time, the ECE’s facilitator role, scaffolding children’s learning, daily routines, transitions between activities.
Questions and questioning, types of questions, effective questioning, responding to children’s questions.

• Module 12 - Early Learners with Special Needs
Definitions of special needs, special educational needs, disability, developmental delays, impairment, putting the child first.
Inclusive child care, ECEs in inclusive classrooms, school administrators, socialisation and friendships, children with special needs and typically-developing children.
Developmental delays in children, types, possible effects and problems; speech, hearing, visual, social and emotional disabilities and child care.
Learning disabilities and child care, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD; indications of learning disability.