South Carolina Approved Self-Paced Trainings
Toddler
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 3 hr curriculum activities
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Did you know- research shows math language predicts later math AND reading skills!
You can foster a strong math foundation with the children you care for just by talking and using math vocabulary in your everyday conversations, it's that simple!
You will also leave the training with toy, book, and game suggestions to use in your childcare as well as handouts to provide to families so they can support math language at home!
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At the end of this training you will be able to:
Describe gender stereotypes and how it impacts math learning
State what it means to follow the child’s lead and guide the interaction
Name 5 key math concepts to focus on from birth through preschool
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Resources: This training includes 6 digital guides- one for each math concept you learn! They are packed with activities, videos, suggested books and toys, parent handouts, and more!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 3 hr curriculum activities
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Boost Vocabulary Through Science Play is designed for child care providers caring for toddler through preschool age children.
This training focuses on evidence-based practices for teaching vocabulary in natural, meaningful contexts while sparking curiosity through Science exploration.
Participants will learn how to integrate vocabulary for each of the 5 science domains into everyday routines, hands on activities, books, and toy, sensory, and imaginative play.
By the end of the session, providers will leave with a toolkit for boosting vocabulary development (which leads to later academic success!) and foster a love for Science.
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
1) identify the importance of science lessons in child care
2) select science activities to use in their child care
3) identify a variety of materials that can be used in science activities
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook packed with book, toy, and play ideas as well as “lessons plans” for each of the 5 Science domains.
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Course Evaluation: There is a course evaluation at the end of the training. Completion is required to receive your certificate.
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 1 Child Growth and Development, 1 Health and Safety, 1 Special Needs
Applies toward ABC Nutrition
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25-35% of typically developing children have some sort of feeding problem.
Learn ways you can support getting baby ready for solids, how to handle gagging, throwing food, picky eating, food refusal, and more!
This training is also packed with information about the nutritional needs and serving size recommendations, how to include diverse cultures, and information on when to be concerned.
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By the end of the training, participants will:
Identify 5 ways to support getting baby ready for solid foods.
Name 1 possible solution to common problems that occur at meal times.
Identify the nutritional needs of children from 6 months to 5 years.
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Resources: This training includes 5 digital downloads organized by baby, toddler, and preschool age content with more than 60 pages total of information, parent checklists, video examples, quick tips, suggested feeding tools to support mealtime struggles, and so much more!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 1 Child Growth & Development, 1 Curriculum Activities, and 1 Special Needs.
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Looking to incorporate sign language in your childcare? This training is for you!
Learn the many benefits of using sign language with infants, toddlers, and preschool age children that are both typically developing and have special needs.
Then have opportunities to watch videos and practice signs you can use during your everyday routines!
You will also learn ways to incorporate sign into your curriculum and how to create a supportive environment that fosters signs at your childcare setting and with your families!
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
Identify populations of children that benefit from using sign language.
List 3 benefits of signing to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
List routines within their day and curriculum where they can implement signing to children.
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Resources: This training includes 3 digital guides packed with research, ideas for when and where to use signs, video tutorials you can access at anytime, and handouts for parents!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 2 curriculum activities 1 child growth & development
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The training is designed to equip childcare providers with the knowledge and skills necessary to support and enhance fine motor development for handwriting.
Participants will learn what fine motor skills develop and when starting at infancy through age 5.
You will leave the training with play ideas, table top activities, and toy suggestions that support later handwriting skills.
The training also gives you recommendation for equipment for common skills like pencil grasp and cutting, how to support children with fine motor delays, and FAQ’s like "Does writing on a tablet support handwriting?" will be answered.
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
1. Identify fine motor milestones for the birth to 5 year old.
2. Identify fine motor activities for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
3. Identify strategies to promote pencil grasp and facilitate scissor skills.
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Resources: This training includes a comprehensive handbook with milestone checklists, toy and activity suggestions for fine motor development, printable activities, and more!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 1 hr curriculum activities 2 hr child growth & development
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This training provides information on language developmental milestones from 1-3 years old so caretakers know what to expect and when, when it comes to a toddler’s language development.
Providers will learn quick and easy strategies to support language development that can be implemented throughout the day, during natural routines.
The strategies are proven to support higher oral vocabulary through toddlerhood, stronger social connections, and academic success at school age.
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
1) Participants will identify expressive and receptive language developmental milestones for babies ranging in age from 1 to 3 years old.
2) Participants will identify 3 benefits (short and/or long term benefits) to providing a strong language foundation in toddlerhood.
3) Participants will name language boosting strategies that support language development in toddlers.
4) Participants will name daily routines that are part of the providers everyday schedule where they can implement learned strategies.
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook with milestone check lists, printable parent handouts with video examples, and strategies to help get toddlers talking or talking more with routine examples all at your fingertips!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 2 child growth and development 1 special needs
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It can be frustrating for both you and a child when you don’t understand what they said. This training provides information on speech sound development from 1-6 years old so caretakers know what sounds a child should be saying at specific ages.
Providers will learn quick and easy strategies to support speech development and respond in ways that reduces frustrations.
These strategies can be implemented throughout the day, during natural routines!
Providers will also learn the answers to frequently asked questions such as how to support dual language learners speech, when to be concerned, and common things that have a negative impact on sound development.
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
1) Participants will name early developing and later developing sounds.
2)Participants will name 3 RIGHT WAYS to respond that increase speech sound development.
3) Participants will demonstrate how to respond when you do not understand what a child said.
4) Answer FAQ’s that relate to speech sound development.
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook packed with easy to read speech sound development charts by age, typical and atypical sound errors with examples, and more!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 1 hour Curriculum Activities; 1 hour Child Guidance; 1 hour Special Needs
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This training explores strategies behind creating interactive and engaging interiors that stimulate language development and peer interactions.
We will delve into principles for effective interactions between you and the children you care for, classroom design that supports peer interactions, and practical strategies for grouping children for maximum engagement.
We will also problem solve how to support children that are not engaging socially with their peers.
By the end of the training, you will feel confident optimizing your furniture and layout, establishing learning centers, supporting language development, and fostering positive peer interactions.
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
identify the two main elements that make an interactive classroom.
Name at least 1 way you can arrange the environment to promote interactions.
Identify the best way to group children for learning experiences.
Identify ways to involve children with delays in peer play.
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook.
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 3 hr curriculum activities
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This training is designed to enhance your understanding of early literacy development in infants and toddlers and give you strategies to foster a child’s love of reading!
You will learn literacy milestones from birth-3 years, understand why reading matters, what to look for in books for this age, how to create a literacy rich environment, establish reading routines, and more!
Best of all, you will leave with tools to solve common reading struggles you probably encounter when reading to infants and toddlers.
By the end of the training, you will feel equipped to support language and literacy development with infants and toddlers!
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
1. Identify strategies to read to infants and toddlers that supports language and literacy development.
2. Identify different way(s) to rotate books that supports literacy and language.
3. Identify how to create a literacy rich environment.
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook with milestone checklists, parent friendly handouts with tips, video examples, and book suggestions!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 1 hr curriculum activities & 2 hr child growth & development
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This training is designed to elevate your understanding and practice of play-based learning with infants and toddlers.
You will explore fun and unique ways to engage infants and toddlers with toys that promote cognitive and language development and understand the significance of play positions to support sensory, fine, and gross motor skill development.
You will also learn strategies to support infants and toddlers when play is not going well!
The training is packed full of ready to do activities, video examples, toy suggestions, and more so you feel confident and empowered playing with infants and toddlers in ways that supports holistic development!
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
1) By the end of the training, participants will identify characteristics of play-based learning.
2) By the end of the training, participants will identify 3 benefits of play related to infant and toddler development.
3) By the end of the training, participants will recall ways to use play and play positions to support development.
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook with toy suggestions, play ideas, and videos so you can feel confident elevating play to support language and motor development!
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 2 hr curriculum activities 1 hr child growth and development
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Dive into the world of sensory play and discover its many benefits for infants and toddlers!
This engaging 3 hour training highlights the 8 sensory systems and provides a variety of ideas for fun, low cost-no cost, easy-to-implement sensory activities aligned to each of the 8 systems.
There are many benefits of sensory play- from fostering cognitive and language development to building emotional regulation.
Leave feeling equipped with tools and ideas to create a sensory-rich environment for children birth through age 3 that nurtures every child's development!
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At the end of this training, you will be able to:
Identify activities they can do to support the development of the sensory system.
Identify the benefits of sensory play on a child's development.
Select materials needed for sensory play.
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook.
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 10 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.
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This 2 hour training is approved for 0.2 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for South Carolina in the following areas: 1 hr curriculum activities 1 hr child growth & development
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Learn simple strategies to maximize a child’s development using toys and materials you already have.
This interactive training is designed for child care providers working with toddlers aged 18 - 36 months.
Explore how common toys and every day objects can be transformed to target language growth and strengthen fine motor skills.
You’ll learn specific language and fine motor strategies that support development and gain fresh ideas for play-based learning that you can implement immediately in your child care.
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By the end of the training participants will:
1. Identify language and fine motor developmental milestones for ages 18 months-36 months
2. Identify strategies that can be intentionally used during play to support development.
3. Identify ways to combine toys and materials to develop activities that meet milestones
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Resources: This training includes a digital handbook.
Assessment: At the end of the training is a 5 question multiple choice quiz. You must pass with an 80% but don't worry, you get 3 opportunities to take and pass the quiz!
Completion Deadline: This training expires 6 months from the date of purchase. The course must be successfully completed by the expiration date in order to receive a certificate. Don't forget to download and save the supplemental resources too!
Refunds: There are no refunds.