DC Approved Self-Paced Trainings

Infant

  • This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (3) Health, Safety, and Nutrition

  • 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.

  • By the end of the training, participants will:

    1. Identify 5 ways to support getting baby ready for solid foods.

    2. Name 1 possible solution to common problems that occur at meal times. 

    3. Identify the nutritional needs of children from 6 months to 5 years.

  • 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.

  • This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (1) Child Growth and Development (1) Curriculum (1) Inclusive Practices.

  • 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!

  • At the end of this training, you will be able to:

    1. Identify populations of children that benefit from using sign language. 

    2. List 3 benefits of signing to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

    3. List routines within their day and curriculum where they can implement signing to children.

  • 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.

  • This 4 hour training is approved for 0.4 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (2) Child Growth and Development (2) Curriculum.

  • This training provides information on language developmental milestones during the first year so you know what to expect and when, when it comes to a baby’s language development.

    You will learn quick and easy strategies you can use in your daily routines that support baby moving from babbling to saying their first words!

  • At the end of this training, you will be able to:

    1. Identify expressive and receptive language developmental milestones for babies ranging in age from birth to 15 months.

    2. Identify 3 benefits to providing a strong language foundation in infancy.

    3. List 7 language boosting strategies that support language development in infants.

    4. Name daily routines where you can implement the learned strategies.

  • Resources: This course includes three digital resources! The First Babbles to First Words Handbook is the main resource and features more than 65 pages of handouts packed full of information, how-to's, video examples, checklists, 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.

  • This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (1) Child Growth and Development (2) Curriculum

  • The training is designed to equip childcare providers with the knowledge and skills necessary to support and enhance fine motor development.  

    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 skills for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

    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.   

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (3) Curriculum

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (2) Child Growth and Development (1) Curriculum

  • 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 or they are having trouble with play transitions (like clean up!). 

    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!

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (3) Curriculum.

  • This 3 hour training is approved for 0.3 IACET CEU's and meets requirements for District of Columbia (OSSE) 3 CKA hours: (1) Child Growth and Development (2) Curriculum

  • 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! 

  • At the end of this training, you will be able to:

    1. Identify activities they can do to support the development of the sensory system.

    2. Identify the benefits of sensory play on a child's development. 

    3. Select materials needed for sensory play.

  • 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.