Courses on the learning environment teach you how to plan a safe and healthy place for children to learn and play. These classes involve literacy, music, art, motor development and discipline.
These classes teach you how to enhance young children's physical and intellectual development. Included are classes on child literacy, physical development and brain development.
These classes teach you how to communicate with children and guide them socially and emotionally. Subjects include the impact of divorce and abuse and dealing with stress in the classroom.
These classes establish guidelines for you to establish and maintain positive relationships with families. Examples are classes on parenting styles and parent-teacher conferences.
Program management classes teach the business side of running a day care, including staff evaluations, leadership and mentoring, marketing, budgeting skills and legal issues.
Classes on professionalism cover a wide range of topics, from dealing with stress at work and following an ethical code to dealing responsibly with crises.
These classes include field experience intended to help you understand some of the behavioral aspects of young children.
These classes deal broadly with the ways children grow and develop. They include age-specific principles of growth, from infants to 5-year-olds.