ChildCare Education Institute® (CCEI), an online child care training provider dedicated exclusively to the early care and education workforce, has recently launched GUI101: Classroom Management as a free trial course for new CCEI users from April 1-30, 2024. This course offers a range of strategies and practices for fostering proper behaviour, positive social-emotional development, and a productive, effective learning environment. Strategies are primarily intended for grades Pre-K to 3 (ages 4 to 8), but most are suitable for use with any age group from Pre-K to 12.
GUI101: Classroom Management is a two-hour, intermediate-level course granting 0.2 IACET CEU upon completion. Current CCEI users with active, unlimited annual subscriptions can register for professional development courses at no additional cost when logged in to their CCEI account. Users without subscriptions can purchase childcare training courses as block hours through CCEI online enrollment.
Speaking about the development, Leslie Coleman, Education Director of CCEI, said:
This course is about teaching children appropriate behaviours, not controlling them. Effective classroom management requires many tools and methods, including positive guidance strategies for promoting appropriate individual behaviour and a range of techniques for maintaining an excellent group learning environment.
Teachers may not see themselves as managers, but they are more of a manager than they realize. They create a supportive learning environment and guide children’s learning. Essentially, they manage the programme they provide for children. From a teacher’s perspective, the term classroom management could describe the process of ensuring that classroom lessons run smoothly. Classroom management could be the most challenging aspect of teaching and is often cited as one of the main reasons teachers leave the profession. Once teachers lose control of their classroom, it isn’t easy to regain control. However, some strategies can prevent this from happening.
ChildCare Education Institute provides online child care training and certificates, child care registry development, and administrative solutions for the early care and education industry. As the leading distance training provider in child care centre curriculum, the institute offers professionals 200+ online child care training courses in English and Spanish to meet licensing, recognition programme, and Head Start requirements. CCEI’s coursework aims to meet practitioners’ educational needs in various contexts, including family child care, preschool, prekindergarten, childcare centres, and more. In addition to online professional development, it provides online certificate programmes that help meet the coursework requirements for national credentials such as the Child Development Associate (CDA), online Director’s Certificate, renewals, custom programmes, and other forms of continuing education.
