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Getting Ready to Work With Youth
This course is designed for professionals who are either new to youth work or looking to refresh their skills. In just 30 minutes, you’ll gain essential insights and practical strategies for effectively engaging and supporting young people aged 5-18.
What you’ll learn (or refresh your skills in):
✔ Creating inclusive and supportive learning environments
✔ Building strong relationships with youth to foster a sense of belonging
✔ Integrating youth voice and choice into your work
✔ Understanding and disrupting bias
This short course offers a concise introduction, with each tip being part of a more comprehensive course available in our Change Up Learning library.
This course will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
This course satisfies these child care training requirements:
- Core Knowledge and Competencies: 1. Child and Youth Growth and Development
- Core Knowledge and Competencies: 4. Learning Environment and Curriculum
- Indiana: Core Knowledge and Competencies
- : Indiana
- Early Childhood - Continuing Education: 1. Child Development
- Early Childhood - Continuing Education: 2. Child Guidance
- Louisiana: Early Childhood - Continuing Education
- : Louisiana
- Early Care and Education Knowledge Base: 1. Child Development
- Early Care and Education Knowledge Base: 4. Teaching and engagement
- Early Care and Education Knowledge Base: 6. Professionalism
- Montana: Early Care and Education Knowledge Base
- : Montana
- Child Care Training Regulations: 1. Child Development
- Vermont: Child Care Training Regulations
- : Vermont
- ECE Competencies: 1. Child Development and Learning
- ECE Competencies: 3. Relationships, Interactions, and Guidance
- ECE Competencies: 10. Leadership in Early Childhood Education
- : California
- California: ECE Competencies
- Early Care & Education Professional Development Content Areas: 1. Child Development and Learning in Context
- Early Care & Education Professional Development Content Areas: 4. Developmentally, Culturally, and Linguistically Appropriate Teaching Practices
- Early Care & Education Professional Development Content Areas: 6. Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator
- Missouri: Early Care & Education Professional Development Content Areas
- : Missouri
- Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Staff: 1. Child development, including discipline, guidance, nutrition, injury control and safety
- Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Directors: d. Developmentally appropriate practices
- Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Directors: e. Professional and leadership development
- Georgia: Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Directors
- Georgia: Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Staff
- Early Care and Education Professional Competency Goals for Directors: f. Advocacy for the Center, Parents, children and Staff
- : Georgia
- Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators: 1. Child growth and development, and learning or courses that align with the competency domains of child growth and development
- Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators: 7. Program planning and development
- Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators: 8. Teaching practices
- : Colorado
- Colorado: Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and Administrators
- Standards of Early Learning and Development: 1. Childhood Development
- Standards of Early Learning and Development: 3. Quality Child Care and Licensing
- : Alabama
- Alabama: Standards of Early Learning and Development
- Early Learning and Development Standards: 1. Early Childhood Education and Child Development
- : Connecticut
- Connecticut: Early Learning and Development Standards
- Early Childhood Professional Learning Categories: 1. Learning Communities
- Tennessee: Early Childhood Professional Learning Categories
- : Tennessee
- Hawaii: 1. Pilina (Relationships)
- 1. Pilina (Relationships): 1a. Pilina (Relationships) between Staff and Youth
- Hawaii: 2.Learning and Development
- 2.Learning and Development: 2a. Youth Learning and Development
- : Hawaii
- Core Knowledge and Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals: 2. Child and youth development
- West Virginia: Core Knowledge and Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals
- : West Virginia
- Teachers of Early Childhood Education Subject Matter Standards: 2. Developmentally appropriate learning experiences
- Teachers of Early Childhood Education Subject Matter Standards: 5. Historical and contemporary development of early childhood education
- : Minnesota
- Minnesota: Teachers of Early Childhood Education Subject Matter Standards
- National Afterschool Association Competencies: 2. Learning Environment and Curriculum
- National Afterschool Association Competencies: 4. Interactions with Children and Youth
- National Afterschool Association Competencies: 5. Youth Engagement
- : National
- National: National Afterschool Association Competencies
- Department of Children, Youth & Families: Child Care Provider Training Requirements: 2. Learning environment and curriculum
- Department of Children, Youth & Families: Child Care Provider Training Requirements: 6. Interactions with children/youth
- Washington: Department of Children, Youth & Families: Child Care Provider Training Requirements
- : Washington
- Department of Early Education & Care Standards: 2. Planning Programs and Environments for Young Children
- Massachusetts: Department of Early Education & Care Standards
- : Massachusetts
- Quality Standards for OST Programs: 2: Relationships and Interactions
- : North Dakota
- North Dakota: Quality Standards for OST Programs
- School Age Child Care: 3. Child Day Care Program Development
- : New York
- New York: School Age Child Care
- All Staff Annual Training: 3. Child Guidance
- Director Annual Training: 4. Child Guidance
- South Carolina: All Staff Annual Training
- South Carolina: Director Annual Training
- : South Carolina
- Department of Social Services, Child Care Services (CCS): Pathway to Professional Development: 3. Guidance and behavior management
- Department of Social Services, Child Care Services (CCS): Pathway to Professional Development: 11. Learning environments
- Department of Social Services, Child Care Services (CCS): Pathway to Professional Development: 12. Age-appropriate activities and planning
- South Dakota: Department of Social Services, Child Care Services (CCS): Pathway to Professional Development
- : South Dakota
- Core Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals: 3. Learning Environments
- Core Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals: 10. Guidance
- Nebraska: Core Competencies for Early Childhood Professionals
- : Nebraska
- Child Care Centers Professional Growth and Development Training Requirements: 3. Positive ways to support children’s social and emotional development (includes guidance and discipline)
- Child Care Centers Professional Growth and Development Training Requirements: 6. Maintaining a commitment to professionalism
- Child Care Centers Professional Growth and Development Training Requirements: 7. Observing and recording children’s behavior
- Iowa: Child Care Centers Professional Growth and Development Training Requirements
- : Iowa
- Program Quality Practices: 3. Relationships
- Program Quality Practices: 4. Child and Youth Engagement
- Wyoming: Program Quality Practices
- : Wyoming
- Early Learning eGuidelines Competencies: 4. Preparing for and Including Young Children in the Child Care Setting
- Early Learning eGuidelines Competencies: d. Preparing for and Including Young Children in the Child Care Setting
- Idaho: Early Learning eGuidelines Competencies
- : Idaho
- The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Training: 5. Guidance and discipline techniques
- : Mississippi
- Mississippi: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Training
- Early Childhood Educator Requirements: Birth to Second Grade: 5. Health, safety, physical activity, and nutrition
- : Delaware
- Delaware: Early Childhood Educator Requirements: Birth to Second Grade
- B-3 Continuum: 5. Joint Professional Development
- Illinois: B-3 Continuum
- : Illinois
- Early Childhood Education and Care Department: 5. Learning environment and curriculum implementation
- New Mexico: Early Childhood Education and Care Department
- : New Mexico
- Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners: 5. Learning environments and curriculum
- Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners: 6. Interactions with children
- Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners: 7. Program planning, development and evaluation
- Oklahoma: Core Competencies for Early Childhood Practitioners
- : Oklahoma
- Core Knowledge Areas from the Michigan Core Knowledge and Core Competencies for the Early Care and Education Workforce: 5. Teaching and learning
- Core Knowledge Areas from the Michigan Core Knowledge and Core Competencies for the Early Care and Education Workforce: 7. Interactions and guidance
- Michigan: Core Knowledge Areas from the Michigan Core Knowledge and Core Competencies for the Early Care and Education Workforce
- : Michigan
- Childcare Program: Continuing Education: 8. Leadership, child care administration, or mentoring
- New Hampshire: Childcare Program: Continuing Education
- : New Hampshire
- Department of Early Learning and Care: Training: 8. Understanding and Guiding Behavior
- Oregon: Department of Early Learning and Care: Training
- : Oregon
- Department of Human Services Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education Child Care Licensing Unit: 16. Basic child development
- : Arkansas
- Arkansas: Department of Human Services Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education Child Care Licensing Unit
- Department of Children and Families (Annual In-Service Training): 19. Age-appropriate lesson planning
- Department of Children and Families (Annual In-Service Training): 23. Other course areas relating to child care or child care management
- Florida: Department of Children and Families (Annual In-Service Training)
- : Florida
- Early Childhood Education Professional Learning Standards: A. Child Growth and Development
- : Arizona
- Early Childhood Education Professional Learning Standards: C. Program administration, planning, development, or management
- Arizona: Early Childhood Education Professional Learning Standards
- Kansas: Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines
- Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines: I. Child/Adolescent Growth and Development
- : Kansas
- Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines: VI. Interactions with Children/Youth/Others
- Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines: VII. Program Planning and Development
- Child Care Facilities: Staff Development Topics: c. Positive ways to support children's social and emotional development
- North Carolina: Child Care Facilities: Staff Development Topics
- : North Carolina
- New Jersey: Department of Children & Families: Staff Training Requirements for Childcare Centers
- : New Jersey
- Department of Children & Families: Staff Training Requirements for Childcare Centers: vi. Creating a classroom environment
- Nevada: Department of Education: Standards for Professional Development
- Department of Education: Standards for Professional Development: g. Classroom management, which must include, without limitation, positive discipline and guidance and social, emotional, and academic development
- : Nevada
- Wisconsin: Division of Early Care and Education: Staff Development
- Division of Early Care and Education: Staff Development: k. Guiding children’s behavior
- : Wisconsin
- Texas: Early Childhood Education: Professional Development Areas
- Early Childhood Education: Professional Development Areas: Pre-Service 3. Positive guidance and discipline of children
- Early Childhood Education: Professional Development Areas: Pre-Service 6. Positive interaction with children
- : Texas
Course Content
Introduction
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Course Includes
- 20 Lessons
- 1 Check-in
- Course Certificate