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Professional Development
Discover the elements of cognitive growth, common barriers, and how to overcome them — at the level of an individual setting or across an entire system.
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In early learning, children’s cognitive development is a critical focus. Teaching for Cognitive Growth helps you understand the relationship between early educators’ competencies and children’s cognitive growth. In this module, you’ll learn the structures and processes that increase cognitive growth among young children. You’ll discover common barriers to cognitive growth and how to overcome them — at the level of an individual setting or across an entire system.
In this Learn module, you’ll focus on setting conditions to support children’s cognitive development. Three key concepts guide your progress:
Each Learn module runs for three weeks and requires approximately 10 hours of work. The Plan and Apply module runs for four weeks and requires approximately 15 hours of work. To earn the full CEEL certificate, you must complete all 15 modules. You can begin with any Learn module and take Learn modules in any order. Participants who complete all four Learn modules in a Series can take the Learn and Apply module at no cost.
In this module, you’ll learn to:
Nonie Lesaux focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds.
Stephanie Jones focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on children’s development and assesses the impact of social-emotional learning interventions.
CEEL is designed for early education leaders and practitioners, including:
Professional Education is excited to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for your successful participation in this program. The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is a nationally and internationally recognized unit of measurement for non-credit continuing education programs. As an IACET Accredited Provider, Professional Education offers IACET CEUs for learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
Requirements to be eligible to earn CEUs:
Upon successfully meeting all requirements outlined above, you will be notified via email that you have A) earned the certificate of completion for the program and B) are now eligible to earn CEUs. This email will contain the link to complete the required reflection assignment if you wish to receive CEUs, along with a submission deadline and time frame for receiving your CEUs. After submitting your reflection assignment, we will notify you via email of your CEU status, and if you have met all requirements, you will be able to download and view your CEU certificate at this point in time.
Note: Professional Education is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes the quality of continuing education and training.
The following discounts are available for eligible individuals and groups. Please contact us to receive your discount codes. Please note that none of the discounts can be combined with another discount code. There is no tuition assistance available for this program at the moment.
*Groups for Series need to register for all five modules at once before Learn A’s registration deadline and pay for the entire amount before Learn A starts.