110 Orientation
In this orientation session participants will learn how the PACE Program works and the requirements for converting PACE workshops to credit. The first assignment is explained and when textbooks are available for borrowing, participants can pick them up at the orientation
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110 Environment Principles
Learn about the essential elements in an environment for young children, explore how to organize and manage these elements to ensure optimal opportunities for development. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components of environments for children that promote health, safety and learning.
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110 Infant & Toddler Environments
Explore how to evaluate, design, organize, and manage environments to meet the developmental needs of infants and toddlers. Selection of equipment and materials and planning for routines, are covered. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components of environments for children that promote health, safety and learning.
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110 Preschool & Primary Environments
Learn about and practice evaluating how safe, healthy, and stimulating the environment is. You will learn about the use of room arrangement, furnishings, equipment, materials, and the daily schedule to support development. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components of environments for children that promote health, safety and learning.
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110 The Learning Environment Unit Capstone
In this capstone you will review the information covered in the unit, present what you learned about the learning environments you studied, turn in your assignment and take the knowledge assessment. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components of environments for children that promote health, safety and learning.
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110 Health
There are a range of health issues and concerns in programs for young children. Learn critical skills of prevention in this workshop. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components that promote health, safety, and learning for young children.
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110 Safety
Learn about your important role in assuring that children have safe, secure, and stimulating environments in which to learn and develop. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components that promote health, safety, and learning for young children.
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110 Nutrition
Explore the powerful associations and connections people and children have with food. Learn to encourage children to try new foods while respecting individual tastes and preferences. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components that promote nutrition learning.
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110 Health, Safety, and Nutrition Capstone
At this capstone you present your assignment, review the unit, turn in your assignment, and take the knowledge assessment. Outcome: Identify and analyze the components that promote health, safety, and nutrition for young children.
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110 What is Play?
Learn the various stages of play and the theorists whose work help us to understand the importance of play. Outcome: Explain how play contributes to development and learning for all children.
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110 Play and Curriculum
This workshop teaches you the relationship between play in a planned environment and a way to develop curriculum to nurture developmental goals. Outcome: Explain how play contributes to development and learning for all children.
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110 Curriculum Planning
In this workshop you will learn how to develop curriculum plans to nurture developmental goals for children. You will be introduced to planning an integrated study and it’s relationship to curriculum content standards, also called early learning standards. In Hawai‘i it is call the Hawai‘i Early Learning and Developmental Standards (HELDS).
Learner Outcomes
Learn how curriculum is appropriately designed for young children.
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110 Play and Curriculum Unit Capstone
At this workshop you will present your developmentally appropriate play-based activity and plan, review the unit, take the knowledge assessment, and turn in your assignment. Outcome: Select and demonstrate age and individually appropriate play-based activities for every child.
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110 Guidance Foundations
At this workshop we explore what kind of world we would most like to live in and the kind of people who would be needed to make that world possible. This enables us to evaluate the long-term effects of the way we guide children. Outcome: Express appropriate ways to relate to and guide every young child.
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110 Peaceful Conflict Resolution
Come and learn effective strategies to guide young children in the classroom including conflict resolution. Outcome: Express appropriate ways to relate to and guide every young child.
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110 Guidance Through the Ages
Explore guidance strategies that are nurturing and appropriate for our very youngest, infant and toddlers. Outcome: Express appropriate ways to relate to and guide every young child.
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110 Relationships & Guidance Unit Capstone
At this workshop you review the major ideas and skills covered in the unit, discuss and hand in your assignment, and take the knowledge assessment for the unit. Outcome: Express appropriate ways to relate to and guide every young child.