Child Care Online Course Categories
Welcome to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension's Child Care Online Training website. We offer a wide variety of online child care training courses to support your continuing education and early childhood professional development needs, whether you work with young children in a preschool, Head Start, or other early care and education setting. Please choose a child development category below for more details on the individual child care courses offered.
| Note: To continue offering high-quality online training, the price of many of our courses will be increasing over the next several weeks. This includes charging a fee for courses that were previously free. The fees generated from the online courses will enable us to develop new trainings and help cover hosting costs. Thank you for your understanding as we strive to continue to provide you with convenient, affordable, and high-quality online training. |
Is Online Child Care Training for You?
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Understanding Infant And Toddler Development
Research indicates that the first three years of life are critical for physical, social-emotional, and intellectual development. You will learn about developmental patterns, the domains of development, practical strategies for encouraging optimal development, and how to recognize signs of potential developmental delays.
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An Introduction to Inclusive Child Care for Preschool and School-Age Children
This 2-hour course is the first in a series of online trainings designed to help child care providers and directors gain a better understanding of how to create an inclusive child care environment for preschool and school-age children with special needs.
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Activity-Based Support in Inclusive Preschool and School-Age Child Care
All children need opportunities to play, but for children with disabilities, some types of play may be challenging - if not impossible - without adjustments to the environment, materials, or activities. During this 2-hour course, we will discuss how all children benefit from play and ways to make play activities accessible.
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Strategies for Caring for Children with Challenging Behaviors
Dealing with challenging behavior is a difficult aspect of providing care for young children. This course is designed to help child care professionals learn more about why infants and toddlers use challenging behavior, what they can do to prevent this behavior, and how to effectively respond when prevention is not enough. -
Establishing a Healthy and Safe Environment for Preschool and School-Age Children with Special Needs
This course is designed to help child care providers and directors gain a better understanding of how to create a healthy, safe, and inclusive child care environment for preschool and school-age children. You will learn how to establish such an environment through daily practices to ensure the health and safety of children.
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Activity-Based Support for Children with Different Developmental and Functional Needs
This course examines key components of an appropriate environment for infants and toddlers, focusing specifically on how materials and activities can be modified, if necessary, to ensure that children with different developmental and functional needs are successful in the child care setting.
