Objective:
The course objective is to focus on how to create a safe, healthy learning environment that helps infants and toddlers increase their physical, intellectual, and social qualities.
Learning Outcomes:
- describe how the caregiver impacts infants and toddlers through care, curriculum, individualization, and play
- define the effects of infant and toddler attachment, their cues, developmental processes, and cognition
- explain how language, emotion, and socialization affects infants and toddlers
- describe the best environment for professionals while interacting with children and families
General Course Topics:
- Infant and toddler attachment
- Cues
- Developmental processes
- Cognition
- Curriculum development