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Resource 1:  The Council of Professional Recognition cdacouncil.org The Council of Professional Recognition allows early childhood professionals to receive their Child Development Associate certificate.  It provides resources and classes that will help the early childhood professional complete CDA milestones.  There are different programs, opportunities and resources that are available through the council from conferences to on-line training. Resource 2:  Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association (OCCRRA) occrra.org OCCRRA allows the early childhood professional to take accredited classes that must be met and approved by the Ohio Standards and a early childhood professional must register with OCCRRA before they can work in a daycare facility.

Resource 1:  The KROC Center kroc.salvationarmy.org The KROC Center provides a fun, educational time for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and school agers.  You can bring your children into the Tech Cafe located in the educational building.  They will pre-plan all activities so that parents and children can participate which will engage their minds and creativity.   Resource 2:  The YWCA Dayton theywcadayton.org The YWCA Dayton is one of largest and oldest women's organization in the nation.  The YWCA Dayton continues to be in the forefront of special moments and social movements for the past 150 years; from voting to civil right, affordable housing to equity in pay.  They provide early childhood education and are connected with other child care centers within the city and county. 

Resource 1:  Child Education Programs - Child Care Programs www.goddardschool.com/programs/childcare The Goddard School child care program is not like your average child care facility.  They use the most current proven methods to assure that children are having fun while they are learning and developing skills.  They offer foreign languages, yoga, and world cultures.   Resource 2:  Wee Care Day Care Company www.weecaredaycare.info Wee Care Day Care's philosophy is to first serve God, help the parent, develop the child and benefit the community.  This four-step procedure allows the Wee Care Day Care Company to provide family engagement in all realms, spiritually, parentally, pedogocial, and communal.

Resource 1:  Cultural Diversity/Early Childhood Development child.unl.edu This source provides effective early childhood education for professional to understand and embrace diversity.  The Culture, Logistics, and Ability Diversity (CLAD)  support special individuals that have individualized values, strengths, and potential of each child and family. It is a better kid care module that explores how to gather better insight.   Resource 2:  European Early Childhood Education Research Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/13502930085208591 This article theoretical perspective of interpretive reproduction on how a child's production and participation in their own environments that helps them to evolve and become evolving membership in society.

 Resource 1:  Brightwheel www.info.mybrightwheel.com/brightwheel/software Brightwheel is a childcare management software.  Early childhood education is a preferred solution versus doing paperwork by hand.  The software is user-friendly and it can help run and manage a daycare center or a school.  It aligns with state standards and regulations and can be customized to the education center's philosophy. Resource 2:  An Inernational Research Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/0957514990200102 This article shows how definitions of quality of how early childhood education is evaluated and the role that this has in directing policies.  The setting and regulating of standards, assessing services, and developing criteria for improvement for practictioners and students.

 Resource 1:  Childhood Education naeyc.org/about/positions/PSREDY98.asp The NAEYC position statement on school readiness explains the promoting that universal school readiness involves addressing inequalities in early life experiences, recognizing individual circumstances among children and establishing reasonable solutions. Resource 2:  YC: Young Children ncu.edu Revisiting the NAEYC position statement on the Develoopmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP).  This article reports an update on issues concerning the revision of the statement of the DAP of the NAEYC in the United States.  This article gives more information on the alignment and transition between pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.

 Resource 1:  Early Education and Development http://dx.doi.org.proxy1.ncu.edu/10.1207/s15566935eed1601_6 This article discusses the governing board of NAEYC appointing a commission to review the NAEYC accreditation.   Resource 2:  NAEYC Accredition Standards naeyc.org This will provide all the accredidation standards that NAECY requires on their website and it will also discuss the importance for teachers to pursue in the accreditation program of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.  It also states that the program provides strength on the teacher's lesson plan and will inspire them to move ahead on their own careers.

 Resource 1:  In Computers and Education  ncu.edu This article aims to investigate the learning outcomes, related incidents, and assessment characteristics.  The results would indicate the consideration of the assessment of learning objective at the beginning of the course design could support the formulation of explicit assessment goals. Resource 2:  International Journal of Emerging Technology and Learning https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v15it1.18029 English teachoing plays an important role in college education.  It cannot just make students better, but to help students adapt to the world situations, as it has increasingly become an open and complex society.  English will allow student to receive attention of various colleges and universities as they still many problems in college English.  This article talks about assessment for learning based on an interactive teaching approach.

 Resource 1:  Zdorov'e Rebenka childhealth.zaslavsky.com.ua/article/view/73735 There are problems and misunderstanding in the process of teaching the topic of protein-energy malnutrition in children  to English speaking children in this article.  It highlights the differences and protocols of different countries.   Resource 2:  North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. https://eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet? This article produces a large study investigating Hong Kong perspective teachers subject matter knowlege and pedagogical knowledge.

 Resource 1:  Head Start www.headstart.org The Head Start program was designed to help break the cycle of poverty and to provide low-income children with a comprehensive program to social, emotional, nutritional, health and psychological needs. Resource 2:  Early Childhood Education Journal DOI: 10.1007/s10643-008-028-x  This article talks about teaching the standards as a Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) so that many chlidhood practicioners can offer students DAP learning experiences and their obligation to teach academic knowledge as mandated by their state.  This article offers ideas that were drawn from Bronfenbrenner, Vygotsky, and Dewey as sources of theoritical support.

 Resource 1:  Northcentral University ncu.edu A teaching facility that trains early childhood professional in most facets of education at the Master and Doctorate level of Early Childhood Education.   Resource 2:  Rasmussen College https://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/education/blog/7-teaching-strategies-for-ece-classroom/ Rasmussen College offers seven teaching strategies for early childhood education:  Logo/symbol labeling Sound recognition and matching Switch out activities Start a garden Get the senses involved in science Establish rules Tailor activities to the student

Resource 1:  The KROC Center www.kroc.salvationarmy.org  The KROC Center is a facility that is connected to 4C for Children that allows early childhood educators to get accredited and non-accredited training on an array of subjects  in the early childhod education field. Resource 2:  Wee Care Day Care Company weecaredaycare.info  Wee Care Day Care (WCDC) is a facility that teaches early childhood educators courses that are necessary to pursue a career in early childhood development.  Courses include:  Child Development Associate (CDA), Child Abuse, Communicable Disease, First Aid and CPR including infant CPR.

  Greetings, we are excited about our daycare's new services. Wee Care Day Care now serves infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school agers.  My name is Leo I. Smith and I am the owner and a teacher at Wee Care Day Care.  The class that I focus on in the daycare is preschool.  I was awarded a Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential which is the most widely recognized national credential in Early Childhood Education awarded by the Council of Early Childhood Professional Recognition.  The CDA is based on a core set of competency standards that guide early childhood professionals.   The philosophy of the eight standards include:    Planning a safe and healthy learning environment Advancing children's physical and intellectual development Supporting children's social and emotional development Building productive relationships with families Managing effective program operation Maintaing a committment to professionalism Observing and recording children's behavior Unders