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Hey teachers, homeschoolers and parents it’s a new year, so why not try to make the best out of it! Have you thought of a New Year’s resolution? Instead of choosing a resolution that you may not be able to keep up with, why not choose one that will better you and is one that you know you will be able to uphold. This is a great time to consider working on bettering yourself by taking some early childhood professional development courses or better yet taking courses to receive your CDA — and CCEI is making it easy to do!
ChildCare Education Institute is the perfect training provider to check out for all your early childhood professional development courses for the new year — and here’s why!
Why Choose CCEI for your New Year’s Resolution?
When choosing a New Year resolution, like working on your professional development, CCEI offers massive benefits for your career as an ECE professional. Not sure how to set these goals and achieve them? Well, here’s how you achieve your 2020 professional development goals with CCEI’s help:
Make attainable goals
With broad goals it can be difficult to stay on track with your New Year’s resolution. Setting specific and realistic goals will help you to stay on track with what you need to accomplish to reach your goals. CCEI has education coaches readily available to help you anytime you need it.
Make a 2020 professional development plan
How will you make sure you stick with these goals? Create a schedule that maps out all the courses you’re going to take in 2020. Set an end goal — something you want to attain at the end — so you have something to work towards. To help make this process easier, CCEI offers a personalized dashboard where you can track the professional development courses you have taken. Consider your lifestyle and daily responsibilities when you’re creating your plan, so you can make the end goal attainable.
Become an expert
With over 150 courses to choose from in English and Spanish, you really have the flexibility to decide what you want to work on — you can find courses that are relevant to you and your life/career. CCEI offers courses in categories like health and safety, nutrition and food service, child development, inclusion and special needs, guidance and discipline, administration and management and so many more! Select a category that interests you and become your school’s expert in that topic. Once you’re a certified expert, your school can tout your skills on their website and social platforms.
Find accountability
Start a movement at your school and encourage your co-workers to work on their professional development along with you. Once you have achieved your attainable goals, throw a luncheon or classroom party to celebrate your successes — food makes a great incentive! Studies show, if you have accountability partners when you’re working to achieve a goal, the more likely you will follow through until the end.
Why I Love ChildCare Education Institute for My Professional Development!
I personally have taken quite a few professional development courses through CCEI. Some of these courses include CCEI110A: Indoor Safety in the Early Childhood Setting, CUR114: 21st Century Social Studies in Early Childhood Education and CUR115: Mathematical Talk and Play. They were so easy to navigate and the information was relevant to today’s ECE trends. The information learned helps to create new and exciting lesson plans.
It doesn’t matter if you are a teacher, homeschooler or a parent. ChildCare Education Institute has courses that will be relevant to what you need. I always choose CCEI for my professional development needs — and so should you!
What to Expect When Taking a CCEI Course
On average, a course will take about an hour of your time. You will go through reading parts, answering questions, and tips to having an assessment. There is no stress to taking the assessment! There are 11 questions and you need to get at least a 70%. If you do not pass the assessment the first time around, you can take it up to 10 times thereafter until you do pass with at least a 70% or better! After passing the assessment you receive your certificate to print!
One of the many reasons I love CCEI and I keep coming back to them for my professional development needs is they want you to succeed and accomplish your goals!
More About CCEI
ChildCare Education Institute provides high-quality, online training courses and programs, applicable to those who work in an array of child care settings, including center-based care, Head Start, family child care, prekindergarten classrooms, after school environments and more. Over 150 English and Spanish training courses are available to meet licensing, recognition programs, and Head Start Requirements. CCEI also has online certification programs that provide the coursework requirement for national credentials including the CDA, Director and Early Childhood Credentials. CCEI, a Council for Professional Recognition CDA Gold Standard℠ training provider, is nationally accredited by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC) and is accredited as an authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).
Stats:
- 99 percent of students say they would recommend CCEI to others
- Over 5 million online course hours completed
- Graduated over 15,000 early childhood professionals from CDA and other certificate programs
- Web-based coursework, available 24/7/365
- 30 hours of new content added each year
- IACET CEUs awarded for completed coursework at no additional cost
Benefits to CCEI
CCEI offers so many benefits that other online providers don’t. I love that they are accredited by the industry’s leading associations including the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC), International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), Council for Professional Recognition, National Workforce Registry Alliance (NWRA), National Afterschool Association (NAA) and more.
Other benefits include:
- Take course at home on your own time and own pace
- Choose courses relevant to your current position
- No more traveling to take your courses
- Easy and straightforward classes
- Approved to award IACET CEUs for completed coursework at no additional cost
CCEI Offers Subscriptions
Are you the director or owner of a child care center? With CCEI, you can train your staff for an entire year for as little as $20 per staff member with a center-based annual training subscription! And did you know ChildCare Education Institute is the only training provider who offers an extensive Activities Library with over 10,000 activities at no additional cost as part of your annual center-based training subscription? It can be hard coming up with new ways to teach your students so that it is effective. With CCEI’s Activities Library feature, there’s no way you’ll run out of ideas. This is a great tool for teachers and could help cut down the amount of time spent for planning each week!
Time to Better Yourself!
CCEI, in my opinion, is the best place to go for all your ECE professional development needs! You take the courses from the comfort of your home, at your own pace and on your own time!
So why not dedicate 2020 to bettering yourself by taking ECE professional development courses or better yet achieving your CDA!
Still not convinced? Want to know more about CCEI first? Check out my post on Professional Development for Early Childhood Education You Can Do From Home
Are you ready to start your journey of bettering yourself?
Visit cceionline.edu and start your 2020 journey today!
Interested in reading another review on CCEI? Check out ECE Professional Development Course for Teaching Social Studies
