Child Day Care Course

More often than not, a child day care is a facility or institution that provides child care during the day when children’s parents are out or at work. In this place, a child gets to mingle with other children.

Most countries have laws concerning childcare, which protect the children and ensure that their welfare is promoted. Child day cares provide a structured and stable environment, engages children in fun activities such singing, dancing and storytelling. Such activities also help hone their creativity and even social skills.

A child day care makes children feel that they are just playing when in fact they are already learning. As child day cares are growing in number nowadays, it is the quality of service and genuine concern for the children that can make a child day care stand out. Learn today so you can get closer to starting your own child day care.

At the end of this course, students shall learn how to:

(1) understand child day care;

(2) help promote child development;

(3) be familiar with OFSTED Guidelines;

(4) create activities;

(5) promote healthcare;

(6) understand about nutrition; and

(7) babysit.

To achieve these goals, this course shall make use of interactive materials to present the concepts of the topics to be discussed. Assessments shall be done after the entire course to check for knowledge retention and understanding.

Course Overview

• Unit 1 – Introduction to Child Day Care
  • Approaches to early childhood development
  • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Unit 2 – Childhood Development
  • Standards for Early Childhood Development (ECD) services
  • Function of minimum standards
• Unit 3 – Guidelines from Ofsted
  • National Standard Guidelines from OFSTED
  • Identifying problems using OFSTED requirements
• Unit 4 – Activities
  • Rights and needs of children
  • Creating ECD programs and activities
• Unit 5 – Healthcare
  • Evaluating First Aid courses in ECD
  • Universal precautions in ECD center
• Unit 6 – Nutrition
  • General guidelines for planning the daily menu and for preparing food
  • Feeding of infants under one year of age
• Unit 7 – Babysitting and Daycare Services
  • Dos and don’ts in babysitting
  • General babysitting guidelines

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be awarded an IOLEN Certificate of Achievement from IOLEN Accreditation. This should help validate their learning experience and skill, and can be used as a resume builder.

Course Format

This course is divided into several modules and is delivered online through our interactive learning management system. Students are given access to the learning portal where they can access the course 24/7. This gives them complete control over the pace of their learning while also enabling them to study from home, in their offices or from a laptop while traveling.

Course Duration:

Normative or minimum period of study to complete this is 30 hours. Take note that this is only an estimate. The duration of completing the course still depends on the learner’s pace and ability to absorb information. Additionally, as the course is delivered online, learners have the options to divide and study the course in multiple session or go through it one go.

Learners will be given full access to this course for 12 months from the date of enrolment. During this period, learners are given the flexibility to complete the course at anytime.

• Allow you to keep up to date on the aspects of your career
• Give you an insight into your chosen career path
• Fill in the gaps of any knowledge you may not have
• Enhance your resume
• Show you are a committed learner

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