Module 1 - The Importance of Early Childhood Care & Education

• The formative years: physical, socio-emotional, language and cognitive ability
• Early childhood educators (ECEs) and early childhood education
• Cognition, developing motor skills, a sense of self, preparing children for education
• Early years settings, learning environments, early childhood developmental milestones

Module 2 - The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

• EYFS welfare and development goals, standards for childcare, measuring children’s progress
• Areas of learning and development, EYFS principles, Aims of EYFS curriculum and guidelines
• Learning goals, learning objectives, learning outcomes
• EYFS profile, observation and making assessments, uses of results from the profile

Module 3 - Early Childhood Educators

• ECE professionals, requirements, duties and responsibilities, essential character traits
• Providing a learning environment for young children, planning, supervision, safety
• Addressing children’s emotional, cognitive, social and physical needs, developing children’s social skills
• ECE education and training, professional development, staying up to date with research

Module 4 - Early Childhood Learning Environments

• Safe, responsive, and nurturing early learning environments, physical and environmental factors
• Transitioning in learning environments, learning through play, materials, learning opportunities
• Social interactions, children and teachers, collaborative activities, areas of interest, daily schedules and routines
• Designing learning spaces for safety, children’s bodies, accessibility, stimulation, special needs

Module 5 - Pedagogy

• Education programmes, courses, modules, units, lessons, subjects, topics, the importance of play
• Components of pedagogy, strategies, influencing learning, positive outcomes, teaching methodology
• Curriculums, learning processes, cognitive skills, the three principles of learning
• Pre-school, kindergarten, developing school-readiness skills, play schools, playgroups

Module 6 - Teaching Strategies and Methods

• Teaching and instructional strategies, teacher-oriented and student-oriented teaching
• Teaching methodology, methods used for instructing a class, how teachers explain or teach
• Educational philosophy, a teacher’s choice of teaching methods, interactive teaching
• Pre-school teaching methods: playway, Reggio Emilia, Montessori, Waldorf Steiner, Bank Street, STEM, Head Start programs

Module 7 - Children’s Learning Styles and Domains

• Understanding how young children learn, sensory perception, creativity and skills development, learning and experience
• Developmental domains: physical, language, emotional, intellectual, social, arts and crafts
• Learning styles, ways in which information is processed, perception, human senses
• Cognitive learning, skills and milestones, forming memories, making decisions, attention spans, passive and active learning, the learning pyramid

Module 8 - Memory and Learning

• Intelligent behaviour and remembering information; explicit, declarative and implicit memory
• Memory and understanding, imagination, multi-sensory experiences, behavioural guidance
• Memory processes, encoding, storage, retrieval; sensory, short-term, working and long-term memory, memory problems
• Techniques, methods and tips for helping children improve memory

Module 9 - Styles of Teaching, Motivation & Engagement of Early Learners

• ECEs and different styles of teaching, adapting teaching style to class and subject matter
• Motivating children’s learning, methods of motivating pre-schoolers
• Learner engagement, children’s attention, curiosity, hands-on activities, manipulatives
• Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, praise as a motivator, positive comments, truthful valuation, body language signals

Module 10 - Classroom Community, Co-operative Learning, Psychological Needs

• Building a classroom community, attitudes and values, the ECE’s role, planning and practice, respectable behaviour, belonging and acceptance
• Co-operative learning, positive interdependence, learning to share, ECEs as facilitators, teamwork activities
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, physiological-biological, safety-security, belonging-love, esteem and ego, self-actualisation, lower and higher order needs
• Maslow’s hierarchy applied to education, children and pre-school children

Module 11 - Early Learning Classroom Management

• Daily class schedules, structure, classroom procedures, methods and reminders, acceptable behaviour
• Classroom routines, creating patterns and familiarity, repetition and habit, classroom rules
• Free-choice time, the ECE’s facilitator role, scaffolding children’s learning, daily routines, transitions between activities
• Questions and questioning, types of questions, effective questioning, responding to children’s questions

Module 12 - Early Learners with Special Needs

• Definitions of special needs, special educational needs, disability, developmental delays, impairment, putting the child first
• Inclusive child care, ECEs in inclusive classrooms, school administrators, socialisation and friendships, children with special needs and typically-developing children
• Developmental delays in children, types, possible effects and problems; speech, hearing, visual, social and emotional disabilities and child care
• Learning disabilities and child care, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ASHD; indications of learning disability

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE MODEST CIC FEE

 Your CIC Fee includes:-

• Your enrolment/registration with Cambridge International College, and your own high-quality, professionally produced and illustrated comprehensive International CIC Study & Training Publications.
• A detailed, professional ‘Study & Training Guide’ with full instructions on how to study to achieve success and gain top results.  The Guide includes detailed advice on how to answer Self-Assessment Tests, Training Tests and Examinations.
• Self-Assessment Tests and Recommended Answers for them, and a Progress Chart.
• Two Progress/Training Tests (which can be used as ‘Past Papers/Questions’) with an optional Tutorial Support Service.
• The Final Examination** sat under Invigilation/Supervision in your own area - full details, guidance and explanation of how your Examination will be arranged and how Invigilation is conducted will be provided when you register.  Note, CIC arranges Examinations in over a hundred countries worldwide for thousands of Members every year; it is a flexible, straightforward process and will be arranged when YOU are ready to write your Examination.  **An Assignment Option is available instead of an Exam for the ‘Covid-19’ (Corona) virus period. 
• The prestigious Cambridge International College Diploma on successful completion of your Study & Training and on passing the Final Examination.
• Your personal page on CIC’s Member Services website with access to results, despatch details, advice and guidance, and more: www.cambridgeinternationalcollege.co.uk
• Regular information and news including: Newsletters with details of special offers and new Programs and much more; and Competition Forms; by email and post.

Everything needed for your Study & Training success is included in the CIC Fee.

Additionally:

• Further Study and Training Advice, and Assistance is available before, during and after CIC Study & Training; Members may ask CIC’s team of experienced Consultants for advice on further study and Programmes to improve career prospects and advancement. 
• CIC’s experienced and helpful staff can assist with numerous special requests, such as reference/recommendation letters and transcripts, and more, by post and email

• Classroom Management & Psychology for Teachers Diploma 12 months (flexible)
• Education & School Leadership ABA: Advanced Business Administration 2 years (flexible)
• Education, School Leadership & Administration EBA: Executive Business Administration 3 years (flexible)
• Education Leadership & School Administration (BELA) Baccalaureate 2 years (flexible)

For men and women already working in early childhood care and education, you will become a better-informed, more competent, modern and up-to-date ECE, able to provide higher levels of care and education to the children you are responsible for.  For people yet to start a career or gain employment in the field of early childhood care and education, this Program will provide you with vital understanding, guidance, structure and in-sight on how to become a great, well-trained, understanding and inspirational ECE.

A range of related Programs are available at Diploma level, and there are higher-level Programmes at Baccalaureate and EBA level as well.