Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care

Course Title:

Advanced Training in Early Childhood Education and Care

This is foundation level certificate that will enhance knowledge to develop children’s: cognitive, physical, social and emotional development, working in partnership with parents and learning about; professional work ethics, child protection policy and procedures, observation and class management.

The Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care is a great program for those looking to gain a comprehensive overview of a range of subject matter areas within the early childhood field. This course gives you an introduction to all areas of child development, child observation and assessment, working with parents, classroom management, and reporting cases of suspected child abuse.

Course Benefits

• 24/7 access to all of your course materials- all lessons, assignments and resources are available from the moment you enroll.
• Study in your own time and work through your assignments at your own pace.
• Opportunity to build up a comprehensive range of knowledge and skills to support your future career within the Early Years sector.
• You will be much more employable in the sector and able to begin progressing in a position within an early years setting.

Certificate Sample

Course Contents

This program consists of 18 units within 7 themes:

• Children’s Cognitive Development.
• Children’s Language Development.
• Children’s Social and Emotional Development.
• Children’s Physical Development.
• Principles of Child Development and Learning to Inform Practice.
• Child Development Theories.
• Emergent Literacy Development.
• Learning Environments to enhance Creativity.
• Learning Centers.
• Establishing a Sense of Community in the Classroom.
• Positive Guidance for Challenging Behavior.
• Observations and Assessment Skills for Early Childhood Educators.
• Establishing Productive Relationships with Parents.
• Child Protection Reporting Procedures.
• Working in Partnership.
• Classroom Management, Planning, and Record-keeping.
• Activity Planning.
• Curriculum in Early Childhood Programs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this program for?

We recommend this course for teaching assistants, trainee teachers, parents, and child carers. This course is also appropriate for professionals not directly working with children who would like to gain knowledge about early childhood. For example, program directors without an educational background in early childhood, policy makers, and others.

How long does it take to complete this program?

You will have 4 month or 120 days to complete this program. Guided learning hours are set at 108, this is based on the average amount of time taken to achieve this qualification, over an average completion period of 4 months.

What are the requirements to sign up for this course?

• Learners must be at least 18 years of age and a minimum high school certificate.
• Learners must have an appropriate level of reading, writing, and communication skills.
• Learners must be able to surf the internet, send and receive emails and complete work using a computer.

What will the assessments be like?

In order to achieve this certificate, the learner must complete the following:

• Quiz: You will complete a quiz consisting of multiple-choice questions.
• Workbook: You will also receive a workbook that includes written assignments, reflective activities.

*Please note that you must achieve a minimum of 70% score to pass this unit.

Is this course accredited?

This course is certified by Arabian Child in Partnership with Global Childhood Academy. Arabian Child is the leading early childhood training institute serving the Middle East region. All our training programs are accredited by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority UAE (KHDA).

How much does the course cost?

This course will cost you AED 1,800 or $490 US Dollars including registration fee, VAT and e-certificate. To get Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) attestation additional cost applies.

Terms and Conditions

• Learners are required to check the regulatory or governing body in-country to ensure they meet requirements for becoming a licensed early childhood teacher. Our recommendations are based on the experience of graduating thousands of teachers in the last 15 years.
• Course fees inclusive of 5% VAT, registration fee, and e-certificate.
• Course fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.

What Will I Learn In this Course?

• Planning a safe, healthy learning environment.
• Understanding principles of child development and learning.
• Advancing children’s physical and intellectual development.
• Understand how to support children’s social and emotional development.
• Understand the importance of observation and assessments.
• How to build productive relationships with parents and families.
• Know Child Protection Legislation and follow appropriate procedures for safeguarding children.

Our Testimonials

Nine Genis

Since I have completed an Advanced Certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care I was able to get a job at a nursery as a teacher assistant and it was all thanks to that course and Arabian Child. I am very excited to learn lots more practices and information and become a teacher myself one day.

Alia Telo

I had great experience with easy and fast communication with instructors, user-friendly learning platform and the fact that assignment tasks push you to dive into the topic and develop your knowledge and understanding of early years education.

Maab Faiz Amaan

The course is designed in such a way where the learner will be able to do the learning at their own pace. The course contents are designed meticulously in order to achieve the objectives of the lesson while encouraging the learner to engage in more research too. The course is indeed a success as it has become capable of not merely covering the main objective of each unit, but delivers knowledge to the learner in a broader scale pertaining to Early Childhood Education.

Yusra Abdulbaki Alsaid

The course was an overall success and interesting to study. I highly recommend Introduction to Early Childhood Education and Care and Arabian Child to new and existing child care practitioners to do this course and be able to provide a healthy, safe and enabling environment.

Locally & Internationally Accredited

Arabian Child is a leading teacher training institute accredited by International UK awarding bodies and local regulatory authorities. Arabian Child has offices in Boston, Dubai, Bahrain, Riyadh and Oman offering 120 programs from 15 years to more than 14,000 learners.

The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) is responsible for the growth, direction and quality of private education and learning in Dubai.

Global Childhood Academy (GCA) is a global online learning platform. GCA is one of the world’s top platforms that serves the best training providers from around the world.

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