Health, Safety, and Nutrition

ECED-120: Health, Safety, and Nutrition

Interested in creating safe, healthy environments where young children thrive? This learning path equips you with the essential knowledge needed to lead and teach in early learning settings. You'll explore the laws, regulations, and best practices that ensure children's health, safety, and well-being. Learn how to support both physical and mental well-being for children and staff, work effectively with healthcare providers, and integrate health and safety into your daily planning and activities.

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This micro-course will provide you with a general understanding of the various duties, procedures, challenges, and changes that are essential to recognize and consider when developing a successful career path as an early childhood professional. During this course, you will evaluate and synthesize a variety of concepts related to early childhood development, including the importance of good nutrition, disease prevention, and other health issues, as well as nurturing safe and educational environments, and identifying mental health and abuse issues. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge to maximize health, safety, and nutrition in early childhood environments.

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of badge one, you will be able to:

  1. Analyze the quality and developmental appropriateness of meal-time environments for toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children.
  2. Analyze the impact of the early years on children's life-long health and nutritional status.
  3. Explain how health, safety, and nutrition are interrelated.
  4. Identify current trends that affect a child's health.
  5. Explore how a child's culture and environment could affect their developmental growth.
  6. Develop meal plans and snacks that meet children's varying nutritional needs.

This micro-course will provide you with a general understanding of the various duties, procedures, challenges, and changes that are essential to recognize and consider when developing a successful career path as an early childhood professional. During this course, you will evaluate and synthesize a variety of concepts related to early childhood development, including the importance of good nutrition, disease prevention, and other health issues, as well as nurturing safe and educational environments, and identifying mental health and abuse issues. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge to maximize health, safety, and nutrition in early childhood environments.

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of badge one, you will be able to:

  1. Describe the teacher's role in managing illness and common infectious diseases.
  2. Analyze ways to address children's varied mental health needs.

This micro-course will provide you with a general understanding of the various duties, procedures, challenges, and changes that are essential to recognize and consider when developing a successful career path as an early childhood professional. During this course, you will evaluate and synthesize a variety of concepts related to early childhood development, including the importance of good nutrition, disease prevention, and other health issues, as well as nurturing safe and educational environments, and identifying mental health and abuse issues. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge to maximize health, safety, and nutrition in early childhood environments.

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of badge one, you will be able to:

  1. Identify developmentally appropriate practices and outcomes for Early Childhood students.
  2. Develop safety awareness activities for young children.
  3. Describe ways that early childhood educators can partner with families to provide for children's special health care needs.

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