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Professional Development
Adults bring distinctive characteristics, strengths, and skills to their work in the early learning environment. Cornerstone Educator Competencies helps you enhance and support the educator competencies that underlie high-quality early education settings. You’ll explore how to develop these competencies, and learn skills and tools to create a reflective, continuously learning workforce.
In this Learn module, you’ll explore the strengths, skills, and competencies that adults bring to the early learning environment. You’ll focus on these three competencies:
Each Learn module runs for three weeks and requires approximately 10 hours of work. The Plan and Apply modules run for four weeks and require approximately 15 hours of work. To earn the full CEEL certificate, you must complete all 15 modules. You can begin with any Learn module and take these modules in any order. When you successfully complete four modules within the same series, you are eligible to take the fifth module for free. Please contact us after registering for the fifth module so we can zero out your tuition.
In this module, you’ll learn to:
Nonie Lesaux focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds.
Stephanie Jones focuses on the effects of poverty and exposure to violence on children’s development and assesses the impact of social-emotional learning interventions.
CEEL is designed for early education leaders and practitioners, including:
This program welcomes registrations from both individuals and teams. First-time registrants need to create a Professional Education account to register.
Individuals: Click the "Register" button at the top of this page to log into your Professional Education account and access the registration page. Proceed with the individual form until submission. Invoices will be immediately available upon the submission of the form.
Teams:
Designate one participant or an administrative staff member as the Coordinator.
Professional Education is excited to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for your successful participation in this program. The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is a nationally and internationally recognized unit of measurement for non-credit continuing education programs. As an IACET Accredited Provider, Professional Education offers IACET CEUs for learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
Requirements to be eligible to earn CEUs:
Upon successfully meeting all requirements outlined above, you will be notified via email that you have A) earned the certificate of completion for the program and B) are now eligible to earn CEUs. This email will contain the link to complete the required reflection assignment if you wish to receive CEUs, along with a submission deadline and time frame for receiving your CEUs. After submitting your reflection assignment, we will notify you via email of your CEU status, and if you have met all requirements, you will be able to download and view your CEU certificate at this point in time.
Note: Professional Education is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes the quality of continuing education and training.
Each CEEL module is $245. Please contact us to receive your discount codes. Please note that the discounts cannot be combined. Tuition assistance is not available for this program.
*Groups for the Series must register for all five modules at once before Learn A’s registration deadline and pay for the entire amount before Learn A starts.