CHILD DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE VRE002

Child Development Home Study Certificate

Learn How Children Develop

A unique qualification for anyone working with, or wanting to work with children.

An interesting course for parents or carers to understand how children grow and develop.

Offering a wide focus of courses relating to child develop.

This course provides valuable skills and understanding that will support development of a career or development of business enterprises that relate to child development. The course is practical and fosters the development of networks within relevant industry sectors, as well as broader life skills that are often as important as industry specific skills when seeking to develop a career.

• Course Duration: 600 hours (self paced)
• Assessment:  58 assignments and 6 exams
• Recognition: Internationally accredited certificate by IARC

MODULE DESCRIPTIONS

Play Leadership

There are ten lessons in this course, plus one special project, as follows:

1. Understanding Play
   To explain the purpose of play in the cognitive, physical and social development of a child.
2. Leadership Skills
   To determine the skills required to carry out a play leadership role in different situations.
3. Planning Play Programs
   To develop a plan for a supervised children's play program.
4. Child Development through Play
   To develop a basic understanding of the impact of play upon the psychological development of a child.
5. Play Safety
   To determine appropriate measures to take to protect a child's safety when at play, while minimising any interference which might diminish the quality of the play experience.
6. Physical Play
   To develop an understanding of options for physical play activities, including games and sports, in a supervised play program.
7. Social Play
   To develop an understanding of options for social play activities, in a supervised play program.
8. Adventure Play
   To develop a basic ability to plan, establish and manage a supervised adventure playground.
9. Play Apparatus
   To develop an ability to evaluate a range of different play apparatus, including playground structures, toys, sports equipment, commenting on quality, safety features, appropriate applications and cost benefit.
10. Activities
    To broaden your scope of opportunities that can be offered for children to play, appropriate to a wide range of different situations.
11. Special Project

Introduction to Psychology BPS101

There are seven lessons in this course, as follows:

1. The Nature & Scope of Psychology
2. Neurological Basis of Behaviour
3. Environmental Effects on Behaviour
4. Consciousness And Perception
5. Personality
6. Psychological Development
7. Needs, Drives And Motivation

Aims

• Explain the nature and scope of psychology.
• Explain characteristics of the neurological basis of behaviour.
• Explain environmental effects on behaviour.
• Explain the differences between consciousness and perception.
• Explain the effect of personality on behaviour.
• Explain psychological development.
• Apply different techniques to motivate people.

Child Psychology BPS104

There are 12 lessons as follows:

1. Introduction to Child Psychology
   • Levels of development
   • Nature or nurture
   • Isolating hereditary characteristics
   • Cause versus correlation
   • Continuity versus discontinuity
   • Cross sectional and longitudinal studies
   • Reliability of verbal reports
2. The Newborn Infant
   • The Interactionist Approach
   • Range of Reaction
   • Niche Picking
   • Temperament
   • Stimulus seeking
   • Emotional disturbances during pregnancy
3. States & Senses of the Infant
   • Sensory Discrimination
   • Infant States (sleep, Inactivity, Waking, Crying etc)
   • Why are Psychologists so concerned with defining and describing these infant states?
   • Habituation
   • Crying, Soothing a Distressed Baby
   • Sound Discrimination
   • Smell and Taste Discrimination
   • Visual Discrimination
   • Depth Perception
   • Oral Sensitivity
4. Learning
   • Habituation
   • Vicarious Learning
   • Classical Conditioning
   • Operant Conditioning
   • Reinforcement
   • The Importance of Learning Control, etc
5. Emotions and Socialisation
   • Producing and Recognising Emotional Expression
   • Smiling
   • Biological Explanation
   • Perceptual Recognition Explanation
   • The Mother-Child Attachment
   • Freudian Approach
   • Bowlby's Approach
   • Social Learning Approach
   • Harlow's Approach
   • The Role of Cognition in Attachment Formation
   • Maternal Attachment
   • Fear
   • Social Learning
   • Perceptual Recognition
   • Woman's Duel Role as Mothers and Workers
   • Is Day Care a Developmental Hazard to Children
6. Cognitive Development
   • Developing the ability to reason.
7. Language Development
   • Is language learned, or are we genetically programmed with it
   • The Social Learning Approach
   • The Hypothesis testing Approach
   • Under extending
8. Intelligence
   • Measuring Intelligence
   • Cultural Bias
   • IQ
   • Testing Intelligence as a tool.
9. Socialisation - Part A
   • Social Cognation
     • Self awareness
     • Awareness of others as individuals in their own Right
     • The development of empathy
     • Taking turns
     • Having a point of view/perspective
     • Ability to see something from another person's perspective.
   • Friendships
   • Social Scripts
   • Scripts that Pretend Play
10. Morality
    • Moral development
    • Aggression & Altruism
    • Freud's Approach
    • Piaget's Approach
    • Kohlberg's Approach
11. Sexuality
    • Freud's phases (oral phase, anal phase, phallic phase, latent phase, genital phase)
    • The Acquisition of Gender & Role Identity
    • Concept of psycho-social development
12. Socialisation - Part B
    • The Family Influence
    • Discipline
    • Siblings
    • Family Structures
    • School Influence
    • Peer Influence
    • Acceptance & Rejection
    • Imitation & Reinforcement.

Children’s Writing BWR104

There are ten lessons as follows:

1. Introduction: Understanding Children, their thoughts, needs, development.
2. Overview of Children's Writing: Categories (fiction & non fiction), understanding the market place; analyse & understand what is needed for the different categories, etc.
3. Conceptualisation: Conceiving a concept…where & how to find inspiration/influence. Developing a concept … how to plan.
4. Children's Writing for Periodicals: Children's pages in magazines, newspapers, etc.
5. Short Stories
6. Non-Fiction: Texts (writing to satisfy curriculum. Other (eg. nature, history, biography, hobbies).
7. Fiction: settings, characterisation, fantasy, science fiction, adventure.
8. Picture Books and Story Books
9. Editing your work: Grammar, spelling & punctuation. Improving clarity. Cleaning out clutter; expansions.
10. Project - write a short story, picture book or kid,s page for a (hypothetical) periodical.

Children's Nutrition BRE304

There are 10 lessons in this module as follows:

1. Introduction to Child Nutrition

2. Nutrition for Pre-Pregnancy

3. Nutrition in Pregnancy

4. Nutrition in Infants

5. Nutrition in Childhood

6. Nutritional Concerns

7. Healthy Eating Behaviours

8. Issues in Child Nutrition

9. Childhood Obesity

10. Diet Plans

AIMS

• Discuss the nature and scope of developing nutrition for children according to their backgrounds and needs.
• Explain the various nutritional needs of the mother and father before pregnancy .
• Explain the various nutritional needs of the mother and child during pregnancy.
• Explain various nutritional needs of infants from birth to age two.
• Explain various nutritional aspects of growing children addressing various issues and concerns.
• Identify concerns in the diets of children and adolescents and overcoming them.
• Lists ways to encourage healthy eating behaviour in children.
• Explain some of the common issues such as food sensitivities in childhood nutrition.
• Explain causes and guidelines to overcoming childhood obesity.
• Develop a list diet outlines for healthy children and special diet plans for children with special nutritional needs.

SOME OF WHAT YOU MAY DO IN THIS COURSE

• Interview parents regarding the diets (what the children eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as snacks) of their children, they can be family or friends. Make a day’s menu for each one of them according to the information they give you
• Interview pregnant women (family or friends) and question about their daily diet. Note what they have said and write how you would improve their diets.
• Research for information to make a tasty and healthy weaning mix for a six month old baby. Make your own weaning mix with the information you have gathered.
• Prepare a diet plan for an 11 year old for three days.
• Compare the nutrition panel for different staple foods bought from the supermarkets (for example breakfast cereals, stir fry sauces or pasta sauces, fruit bars). Compare the added sugars to natural sugars
• Do a survey and find out What Australian children and adolescents are actually eating. Write a 200 word report on your survey. (You can conduct your survey by talking to children, adolescents and their parents, by reading articles in magazines and newspapers or by searching the internet).

Playground Design

There are 8 lessons as follows:

1. Overview of Parks & Playgrounds
2. Playground Philosophy
3. Preparing a Concept Plan
4. Materials
5. Park & Playground Structures and Materials
6. Local and Neighbourhood Parks
7. Community Participation In Park Development
8. Special Assignment

Aims

• Determine the procedure to plan a park development, including a playground and other facilities.
• Prepare a concept plan for a park or playground.
• Assess the design of park components, including materials and equipment used in parks and playgrounds.
• Determine appropriate design characteristics for a local or neighbourhood parks.
• Determine legal implications involved in the design of a playground.
• Design facilities to cater for movement throughout a park or playground.
• Manage appropriate community participation in development of a park or playground.
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Child Development Certificate Distance Learning

 Study child development in your own time and at your own pace.

Learn about how children develop from birth to adulthood.

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