Child Development Courses in Chicago, IL

Train to become a paraprofessional educator. This course will prepare you for the ETS ParaPro Assessment, a Praxis exam needed to work as a teacher's aide.

Learn the principles of child growth and development from birth through age five and how they align with the eight Child Development Associate® (CDA) competencies and National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) professional standards.

Whether you're a new teacher or seasoned veteran, these fundamental courses will help you gain control of your classroom and more effectively teach all learner types.

This rewarding course will teach you about six efficient classroom processes that you can implement as part of your classroom management plan to help you create a more predictable and positive learning environment.

Help your students think like scientists by teaching them the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) writing process. This course will provide you with a step-by-step plan for designing a CER writing lesson specific to your science classes.

This course will teach you how to support your English Language Learners throughout the pre-writing, drafting, and post-writing process.

This rewarding course will teach you how to support your students' reading and writing fluency through specific grouping strategies and station activities, focused on key areas of effective literacy instruction.

This course will teach you six common collaborative learning models that you can implement immediately into your classroom to increase student engagement and discourse.