Why Online Training?

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The University of Alabama Child Development Research Center sees almost 800 students come through its doors every year. We find it extremely important for students to understand appropriate behaviors while being around young children. Over the years we have provided orientations for all different types of students in Human Development and Family Studies as well as education and psychology. Providing these orientations can be time consuming and not all students choose to show up. Also, escorting these students in the hallway during school hours can be overwhelming for the children and teachers as well as disruptive to classroom activities. So, I have decided to try to come up with an on-line version of our orientation for our students. These students can include observation students, practicum students, student interns, substitute teachers, graduate students, and work study students. For the students that will be more hands on with the children (interns, practicums, substitutes, graduate students) I think an interactive online training can be very beneficial. Through these trainings we can provide the students with modeled behavior, examples of classroom activities, curriculum, school policies and procedures and daily schedules. These trainings can be provided through video tutorials, power points and short Q and A sections.

Student can also be provided with helpful websites such as NAEYC to become more acquainted with our accreditation criteria.