Enrollment Duration: 90 Days

This course will introduce you to tiered instruction, also known as Response to Intervention (RTI) and Positive Behavioral Support (PBS). We will examine how a tiered approach can be used to enhance learning and development in young children and specific practices related to both social-emotional development and academic learning or cognitive development that can be used either independently or together by:

• Describing effective tiered instruction related to social-emotional development and academic learning for use with young children in early care and education programs.
• Using a decision-making process to help integrate various sources of evidence and determine whether tiered instruction could be used to promote positive behaviors and academic learning in young children in early care and education programs.

Enrollment Duration: 90 Days

In this course, you will learn about the practice of embedded interventions to help children participate in a variety of early learning opportunities and environments promoting high-quality inclusion by:

• Explaining what is meant by embedded interventions to promote participation in inclusive settings.
• Using a decision-making process to help a child participate more fully in an inclusive setting through embedded interventions.

Enrollment Duration: 90 Days

In this course, you will learn about effective communication practices that can be used to promote collaboration with professionals and families in early care and education, and intervention settings by:

• Describing effective practices for communicating with professionals and families in the context of early education and intervention.
• Using a decision-making process to select communication practices linked to specific purposes including attending and active listening, seeking and verifying, and supporting and joining.