Online Courses
CEED offers a variety of online courses for continuing education (clock hours). The course sessions are guided by instructors. Follow the links below for more details about each course, including registration information.
Continuing education certificates awarded for successful completion of a course are approved and issued by the College of Education and Human Development. Our online courses are also approved by the Minnesota Center for Professional Development to count toward career lattice steps and approved by the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA) for their members (ICEA accepts a maximum of 24 clock hours per course).
Bridging Education and Mental Health
Finds common ground between behavioral and therapeutic approaches in supporting children who engage in challenging behavior
Critical
Learning Through Movement
Infants and Toddlers Exploring Their World
New course. Studies the influence of physical activity on learning/cognitive and social-emotional development in infancy and toddlerhood
Introduction to Infant Mental Health
For professionals interested in an introduction to infant mental health and intervention with infants, toddlers, and their parents
Parent Infant Pathways (PIP)
An educator's guide to providing information and support to new parents
Designed to enhance the work of professionals by providing specific training around early infant development, parent education, and parent-infant relationships
Premature Babies and Their Parents
Information and insights for early intervention personnel
Provides professionals with information about the experiences of parents who have given birth prematurely, the effect of premature birth on the infant’s behavior and development, information about developmental care, and other research-based strategies proven to enhance the child’s development and offer both parent education curricula as well as implementation strategies
Prenatal Development and Its Influence on Children's
Development
A foundational course on the parent-infant relationship
Developed for family educators, social workers, health care providers and others to facilitate positive parent-baby interactions beginning in the prenatal period
Supporting Stressed Young Children Through
Relationship-based Teaching
Focuses on how relationships with caring adults are the context of all growth and learning for young children; explores how to use the tools of "reflective teaching" and "reflective collaboration" to better understand young children and what intervention approaches might work for children who are having difficulties
Seeing is Believing®
Filming families and using guided self-observation to build on parenting strengths
A unique practice that helps parents increase their sensitivity and responsiveness to their babies' cues by using a videotaping strategy
Working
with Parents
Considerations for Special Populations
New course. Examines the transactional role of parents and parent-child relationships on child development as well as interdisciplinary childhood mental health principles and strategies for working with parents of young children
Addressing the Needs of Young Children Who Engage in
Challenging Behaviors
This course is no longer offered through CEED. Please visit the Early Childhood Behavior Project web site.
