The Early Childhood Personnel Center

Course enhancement offerings include e-learning lessons, practice guides, resources, and CONNECT Modules. These materials were developed for Higher Education faculty and professional development staff for use when training early interventionists, early childhood special education educators, and related service providers to use evidence-based practices. The materials provide authentic learning activities and opportunities for self-evaluation and student-guided mastery experiences.

Each learning series has an introduction, practice illustration, and implementation activities along with additional resources.

• Naturalistic Instruction
• Everyday Child Learning Activities
• Interest-Based Child Learning
• Early Child Contingency Learning Games
• Authentic Child Assessment

• Naturalistic Instruction
• Everyday Child Learning Activities
• Interest-Based Child Learning
• Early Child Contingency Learning
• Authentic Child Assessment

CONNECT Modules and Courses are self-paced guided course enhancement modules designed for faculty or professional development providers to support the early intervention and the early childhood special education workforce. These modules and courses represent a collaboration between the Early Childhood Personnel Center (ECPC), Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The CONNECT Modules and courses are available on the DEC website.