Growing Good Hearts: A Journey in Morals for Young Children

If you are employed in a state that uses a registry to track professional development hours, you will be able to provide your registry ID (Stars, MOPID, Registry or other ECE ID#) after you have completed the quiz for the course. If you pass the quiz we will report your course completion to the state registry using the registry ID that you provide.

This course provides a guide to understanding and implementing strategies for teaching moral values to young children. Participants will explore key moral concepts, learn age-appropriate methods for fostering empathy, kindness, honesty, respect, and responsibility, and discover how to integrate character development into daily routines, play, and learning experiences. Course length – 3.0 hours.

The course will help answer the following questions:

• What are morals?

• What is the difference between morals and rules?

• Which morals can I teach children this young?

• How do I teach them these morals?

• What activities can we do to bring these lessons home?

Participants who successfully complete this course will be able to:

• Define key moral concepts relevant to early childhood development.

• Explain the importance of early moral education for children’s holistic development and societal well-being.

• Identify age-appropriate strategies for teaching empathy, kindness, honesty, respect, and responsibility.

• Design and implement activities that promote moral reasoning and character development.

• Utilize various resources (books, games, role-playing) to reinforce moral lessons.

• Create a classroom or home environment that consistently models and encourages positive moral behavior.