CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

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Business Education/ accounting Operations

Early Childhood Certificate

Location: The English Center

Monday-Saturday

Family and Consumer Sciences Education include programs, services and activities designed to prepare youth and adults for occupations in Family and Consumer Sciences and the occupation of homemaking.
These programs provide nutrition; consumer education; family living; child development and parenting; housing; home management, including resource management; and clothing and textiles. Training for employment opportunities in all areas found at all levels from entry through technical, material and professional, as well as employment as a full-time homemaker.

The overall purpose is to provide programs for all individuals who are employed in the occupation of homemaking, for individuals who need job skills for initial employment, for individuals who need to upgrade or be retrained in job skills and for individual training in life skills through Family and Consumer Sciences Education.

Module

Day

Time

Hours: 600

Lab with children

MTWR
F
F

08:15 am-10:45 am
08:15 am-10:45 am
11:00 am-01:30 pm

Theory

MTWR

11:00 am-01:30 pm

Hours: 120

Early Childhood Education (Theory)

MW
S

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12:30 pm-04:30 pm

Hours: DCF 20

Intro to Childcare

MW
S

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Hours: DCF 40

DCF (40)

MTWR
MTWR
S

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08:00 am-12:15 pm

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Early Childhood
Hours: 600

The Early Childhood Education Program focuses on broad, transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstrations of the following elements of the Early Childhood industry: planning, management, finance, technical and production skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues and heath, safety, and environmental issues and developmentally appropriate practices for children, birth through age eight.

The program consists of 600 hours with four occupational completion points.

Instruction and learning activities are provided in a laboratory setting using hands-on experiences with the equipment and materials appropriate to the program content and in accordance with high quality standards in the field. Activities provide instruction in the use of manipulative equipment; language development; creative art, music, science, dramatic play; developmentally appropriate practices, brain research, classroom management and Child Development Associate (CDA) competencies. Observation and supervised work experiences with young children in a school laboratory or a community laboratory setting are an integral part of the program. (To meet CDA equivalency status, a student must also obtain 480 hours of direct work with children five years or younger in a laboratory or childcare setting).

Early Childhood
Hours: 120
Participants receive a specialized Professional Preparation Program Course that prepares preschool teachers and care givers with the knowledge and skills they will need to help children master skills, develop friendships, grow in independence, and move to new levels of thinking and understanding about themselves and the world. Participants completing this program will receive a Child Development Associate (CDA) Equivalent Certification. The program requires 120 clock hours for completion.

Child Development Associate (CDA) Equivalent prerequisites.

Participant must be 18 years old
Participant must have a H.S. Diploma or GED
Participant must have documented 480 hours of experience working with children within the past 5 years (Documentation must be on letterhead and notarized)
Participant must be able to speak, read, and write well enough to fulfill the responsibilities of a CDA Participant.

Early Childhood
Hours: 40 DCF

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