Child Care and Supervision

Are you interested in teaching in a child-care facility?

Do you want to work as a teacher’s aide or as an instructional aide?

Do you want a career as a child-care administrator

The Child Care and Supervision Program may be what you are seeking. This two-year program will teach you about these interesting topics:

The physical, emotional, social, and intellectual developmental needs of young children
Developmentally appropriate materials for specific age groups in child care
The needs of exceptional infants, toddlers, and young children and how to meet those needs
Working with teachers in educational programs for young children.

This program includes training in child care lesson planning, implementation and evaluation, classroom management, and administration; moreover, students in this program gain participate in more than 100 hours of practicum experience. This program leads to an associate in science degree (a two-year degree).

All candidates for this degree must meet admission requirements for teacher education.

Mission

To prepare students who will demonstrate competence, character, and compassion in service and leadership working with young children in child care facilities as instructional aides, teachers in child care centers, and child care administrators.

Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate basic writing, grammar, reading, computational, and technological skills.
Demonstrate mastery of content knowledge in the development and needs of young children.
Demonstrate the skills of an effective child care provider and/or teacher.
Demonstrate the professional dispositions of a teacher of young children.

Coursework

General Education Core 36

Foundations Tier				15
COM	1010		Speech Communications			(3)
EDU	2565		Math for Elementary Educators			(3)
ENG	1020		English Composition			(3)
ENG	1080		Critical Reading Writing Thinking			(3)
MAT	1040	Concepts of Mathematics			(3)
		or
MAT	1055	College Algebra

Human Sciences Tier			6
PSY	2010	General Psychology	(3)
SOC	2500	The Family in Society	(3)
Natural Sciences Tier				6
ALH	2100	Public School Health			(3)
SCI	1500	Life Science			(3)
Contexts Tier				9
MUS	1500	Fine Arts			(3)
REL	2000	Introduction to Biblical Faith			(3)
REL	3000	Christian Tradition			(3)

Child Care Core			33
EDU	1010	Foundations Practicum in Education		(1)
EDU	1500	Foundations of Education P30		(3)
EDU	2600	Learning and Cognition		(3)
EDU	3523	Ethical and Legal Rights of Teachers and Students		(2)
ECS	2000	Caring for Infants and Toddlers* P20		(3)
ECS	2100	Early Childhood Program of Play and Creative Expression* P20		(3)
ECS	2200	Early Childhood Reading and Writing* P20		(3)
ECS	2300	Early Childhood Math and Science Methods* P20		(3)
ECS	2400	Early Childhood Language Arts and Social Studies* P20		(3)
ECS	2900	Child Care Administration and Community Relations* P40		(3)
INT	1100	Life Calling and Purpose		(3)
PSY	3411	Introduction to the Exceptional Learner		(3)

* Admission to Teacher Education Required

P Includes a practicum

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