Child Development (CDEC)

This is an exploration of guidance strategies for promoting prosocial behaviors with individual and groups of children. Emphasis on positive guidance principles and techniques, family involvement, and cultural influences.

This course is a study of appropriate infant and toddler programs (birth to age 3), including an overview of development, quality routines, appropriate environments, materials and activities, and teaching/guidance techniques.

This course is a study of observation skills, assessment techniques, and documentation of children’s development.

This course explores the principles, methods, and materials for teaching young children language and literacy through a play-based, integrated curriculum.

This course is a survey of information regarding children with special needs including possible causes and characteristics of exceptionalities, intervention strategies, available resources, referral processes, the advocacy role and legislative issues.

This course is a study of the fundamentals of developmentally appropriate curriculum design and implementation in early care and education programs for children birth through age eight.

This course is based on the requirements for the Child Development Associate credential(CDA). Topics include CDA overview, observation skills, and child growth and development overview. The four functional areas of study are creative, cognitive, physical, and communication.

This course is an exploration of principles, methods, and materials for teaching music, movement, visual arts, and dramatic play through process-oriented experiences to support divergent thinking for children birth through age eight.

The Educational Aide Associate course is designed to offer participants the knowledge and resources needed to meet the requirements of the Paraeducator. This course contains 48-hours of observation and field experience in early childhood programs and ISD settings. Included in this course are the essential skills for working as a Paraeducator. Participants will gain the knowledge, skills and strategies through observation and assessment needed to develop and implement educational activities when working with students. Course content covered is relevant to the three subjects of study are Learning Environment, Curriculum content, and Instructional guidance in addition to Review and Practice Test questions. Each curricula area includes objectives, lessons, developmentally appropriate activities, and assessments that are related to all three subjects of study reading, writing, and math.

This course includes the application of management procedures for early child care and education programs. Includes planning, operating, supervising, and evaluating programs. Topics cover philosophy, types of programs, policies, fiscal management, regulations, staffing, evaluation, and communication.

This course includes an in-depth study of the skills and techniques in managing early care and education programs, including legal, ethical issues, personnel management, team building, leadership, conflict resolution, stress management advocacy, professionalism, fiscal analysis, planning parent education/partnerships, and technical applications in programs.

This is a study of programs for the school age child, including an overview of development, learning environments, materials, activities, and guidance techniques.

This course includes practical, general workplace training supported by an individualized learning plan developed by the employer, College, and student. The plan relates the workplace training and experiences to the student’s general and technical course of study. The guided external experiences may be for pay or no pay. This course may be repeated if topics and learning outcomes vary. Prerequisite or

This course is an exploration of principles, methods, and materials for teaching children math and science concepts and process skills through discovery and play.

This course is a continuation of the study of the requirements for the Child Development Associate (CDA). The six functional areas of study include safe, healthy, learning environment, self, social, and guidance.

This course is a continuation of the requirements for the Child Development Associate (CDA). The three functional areas of study include family, program management and professionalism.