Child Dev Associate CDA Wkshp

This course helps students expand their knowledge of the Child Development Associate Credentialing process and provides comprehensive instruction in early childhood education/child development. Students will develop skills in planning curriculum for preschoolers and complete their professional resource file. The course offers 60 contact hours of formal training. Combined with ECE 100, CDA Workshop I, students will satisfy the 120 contact hours of formal training, as required by the CDA National Credentialing System. Students are expected to be employed, or to volunteer, either full- or-part-time, in a child care center, preschool or pre-kindergarten program. This course is required for the Child Care Certificate and can be applied to the A.A.S. degree in Early Childhood Education as a substitute for ECE 211, Early Childhood Curriculum.