Chabot College 2024-2026 211 CREDIT COURSE LISTING, ECD Sophomore Year ECD 60 Introduction to the Young Child With Exceptional Needs 3 ECD 90 Practicum: Supervised Experience 4 ECD 67 Infant and Toddler Development and Caregiving 3 ECD 91 Adaptive Curriculum for Children With Exceptional Needs 3 Total 29 EDUCATIONAL AIDE Certificate of Achievement This certificate provides students who want to work as a school aide, paraprofessional educator, after school aide or teacher assistant with essential knowledge of child development, how to work with diverse populations and children with special needs, hands-on curriculum development, and field work in an elementary school setting. In addition, they have an option to focus on behavior guidance, literacy development or health and safety. A recipient will qualify under state licensing regulations to be a preschool teacher and will have the course work to earn the Associate Teacher California Child Development permit. A grade of “C” or higher is required in all courses. Career Opportunities Students will be qualified to work in a licensed facility as a preschool teacher and will have the coursework to earn the Associate Teacher permit which is needed to work in Title 5 state funded preschools and Head Start centers. They will have competencies to work as paraeducators, after-school aides and teacher assistants in an elementary school as well. Labor Market data shows a significant undersupply of Teacher Assistants compared to the demand for this occupation in the Bay region and in the East Bay sub-region (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.) There is a projected annual gap of about 4,034 students in the Bay region and 1,485 students in the East Bay Sub-Region. In addition, as California school districts struggle to find teachers, these jobs might prove to be a pipeline to a credentialed jobs. Some California school districts have initiated programs to provide financial aid to aides and paraprofessionals to earn degrees and credentials. Program Learning Outcomes 1. demonstrate an understanding of typical and atypical development in children birth through elementary school age by planning curriculum that meets the diverse needs and learning styles of all children; 2. demonstrate an understanding of child development theory, pedagogy, and current research, and their application to responsive and reflective practice in early care and elementary school settings. Core Courses ECD 11 Exploring Education 3 ECD 50 Early Childhood Principles and Practices 3 ECD 52 Childhood and Adolescence 3 or ECD 56 Child Growth and Development 3 ECD 60 Introduction to the Young Child With Exceptional Needs 3 ECD 62 Child, Family and Community 3 ECD 63 Early Childhood Curriculum 4 ECD 79 Teaching in a Diverse Society 3 Elective -- one course selected from the following ECD 41 Strategies for Working with Challenging Behaviors 3 ECD 59 Literacy in Early Childhood 3 ECD 54 Child Health, Safety and Nutrition 3 ENGL 28 Classic and Contemporary Youth Literature 3 Total 25 FAMILY CHILD CARE ENTREPRENEURSHIP Certificate of Achievement This certificate provides students interested in opening a home-based child care business with the essential early childhood education AND essential administrative and entrepreneurship skills they will need to successfully start and operate a business. This certificate will enable a family childcare operator to be a fully qualified teacher according to state standards, to understand the operations/administration of a child care facility, to learn basic entrepreneurship skills, and will provide students with an additional certificate credential to use in marketing. Career Opportunities Career opportunities are plenty. In CA predicted number of Child Care workers are estimated around 108,500. In the state of California there are 1,757, 879 children younger than 6 years of age needing child care, as parents work) There are a total of 1,072,943 child care spaces and there are 1,757,879 children younger than 6 needing child care which represents a need for 684,936 spaces for child care in the state of California. Currently 64.6% of children are cared for in child care centers and 35.4% are cared for in family child care homes. (Supply and demand data are provided by the State CCR&R Network and are derived from CCR&R data, or by the state child care licensing office). Family Child Care homes are licensed to care for 6-15 children depending on the size of their homes and licensing requirements. Looking at these statistics in the state of California there is a need for 15, 981 family child care homes in order to meet the needs of spaces for child care. (15 spaces per family child care home and that 35.4% of children are cared for in family child care homes).
