Early Care Practicum

Catalog description

PREREQUISITES: Program Chair Approval, must be taken at the home campus CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Provides opportunity for practical experience through observation and supervised participation in childcare settings. This practicum offers experiences with ages infant through school age and requires 144 hours of field experience in an approved early care setting. Students are required to complete observations and field experiences with children as related to this course. Students must seek placement for practicum directly with the Program Chair during the semester before the practicum begins. This course must be taken at the home campus. Students are required to meet personnel requirements for child care licensing which may include, but are not limited to: FBI fingerprints, 5 panel drug screen, TB test, physical/vaccination history, criminal history checks, CPS registry checks, reference checks, and completion of state licensing mandatory training modules- Health and Safety Modules 1-4, Intro to the Indiana Early Learning Standards, and Child Abuse Prevention and Detection or others that may apply or be requried by state law or by the early learning program.