Child Care Best Practices

Catalog description

This is the fifth of six courses designed to prepare participants to receive a credential as a child care administrator. Like the other five courses, it is developed to meet the needs of those who are employed or would like to be employed as administrators in child care programs, Head Start, nursery schools, school- age programs, family child care, child welfare service agencies, public and private schools, and other early care and education programs. This course covers child care as a family-friendly community, integration of child growth and development principles into all aspects of the program, establishing and maintaining quality in the program, developing partnerships with families, multicultural and anti-bias approaches in curriculum, materials, activities, relationships, and space design and equipment.