Early Childhood Education

This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Education & Training career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Education & Training career cluster. The content includes but is not limited to competencies related to the following elements of the early childhood education industry: planning, management, finance, technical, and production skills; underlying principles of the technology; labor, community, health, safety, and environmental issues; and developmentally appropriate practices for children birth through age eight.