Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship

Short Description:

This is an advanced, comprehensive, child development-based program that shows students how to become competent in childcare rules and regulations, learning environments, principles of child development, trends and issues in early childhood education and classroom management techniques. Students must be employed in the Childcare Industry. Upon completion, students will earn their DCF Staff Credential

Program Description:

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 technology; labor, community, health, safety, and environmental issues; and developmentally appropriate practices for children birth through age eight. 

This program is approved by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) as meeting the course requirement for child care personnel/pre-school teachers, 65C-221(6).  Students who complete this course can be awarded the Department of Labor Apprenticeship Certificate and will be eligible for the DCF Staff Credential.