Program Map

Infant/Toddler Specialist - Certificate of Achievement

Program Map

Infant/Toddler Specialist - Certificate of Achievement

Certificate of Achievement
Spring 2020
  • Social Sciences, Humanities & Education

This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

I'm ready to get started. What do I do next?

  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
  2. Meet with a counselor to develop your customized student education plan www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling
  3. Use DegreeWorks, an online student education planning tool, to track your progress toward graduation www.chabotcollege.edu/admissions/degreeworks

Students earning this certificate will learn about typical and atypical development in children from birth through early childhood, with an emphasis on growth and development from 0-3 years of age. You will learn developmental theory, and get opportunities to apply that theory with hands-on experiences planning activities and curriculum in infant and toddler care and education sites. Students who earn this certificate will fulfill Community Care Licensing requirements to be a preschool teacher of young children and will also meet the coursework requirements for the Associate Teacher California Child Development Permit.

This certificate prepares you to be an aide, assistant teacher and head teacher in programs that serve infants and toddlers. This certificate will enable you to become a qualified preschool and infant/toddler teacher according to state licensing regulations as well as meet the Early Childhood Education course requirements of the California Child Development Permit.

Critical Course Prerequisite for Other Courses Prerequisite Required Required for Major GE General Education

Semester 1
 
9 units
ECD 50
Early Childhood Principles and Practices (Active)
3.0
ECD 56
Child Growth and Development (Active)
3.0
ECD 62
Child, Family and Community (Active)
3.0
Semester 2
 
7 units
ECD 63
Early Childhood Curriculum (Active)
4.0
Options Course (Choose one course from the list below)
 
3.0
Choose one course from the list of Options below
Semester 3
 
7 units
ECD 90
Practicum: Supervised Experience (Active)
4.0
ECD 67
Infant and Toddler Development and Caregiving (Active)
3.0
Semester 4
 
3 units
ECD 87
Infant and Toddler Environments, Care and Education (Active)
3.0
Options Courses
 

Choose one course from the list below 

12 units
ECD 69
Child Study: Observation and Assessment (Active)
3.0
ECD 54
Child Health, Safety and Nutrition (Active)
3.0
ECD 79
Teaching in a Diverse Society (Active)
3.0
ECD 60
Introduction to the Young Child With Exceptional Needs (Active)
3.0
Total Units: 26.0