Program Map

Educational Aide - Certificate of Achievement

Program Map

Educational Aide - Certificate of Achievement

Certificate of Achievement
Fall 2021
  • 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
This certificate provides students who want to work as a school aide, paraprofessional educator, after school aide or teacher assistant with essential knowledge of child development, how to work with diverse populations and children with special needs, hands-on curriculum development, and field work in an elementary school setting. In addition, you have an option to focus on behavior guidance, literacy development or health and safety.

You will be qualified to work in a licensed facility as a preschool teacher and will have the coursework to earn the Associate Teacher permit which is needed to work in Title 5 state-funded preschools and Head Start centers. You will have competencies to work as paraeducators, after-school aides and teacher assistants in an elementary school as well.

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

Semester 1
 
12 units
ECD 50
Early Childhood Principles and Practices (Active)
3.0
ECD 62
Child, Family and Community (Active)
3.0
ECD 79
Teaching in a Diverse Society (Active)
3.0
ECD 52 or ECD 56 (Choose one)
 
3.0
ECD 56
Child Growth and Development (Active)
3.0
OR
ECD 52
Childhood and Adolescence (Historical)
3.0
Semester 2
 
13 units
ECD 11
Exploring Education (Active)
3.0
ECD 63
Early Childhood Curriculum (Active)
4.0
ECD 60
Introduction to the Young Child With Exceptional Needs (Active)
3.0
Options Course (Choose one course from the list below)
 
3.0
Choose one course from the Options list below
Options Courses
 

Choose one:

12 units
ECD 41
Strategies for Working with Challenging Behaviors (Active)
3.0
ECD 59
Literacy in Early Childhood (Active)
3.0
ECD 54
Child Health, Safety and Nutrition (Active)
3.0
ENGL 28
Classic and Contemporary Youth Literature (Active)
3.0
Total Units: 25.0