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TEACHER’S AIDE
Teacher’s Aides are essential to the effective management and flow of classrooms for early childhood education. Teacher’s Aides help to ensure primary teachers, administrators and instructors at this level are able to run an effective and efficient classroom whether as part of an education-focused day care, a nursery school or other education environment for young children.
CERTIFICATION: ETS ParaPro
PROGRAM COSTS: Varies
COURSE CONTACT HOURS: 375
PROGRAM DURATION: 6 Months
EXTERNSHIP AVAILABLE: Yes
Tyler Junior College TJC-E-TCHR
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Texas A&M TAMIU-E-TCHR
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The Teacher’s Aide Profession
Teacher’s Aides are essential to the effective management and flow of classrooms for early childhood education. Teacher’s Aides help to ensure primary teachers, administrators and instructors at this level are able to run an effective and efficient classroom whether as part of an education-focused day care, a nursery school or other education environment for young children Teacher’s Aides support the primary teacher in both instructional and clerical tasks, help with overall class supervision and can assist in a variety of special and day-to-day projects. Professionals committed to early childhood education understand how to communicate with children at this age and also how to design and implement curriculum in all subject areas that is both age and developmentally appropriate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs in this area are projected to grow 14% to 2030.
The Teacher’s Aide Program
This program introduces the historical, theoretical and developmental foundations for educating young children and designing and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum in order to provide the primary teacher with the most help possible. This particular program focuses on development of children from birth through age 8, the roles, responsibilities and requirements of individuals working in early childhood classrooms as well as curriculum development so that Teacher’s Aides can assist the teachers most effectively while also helping to cultivate a creative, caring and nurturing environment for young children. This program will introduce early childhood education with a focus on developmental expectations and challenges of young children, supervising and caring for young children, as well as strategies and tools for educating young children by developing thoughtful, engaging and exciting lesson plans that will lay the foundation for their education for years to come.
Education and Certification Opportunities
- Students should have or be pursuing a high school diploma or GED.
National Certification exam that is available to students who successfully complete this program:
ETS ParaPro Assessment Certification Exam
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Analyze the roles, responsibilities, and requirements for those who work in early childhood education (ECE) settings and the evolution of the field of ECE
- Analyze current issues in ECE that have implications for children, families, and society
- Describe the age-related developmental accomplishments of young children from birth through age 8 in each of the developmental domains
- Analyze programs that support individual differences, culturally responsive, and inclusive
- Analyze ECE standards as related to preparing developmentally appropriate activities
- Analyze practices that ensure the health, safety, and well-being of all children
Compare strategies to develop emotional self-regulation and avoid challenging behaviors - Describe strategies that foster childcare worker and family partnerships
- Describe the role of assessment/documentation to inform curriculum development
- Evaluate the attributes of professionalism in ECE including advocacy, and social justice
- Analyze how a learning experience reflects a developmentally appropriate practice
- Explain how curriculum is affected by theories, models, government programs, and standards
- Create a plan to establish reciprocal relationships with families
- Plan developmentally appropriate learning environments and experiences for young children
- Compare different teaching techniques in relationship to children’s development and learning
- Compare various forms of assessment for planning, documenting, communicating, and reflecting
- Design a developmentally appropriate math, science, technology, literacy, social studies, physical education, creative arts, or other integrated learning experiences
Technical Requirements
- Windows 7, XP or Vista
- 56K modem or higher
- Soundcard & Speakers
- Firefox, Chrome or Microsoft Internet Explorer
MAC OS USERS
- Mac OS X or higher (in classic mode)
- 56K modem or higher
- Soundcard & Speakers
- Apple Safari
System will support the two latest releases of each browser. When using older versions of a browser, users risk running into problems with the course software.
- Windows Users: Firefox, Chrome, Explorer
- Mac OS Users: Safari, Chrome, Firefox
We recommend setting your screen resolution to 1024 x 768 pixels.
SUGGESTED PLUGINS
- Flash Player
- Real Player
- Adobe Reader
- Java
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