Early Childhood Education (AAS)(Plan Code: ECEECAPT)

Academic Plans, known as programs, include an overview description and a summary of program requirements. You can search the online catalog via the Academic Plan links on the right for a desired program or a specific course information. 

The course of study in Early Childhood Education conforms to the following:

• Guidelines for preparation of early childhood professionals; Washington State Skill Standards; and
• Early childhood education professional competencies.

Program Outcomes

Program outcomes are overarching skills that are emphasized and reinforced throughout several courses in a specific program; they are measurable statements that define what students should know or be able to do by the end of a certificate or degree at Clark College. After successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Articulate well-considered ideas and written claims to an academic audience, using effective rhetorical techniques, properly credited evidence, and a command of Standard English. (GE)
• Demonstrate interpersonal/human relations skills. (GE)
• Demonstrate and clearly explain an effective strategy to solve a quantitative problem. (GE)
• Apply a method of scientific inquiry, valid to the natural sciences, to evaluate claims about the natural world. (GE)
• Demonstrate progress toward healthier behaviors. (GE)
• Evaluate, analyze, and explain events, behaviors, and institutions using perspectives and methods in the Social Sciences. (GE)
• Interpret the human experience, within appropriate global and historical contexts, through evaluation, analysis, creation, or performance. (GE)
• Promoting Child Development and Learning: Students will apply developmental knowledge to create learning environments and meaningful activities.
• Building Family and Community Relationships: Students will recognize, support and partner with families and communities in learning environments and with meaningful activities.
• Observing, Documenting and Assessing to Support Young Children and Families: Students will apply the process of observation to diverse, and appropriate assessments of children.
• Teaching and Learning: Students will apply developmentally appropriate practices when implementing meaningful curriculum in the classroom.
• Becoming a Professional: Students will apply professional standards and frameworks in early learning classrooms.
• Power, Privilege and Inequity: Students will analyze and evaluate their awareness of equity pedagogy and create strategies for implementing cultural competence in their work with children and their families.

Program maps are a suggested academic plan and should not be used in the place of regular academic advising appointments. Your student entry method, placement, course availability, and program requirements are subject to change and transfer credit(s) may change your map/plan.
To view the current suggested map for your program please visit our website https://programmap.clark.edu/academics