Early Childhood Education: Advanced Teacher

Advance your ECE classroom

The Early Childhood Education Advanced Teacher program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension prepares preschool teachers and operators to manage the unique challenges they face in our region.

Aspiring ECE lead teachers will gain both a thorough academic preparation and practical field experience to work in child centers, preschools, day care facilities, infant and toddler centers and other programs serving young children. Our students learn instructional techniques that promote intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and creative growth in children.

The foundation for a successful ECE career

• Understand child growth and development.
• Build strategies for effective classroom teaching.
• Identify developmentally-based curriculum.
• Know current research and trends in this field.
• Be confident to teach in a daycare center.

Certificate learning outcomes

• Assess teaching styles to inform future experiences with children.
• Master techniques in observation and assessment of the social, intellectual, emotional, physical, and cognitive development of children from birth through adolescence.
• Develop positive guidance strategies to use when working with diverse groups of children including those with special needs.
• Apply differences in major learning theories and curriculum models as it pertains to early childhood education center philosophies.

Meet state licensing requirements

The Early Childhood Education Advanced Teacher certificate program is for people advancing their careers after completing the ECE Associate Teacher Certificate or an equivalent qualification.

• California Department of Education Title 5
  This certificate satisfies California Department of Education Title 5 child development coursework requirements for the Child Development Teacher permit.
• Transitional Kindergarten ECE units
  The program is also designed for teachers requiring ECE/CD coursework for Transitional Kindergarten ECE units.