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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog
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CHLD 2413 - Professionalism & Leadership in Early Care & Education

Course presents an in depth study of professionalism and leadership topics meaningful to early care and education directors, principals, and teachers. The profession of early childhood education and what it means to be a professional will be studied. The NAEYC Standards, Position Statements, and Code of Ethical Conduct will be discussed. Relevant current issues, advocacy, integration of knowledge, reflective practice, intentional teaching, and critical perspectives in early education will be presented. The class includes a professional NAEYC Standards-based self-assessment and a planning form for setting goals and charting one’s own professional development in the field of early care and education-assigned field experiences.

Prerequisite CHLD 2003   with a “C” or better (may be taken concurrently).
Semester Offered Fall, Spring, Summer



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