Skills developed through qualitative research and community partnerships can be essential for developing education students' cultural competency and understandings about diverse student populations. Toward this end, we developed a qualitative "service-research" project in a teacher education course focused on child development, whereby…

This paper discusses an approach to competency-based teacher education whose goal is the development of early childhood education teachers who have the requisite knowledge, attitudes, and skills for facilitating children's cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development and who are well-informed, creative, flexible, open to experience,…

The SODIA program is the 1974 Distinguished Achievement Awards entry from the Elementary Education Department at Utah State University. (SODIA stands for the five levels that students progress through during their 4-year undergraduate program: Self, Others, Disciplines, Implementation, and Associate teachers.) The program is designed to prepare…

The paper presents core competencies which are appropriate across service delivery models and across disciplines for training personnel in early intervention. Part I provides a historic perspective on practices, child development research, the federal role, children served, family involvement, and the need for early intervention. Part II contains…

In this Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, the trainee is provided with basic concepts of child development. The identity, socialization and sense of self worth of the child are emphasized. Techniques for observing the behavior of 3- to 5-year-old children are indicated. As a result, the trainee can learn how to make and maintain,…

These revisions arose from two major concerns: the lack of quality education evidence among many low-income, minority group children living in urban settings and the ambiguity concerning the nature and extent of relationships between teacher training efforts and a child's learning. This proposal examines the possible relationships between…

Competencies for the Child Development Associates is a comprehensive, developmental training program for teachers of preschool children, in which the total design is to help children acquire the basic competencies and skills for full development, while at the same time assuring that the quality of the child's experiences is emotionally satisfying…

Presented is a competency based curriculum for the preparation of teachers of very young (0-6 years old) handicapped children which includes knowledge and application competencies in the areas of child growth and development, caregiving approaches, caregiving curriculum and physical environment, and self development and human relations.…

The "All About Child Care: Instructor's Guide" is designed as a companion volume to the All About Child Care: Trainee's Manual. Like the manual, the instructor's guide is divided into 14 units covering health, safety, cognitive development, individual strength, language development, prereading skills, self concept, social development,…

"All About Child Care: Trainee's Manual" provides a means for acquiring and demonstrating the knowledge and skills of an effective child care practitioner. The Manual is divided into 14 units with each unit built around a set of competencies. These sets of competencies correspond to the 13 functional areas described in the Child…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, one of a series of 18, is intended to provide the intern with the knowledge and skills necessary for helping children develop their body skills. The module stipulates competency-based objectives and provides essential information, suggestions, examples and learning activities on three topics…

This document reports on the Southwest (Region VI) Child Development Associate (CDA) assessment program during the 1973-74 and 1974-75 school years. Activities conducted through the office of the regional coordinator of CDA assessment are listed. An assessment system was developed and implemented to meet three needs: (1) to screen and rank CDA…

This paper describes the competency-based early childhood preservice program at Iowa's Mount Mercy College, which is for people working with children from birth through age 8, including children with special needs. Program content encompasses five competency areas: child growth and development; developmentally appropriate learning; health, safety,…

This paper reports on a study designed to increase the psychological and educational knowledge of day care staff and develop content and methods appropriate for toddlers in day care settings. Preschool teachers and nursery nurses in three day care centers participated. They were interviewed at the beginning of the study, and 19 months later at the…

One of a series of curriculum materials developed for training Child Development Associates, this set of training materials focuses upon program planning skills. After successfully completing this area of the curriculum, trainees should be able to perform in several ways, including the following: (1) develop awareness of the scope of the 13…