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Certificate in Para Education

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Total Units: 12

Term 1

12 Units. Specified core courses are signified by icon.

	Course Name	Units	Notes
	CDF-14: Child Growth/Development	3
Unit(s): 3.00 Recommended Prep: Reading Level V; English Level IV Transfer Status: CSU/UC Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Total Course Hours: 51.00 This course examines the major physical, cognitive, social and emotional developmental milestones for children, both typical and atypical, from conception through adolescence. There will be an emphasis on interactions between developmental processes and environmental factors including abuse and neglect. While studying developmental theory and investigative research methodologies, students will observe children, evaluate individual differences and analyze characteristics of development at various stages. (C-ID CDEV 100).
	EDUC-4: Intro Para Ed	3	Requires 51 hours of field experience, per course, per term.
Unit(s): 3.00 Recommended Prep: Reading Level IV; English Level III Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 34.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Total Course Hours: 85.00 This course will prepare students to instruct and support diverse individuals as a para-educator. Topics include the history, legislation and documentation of special education and instructional strategies for various disabilities and students from diverse backgrounds. Students will be required to complete fifty-one hours of field experience working with Exceptional Populations in the TK-12 classroom environment.
	EDUC-2: Intro to Education	3	Requires 51 hours of field experience, per course, per term.
Unit(s): 3.00 Recommended Prep: ENGL 2 or English Level IV Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 34.00 hours Lecture / 51.00 hours Lab Total Course Hours: 85.00 This course introduces students to the concepts and issues related to teaching diverse learners in today’s contemporary schools, Transitional Kindergarten (TK) and Kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12). Topics include teaching as a profession and career, historical and philosophical foundations of the American education system, contemporary educational issues, California’s Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP), and Teacher Performance Standards (TPS). In addition to class time, the course requires 51 hours of structured fieldwork in public school elementary classrooms that represent California’s diverse student population, and includes cooperation with at least one carefully selected and campus-approved certificated classroom teacher. (C-ID EDUC 200).
	EDUC-5: Work W/School-Age Child	3
Unit(s): 3.00 Recommended Prep: Reading Level V; English Level IV Transfer Status: CSU Contact Hours: 51.00 hours Lecture Total Course Hours: 51.00 This course examines the ways adults influence the development of the school-age child. Building from a foundation of established theory, students will analyze the role schools and communities play in the development of the school-age child and their families including current curriculum and classroom strategies. Career options and requirements as well as the role of the para-educator will be examined.