• Lead Early Childhood Education Teacher
• Family Child Care Provider

Lead Early Childhood Teacher Skill Standards Manual
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Family Child Care Provider Skill Standards Manual
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(Body - Large file: 1.15 MB) 

Infant & Toddler Specialist Skill Standards Manual
(Cover)
(Body - Large file:1.15 MB) 

School-Age Care Professional Skill Standards Manual
(Cover)
(Body - Large file: 1.20 MB) 
Addendum - Critical Work Function
Addendum - Final Report

The Early Childhood Professions Skill Standards Project is being developed by eleven early childhood education faculty from nine community and technical colleges.

The goals of the project are to develop skill standards for four job clusters:

1) lead early childhood teacher of children ages 2-6 in center based programs;

2) family child care providers who run home based businesses that serve infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school ages to age 12;

3) school age site directors of programs designed for children ages 5-12 before and after school;

4) infant/toddler specialists who provide programs for children from birth to age 3 in family child care, child care centers and early Head Start programs.

The Early Childhood Lead Teacher document is ready for printing and should be available in May for distribution.

Two early childhood consortium members, Judy Konopaski and Toogy Shepard, from Bellevue Community College are using the skill standards document to develop curriculum for a COSTCO project. COSTCO is planning to build a child care and family support center for COSTCO employees as well as for community families in the area of COSTCO's national headquarters in Kirkland. COSTCO is collaborating with Bellevue Community College on using this site for training in early childhood and perhaps a model for other COSTCO stores.

The Family Child Care document is currently under development and is expected to be completed by June 30, 1999.

The School Age Child Care DACUM workshop was held at Highline Community College on February 10, 1999. Also at Highline Community College on March 5, 1999 was the Infant and Toddler Specialist DACUM Workshop. The SCANS Survey, job descriptions and scenarios for these two job clusters are expected to be completed by June 30, 1999. Additional funding will be needed to complete these two documents during summer, 1999.

- Submitted by Barbara Clampett, Program Contact, April 19, 1999

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