Welcome to the Webpage for the Associate Degree in Child Development 

The Child Development Program enables you to pursue an associate's degree that could lead to an associate teaching license for pre-kindergarten. To be eligible for license, you must have 2.5 GPA and pass the required Praxis II. To graduate with the degree without license, you must have 2.0 GPA. Upon completion of your associate's degree, you may continue to pursue your 4-year degree by passing Praxis I, have a 2.75 GPA and complete the prerequisite courses for Selective Admission to Early Childhood major. To see a sample of the Associate's Degree in Child Development Program, please scroll down to Suggested Program Template and click on Child Development Program.

Contact Person

Qiuping Cao

cao@ohio.edu

 

Advising FAQs and Important Forms

Clinical

There is a clinical experience (EDEC2001) designed to maximize the experience for child development students in the program. To be eligible for clinical experience, you must have successfully completed both EDEC1001 and EDEC1600 courses and have obtained the required documents in advance. Please contact Jane Hart at 335 Brasee Hall or email: hartj2@ohio.edu for the required documents and placement for your clinical experiences.

 

EDEC2001: Be prepared to commit 40 hours (one half day a week) for your Sophomore/Preschool Clinical (EDEC2001) when you take the following courses: EDEC2100, EDEC2300, EDEC2500, EDEC3610, EDEC3700, EDEC3801. You will be placed in a preschool classroom with a qualified teacher for this clinical experience. You will be experiencing and practicing what you learned in the course work at university in a preschool classroom. Under the supervision of a qualified teacher, you will observe in action how concepts and strategies you learned regarding the guidance and management, play and creativity, children's literature, emergent literacy, diversity, and emergent math and science for young children actually work in real classrooms.

The clinical experience (EDEC2001) is repeatable and must be registered when you take the above-mentioned courses.

In addition, beginning in Fall 2012, new child development students will be required to take the 2000 block of courses: EDTE2000, EDTE2010, EDTE2020.

 

Practicum: Please fill out the application for your practicum (student teaching) when you are half way through your program. Most of the time, the Practicum is scheduled in the spring semester but can also be specially arranged in Fall.

 

Praxis II: If you intend to apply for the Pre-kindergarten Associate Teaching License, make sure you pass the Praxis II test: Code # 0531 on paper or Code # 5531 on Computer. Click the link and scroll down to the very last License Area: Associate.

For advising, please study your DARS and select the courses you are eligible to take based on your own DARS and the suggested program template before meeting with your advisor. Email Dr. Cao for an appointment.

Suggested Program Template

The course of study template below is a suggestion for you to complete the associate's degree program in two years. However, if you are unable to take the full load, you may reduce your load by picking up courses in other semesters or summer. If you plan to eventually complete a bachelor's degree in early childhood education and earn a teaching license from Pre-K to Grade 3, please also refer to the Early Childhood Education Website and work with your advisor very closely to select the courses that will meet the requirements for both the Child Development Degree and the Early Childhood Education Degree.

 

This is a sample template to complete the degree in two years. In addition to the major requirements, you must meet university general education requirements of Tier II courses:  a minimum of 21 semester hours of TIER II courses that are spread out in the 6 categories. You will need to take advantage of summer course offerings for some Tier II courses so that your load during regular semesters is lightened.

 

Tentative Semester Planner Information

Fall 

EDEC	1001		Intro to ECE
EDEC	1600		Intro to Child Development
EDEC	2001		Sophomore Clinical Experience
EDEC EDEC	2100 2301		Children's Literature Emerging Math and Science Birth  through Five years
EDEC	2400		Infant and Toddler Dev. and Program
EDEC	2500		Emergent Literacy
EDEC	3610		Guidance and Management
EDEC	3701		Diversity in ECE
EDEC	3801		Play and Creative Experiences
EDEC	4100		Family, School, and Community
EDTE	2000		Learning/Human Development
EDTE	2010		Special Learners
EDTE	2020		Field Experience

Spring

EDEC	1001	Intro to ECE
EDEC	1600	Intro to Child Development
EDEC	2001	Sophomore Experience
EDEC	2100	Children's Literature and Story Telling
EDEC	2500	Emergent Literacy
EDEC	2301	Math and Science for Age 6 and under
EDEC	3610	Guidance and Management
EDEC	3701	Diversity in ECE
EDEC	3801	Play and Creative Experience
EDEC	3929	Practicum
EDEC	4100	Family, School, and Community
EDTE	2000	Learning/Human Development
EDTE	2010	Special Learners
EDTE	2020	Field Experience

 

Information about the faculty

Qiuping Cao

Ph.D., The State University of New York at Buffalo

Director of Child Development Technology

Associate Professor

505 Brasee Hall

740-654-6711 x 246

cao@ohio.edu

 

Debra Dunning

Ph.D., The Ohio State University

Instructor

342 Brasee Hall

740-654-6711 x 613

dunning@ohio.edu

Links to Professional/Student Organizations

Ohio Professional Development Network: you may want to register yourself in the OPDN for job and professional development opportunities. This organization caters to the preschool and daycare teachers and directors. 

Ohio Association for the Education of Young Children: this is your state professional organization.

Fairfield Affiliate of OAEYC: this is your local professional organization.