While providing care for infants and toddlers can be challenging at times, it is always rewarding.Keep up to date on the latest developments in the field and learn from experienced and knowledgeable instructors to build on your own experience providing care through Child Care Education.
This program is also available in Spanish.
You’ll benefit from this credential if you are an infant/toddler teacher, teachers’ assistant, program director, or administrator at an early care center, or if you work in these settings:
- Child care center
- Family child care home
- Head Start program
- Pre-kindergarten
- Early intervention program
- Preschool
To earn your New York Infant-Toddler Care and Education Credential, you will need to complete the following three-credit courses:
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In this 3-credit course you will study infant and toddler development as it applies to an early childhood education setting. Course competencies include: integrate strategies that support diversity, cultural responsiveness, and anti-bias perspectives; analyze development of infants and toddlers (conception to thirty-six months); correlate prenatal and postnatal conditions with development; summarize child development theories; analyze the role of heredity and the environment; examine culturally and developmentally appropriate environments for infants and toddlers, examine the role of brain development in early learning (conception through thirty-six months); examine caregiving routines as curriculum; and examine developmental and environmental assessment strategies for infants and toddlers.
ECED 3240 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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The Group Care course focuses on caring for infants and toddlers in group settings both center-based and family childcare settings. It covers program quality, philosophy, structure, environments, health and safety, developmentally appropriate practice and inclusion/diversity issues.
ECED 3250 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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This course focuses on supporting the child though partnerships with families and collaboration with the community. Topics covered include parent education, involvement, socialization and inclusion as well as such issues as public policy, advocacy, community resources, and professionalism.
ECED 3260 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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The capstone is the last course all students take prior to completing the Infant Toddler Credential. The intent of this capstone course is to cover and revisit some important themes from the prior three courses.
ECED 4200 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
Register
See the below options for what fits your status best:
New or inactive students: If you are taking classes with our program for the first time, or are returning to the program after one year or more has passed since you completed your last course, apply to UW-Platteville as a special non-degree student.
Active students: To register for one of the above courses please log in to PASS, select your semester/term, select the subject “Early Childhood Education” (ECED), and select your course. For more detailed instructions, see steps 4 and 5.
After you are admitted as a special student, you will be able to register for your courses each semester. Please check the academic calendar to keep informed of important deadlines.
Textbooks
You can review your textbooks and:
- Buy them online
- Buy them from a bookstore
- Check them out from your local library
- Check them out from the Wisconsin Child Care Information Center
Do you have questions? Are you ready to enroll?
Please reach out by email at eced@uwplatt.edu or call us at 608.342.1315.
