With a preschool credential you can start applying child development theory to your practice as a professional child care provider through Child Care Education.
This program is also available in Spanish.
You will learn techniques to observe, record, and assess growth and development in children while implementing a developmentally appropriate curriculum.
Courses focus on how to incorporate developmentally appropriate guidance strategies, while providing a respectful, diverse, and inclusive program.
To earn your Registry Preschool Credential, you will need to complete the following three-credit courses:
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Students are introduced to the early childhood profession. Course competencies include: Integration of strategies that support diversity and anti-bias perspectives; investigate the history of early childhood education; summarize types of early childhood education settings; identify the components of a quality early childhood education program; summarize responsibilities of early childhood education professionals; explore early childhood curriculum models.
ECED 2210 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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Health, safety, and nutrition within early childhood education is the focus of this course. Competencies include: strategies supporting diversity and anti-bias perspectives; governmental regulations and professional standards; and provide a safe healthy, and nutritionally sound early childhood program. This course will also examine child abuse and neglect issues and mandates; describe Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) risk reduction strategies, describe strategies to prevent the occurrence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS); incorporate health, safety, and nutrition concepts into the children's curriculum.
ECED 3400 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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This 3-credit course will focus on beginning level curriculum development in the specific integrated content areas of social studies, art, music, and movement (SSAMM) for teaching children aged three to six years old, including integrating play-based learning. Learn the skills and resources needed to design, implement, and evaluate developmentally appropriate, meaningful and challenging curriculum for each group of children and individual child in the early learning environment.
ECED 3440 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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Examine child development within the context of the early childhood education setting. Course competencies include: the social, cultural, and economic influences on child development; child development theories; and the development of children age three through age eight; including methods of child development research.
ECED 3220 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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This 3-credit course examines positive strategies to guide children's behavior in the early childhood education setting. Course competencies include: integrate strategies that support diversity, cultural responsiveness, and anti-bias perspectives; analyze techniques for and effects of strong relationship-building with children and families; identify positive and proactive guidance principles and techniques to support children; analyze environmental influences on child behavior; identify strategies that support children's active engagement in the learning environment; identify strategies that proactively teach emotional literacy and regulation techniques; identify strategies that proactively teach friendship skills; identify strategies that proactively teach children calming, relaxation, and problem-solving techniques; utilize observation and assessment techniques to assess and interpret behavior; create a behavior support plan based on a functional behavior assessment; create a guidance philosophy. This course meets the requirements of the "24 hour Wisconsin" Pyramid Model training.
ECED 3460 | 3 undergrad credits/45 contact hours
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This course explores strategies to encourage the development of early language and literacy knowledge and skill building in children birth to 8 years of age. Learners will investigate the components of literacy including; literacy and a source of enjoyment, vocabulary and oral language, phonological awareness, knowledge of print, letters and words, comprehension and an understanding of books and other texts. Theories and philosophies regarding children's language and literacy development will be addressed. Dual language learning will be examined within the context of developmentally appropriate practices. Assessment tools for early language and literacy acquisition will be reviewed.
ECED 3480 | 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.
