ECE 498

Work Experience in Early Childhood Education

This course provides work experience in early childhood settings, primarily child care and development centers, with opportunities to work with children, infancy through the school age years. By combining volunteer or paid work experience with college training, jobs are used as earning settings and together with the employer and college instructor establish learning objectives for the semester. Enrollment is dependent on employment or on availability of voluntary work placement. The student is required to fulfill 18 lecture and 75 hours of related, paid This course provides work experience in early childhood settings, primarily child care and development centers, with opportunities to work with children, infancy through the school age years. By combining volunteer or paid work experience with college training, jobs are used as earning settings and together with the employer and college instructor establish learning objectives for the semester. Enrollment is dependent on employment or on availability of voluntary work placement. The student is required to fulfill 18 lecture and 75 hours of related, paid work experience or 60 hours of volunteer work experience for one unit; 75 or 60 hours of related work experience for each additional unit.

Units: 1.0-4.0(3.0)

Hours: 18 hours LEC; 162 hours LAB