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			Nov 04, 2025			
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                  ECED& 134 - Family Childcare
  3.0 Credits  Learn the basics of family home childcare program management. Topics include: licensing requirements; business management; relationship building; health, safety, and nutrition; guiding behavior; and promoting growth and development. Prerequisite   Corequisite   
  Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)  Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
    - Describe family childcare licensing standards.
 
    - Evaluate specific practices, determining effectiveness in meeting children’s needs for maintaining good health, safety and nutrition.
 
    - Compare strategies for establishing developmentally appropriate, socially and culturally relevant, and safe childcare environments in the home setting.
 
    - Demonstrate plans and activities that are appropriate developmentally, socially, and culturally, to meet the needs of children in multi-age groups.
 
    - Describe and evaluate guidance methods that foster responsibility, independence, self-reliance, and positive social and emotional growth in children.
 
    - Identify strategies for family childcare business management, including marketing, risk management, staffing, tax planning, accounting, and record keeping.
 
    - Discuss strategies for family childcare providers to balance the demands of operating their business with meeting the needs of their families.
 
    - Identify resources meeting the needs of family childcare providers and the families they serve.
 
 - Apply knowledge of children’s development in a child-directed and active learning home-based program that supports each child in a relationship-based context that is the foundation for children’s learning.
  
				  
  
			
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