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			Nov 04, 2025			
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                  ECED& 134 - Family Child Care
  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. S/U grade option.  Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)  Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
	- Describe family childcare minimum licensing requirements.
 
	- Demonstrate plans and activities that are appropriate developmentally, socially, and culturally, to meet the needs of children in multi-age groups.
 
	- Identify strategies for family childcare business management, including marketing, risk management, staffing, tax planning, accounting, and record keeping,
 
	- Create written documents, such as a contract and policy handbook, that facilitate communication between the provider and the families.
 
	- Develop strategies for creating reciprocal, culturally responsive relationships with families.
 
	- Articulate knowledge and skills that define family childcare providers as professionals.
 
	- 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.
 
 
  Course Typically Offered  Spring
  
				  
  
			
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