Education/Early Childhood
Student Handbook
Our Mission
The SMC Education/Early Childhood Program prepares students for careers in early care and education, including transfer to a four-year college/university. In collaboration with high quality community partners, we offer coursework, mentoring, and field experiences that build student's capacity for integrating interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, critical thinking, inquiry driven practice, and advocacy to teach and support children, families, and the early care community.
Our Values
Our program values the diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, identities, and aspirations of our students. We acknowledge structural inequities that privilege some and disadvantage others. We engage students as collaborators in identifying inequitable practices and replacing them with those that advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in early care and education, so that they in turn can advance equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for themselves and the children and families they will serve.
HANDBOOK CONTENTS
Petitioning for a Certificate/Degree
Introduction to Early Care and Education (noncredit)
Early Childhood Associate Teacher (12 units)
Early Childhood Studies (30-60 units)
Infant and Toddler Teaching (30-60 units
Nature Based Pedagogy (22 units)
Early Childhood Education - Transfer (6- units)
Child and Adolescent Development - Transfer (60 units)
Transitional Kindergarten Teaching (24 units)
Elementary Teacher Education (18 units)
Standards for Successful Program Completion
LiveScan Background Checks
Conduct Guidelines While in the Field
Student Concerns
Disciplinary Action & Removal from the Program
Statment of Concern & Plan of Correction
Skills and Abilities
Mobility, Strength, and Motor Skills
Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Abilities
Communication Skills
Interpersonal/Intrapersonal Skills
Cognitive Skills and Abilities
Professionalism
Ethical Behaviors
Appropriate Fieldwork Attire
Media Devices
Personal Possessions
Transportation & Parking
Accessing the Center
Observation Lab & Deck
Scheduling Observation Appointments
ECE Classrooms
Education Counselors
Tutoring & Mentoring Resources (ECE 900)
Manson-Weingarten Student & Family Resource Center
Textbook Lending Library
Appendix A - Handbook Acknowledgement Form
Appendix B - Statement of Concern
Appendix C - Written Warning & Plan of Correction
Appendix D - Confidentiality Contract
Appendix E - Liability for Personal Possessions