CAA-ECE Apprenticeship Program
Are you looking for a new career in early childhood education?
The CAA-ECE Apprenticeship Program is the perfect way to become qualified as an early childhood educator. You can choose your own path while learning on-the-job skills with on-site support. This program allows teachers to work together with support from their employer and specialists to increase quality within their early childhood programs. Apprentices work collaboratively with support to develop professional development plans to fit the needs of today’s workforce.
With this apprenticeship, you will be able to provide high-quality early childhood education that meets the needs of all children. You will also have the opportunity to learn new techniques and strategies that will help you grow as an educator.
Apply today or learn more about the CAA-ECE Apprenticeship Program!
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CENTER DIRECTOR MENTORING PROGRAM
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THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
We are excited that you are interested in early childhood education. We accept participants in our program on a rolling basis. Please click below to start the application process.
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
We are happy to provide several sites where you can complete your internship if you are pursuing coursework in a field designed to prepare you for careers working with children.
Blended Hands-on and Online Guidance
Learn while you earn. Work with Specialists to learn the trade and excel quickly.
Expert Mentors
Our Specialists have 20+ years of early childhood education experience.
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Our goal is to help you quickly attain your credentials and certifications so that you can earn top pay in the field.
What do early childhood educators do?
Preschool teachers educate and care for children younger than age 5 who have not yet entered kindergarten. They teach language, motor, and social skills to young children.
Duties
Preschool teachers typically do the following:
- Implement curriculum and early learning content standards to develop lifelong learners in a professional, safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment.
- Ensure positive, nurturing, and effective communication with staff, families, and students.
- Implement Curriculum and perform assessments.
- Possess a working knowledge of the early learning content standards.
- Write and implement lesson plans based on early learning content standards and center-based curriculum themes.
- Perform developmental screenings.
- Continue to be a learner and complete the required 20 biannual hours of QA training.
- Meet each child’s needs with documentation.
- Ensure positive involvement and communication with families.
- Conduct parent conferences and meetings.
- Most importantly, create a positive, safe learning environment in your classrooms,
Young children learn from playing, problem-solving, and experimenting. Preschool teachers use play and other instructional techniques to teach children. For example, they use storytelling and rhyming games to teach language and vocabulary. They may help improve children’s social skills by having them work together to build a neighborhood in a sandbox or teach math by having children count when building with blocks.
Enjoy working with children?
Preschool teachers work with children from different ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds. Teachers include topics in their lessons that teach children how to respect people of different backgrounds and cultures.