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Earn Your Naonal Family Child Care Child Development Associate (CDA) Credenal™ The “Best First Step” to enhance your skills and professional development! Did you know Family Child Care providers who parcipate in accreditaon, credenaling and quality rang programs aract more parents to their early care seng? By parcipang in professional development programs, parents can have confidence in the investment you made to raise the quality of care and educaon for their children. By earning your Naonal Family Child Care (FCC) Child Development Associate (CDA) Credenal™ you can raise the quality of care for the young children in your care. The Council for Professional Recognion stands ready to support you in the work that you do on behalf of young children and their families. By earning your CDA, you will gain the skills and knowledge to deliver more high quality learning opportunies and services for young children. To apply for the Naonal FCC Child Development Associate (CDA) Credenal™, you must have: At least 480 hours of experience working with children ages zero-5 in a group seng 120 clock hours of professional educaon with an emphasis on children ages zero-5 Professional Porolio that reflects your professional development experiences Family quesonnaires from a majority of families that have a child in your care Upon approval of your applicaon, you will schedule your Verificaon Visit with a CDA Professional Development (PD) Specialist which involves: An on-site observaon of children in your seng A Reflecve Dialog with the PD Specialist To complete the credenaling assessment process, you will schedule your CDA exam at a local Pearson Vue tesng center. You can schedule the CDA Exam before or aſter the Verificaon Visit. To learn more about the NEW CDA assessment process and the tesng locaons, visit the Council’s website at www.cdacouncil.org/the-cda-credenal or call Customer Support at 1-800-424-4310. Take YOUR first step today to earning your CDA™ as a Family Child Care educator! Workbook E ssentials Valora Washington, Ph.D., Editor Essentials Workbook Valora Washington, Ph.D., Editor
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Earn Your Nati onal Family Child CareChild Development Associate (CDA) Credenti al™
The “Best First Step” to enhance your skills and professional development!Did you know Family Child Care providers who parti cipate in accreditati on, credenti aling and quality rati ng programs att ract more parents to their early care setti ng? By parti cipati ng in professional development programs, parents can have confi dence in the investment you made to raise the quality of care and educati on for their children.
By earning your Nati onal Family Child Care (FCC) Child Development Associate (CDA) Credenti al™ you can raise the quality of care for the young children in your care.
The Council for Professional Recogniti on stands ready to support you in the work that you do on behalf of young children and their families. By earning your CDA, you will gain the skills and knowledge to deliver more high quality learning opportuniti es and services for young children.
To apply for the Nati onal FCC Child Development Associate (CDA) Credenti al™, you must have: At least 480 hours of experience working with children ages zero-5 in a group setti ng 120 clock hours of professional educati on with an emphasis on children ages zero-5 Professional Portf olio that refl ects your professional development experiences Family questi onnaires from a majority of families that have a child in your care
Upon approval of your applicati on, you will schedule your Verifi cati on Visit with a CDA Professional Development (PD) Specialist which involves: An on-site observati on of children in your setti ng A Refl ecti ve Dialog with the PD Specialist
To complete the credenti aling assessment process, you will schedule your CDA exam at a local Pearson Vue testi ng center. You can schedule the CDA Exam before or aft er the Verifi cati on Visit.
To learn more about the NEW CDA assessment process and the testi ng locati ons, visit the Council’s website at www.cdacouncil.org/the-cda-credenti al or call Customer Support at 1-800-424-4310.
Take YOUR fi rst step today to earning your CDA™ as a Family Child Care educator!
Workbook
Essentials
Valora Washington, Ph.D., Editor
� e Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™ is the most widely recognized credential in early childhood education (ECE) and is the best � rst step on the path of career advancement in ECE. � e distinctive CDA Creden-tial is the only nationally-recognized, portable, reciprocal, competency-based credential of its kind in the country.� e Child Development Associate (CDA) National Credentialing Program™ is the unique teacher credentialing process, administered by the Council for Professional Recognition, which results in the award of the CDA Credential. � e Program uses a speci� c set of time-tested, research-based tools to determine early childhood teacher competency, based on multiple sources of evidence. Having the CDA Credential from the Council for Professional Recognition
veri� es that teachers have the ability to put the Council’s nationally-recognized CDA Competency Standards into practice and the understanding of why those Standards help children move with success from one developmental stage to another. Over the past forty years, more than 300,000 educators have received the Preschool,
Infant/Toddler, Family Child Care or Home Visiting Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential™!
Essentials WorkbookISBN 978-0-9903072-4-2
Essentials Workbook
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