Career and Technical Education:

Assistant Child Care Teacher Certification: A Program Planning Guide

No. 4050, 2003, 190 pp., $36

Child care is essential to the work force. With so many parents working outside the home and needing child care for their children, well-trained child care workers are needed.

In order to address this need, a high school course was implemented in 1988 that meets the requirements of the Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) to license assistant child care teachers to work in day-care facilities. During the past year a task force worked to update the teacher's guide to implement this program at the secondary level. This new guide, Assistant Child Care Teacher Certification: A Program Planning Guide, has the most current requirements of the Assistant Child Care License and has the competencies matched with the Wisconsin's Model Academic Standards for Family and Consumer Education. The competencies identified by the Wisconsin Technical College System in its state approved course also are matched to the units in the new certification publication.

This guide replaces its predecessor, Assistant Child Care-A Teacher's Guide, but the steps in the process of certification as an Assistant Child Care Teacher remain the same. Students must take a course in Child Development and enroll in the semester course for Assistant Child Care Teacher (ACCT). This course is taught by a Family and Consumer Education teacher who has a 211 license. After meeting the requirements for the ACCT certification, students may enroll in the State Skill Co-op Child Care Services. Wisconsin's Skill Standards for Child Services is a Department of Public Instruction curriculum guide available for this Co-op which certifies students as a child care teacher.

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