2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Early Childhood Education Technology
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The Early Childhood Education Technology program provides preparation for a professional career in early childhood education spanning a variety of career options. This discipline includes classroom instruction, supervised laboratory experiences, and work-based learning experiences. Students will develop competencies that enable them to provide services, teach, and guide young children in various early childhood professions.
The Early Childhood Education Technology curriculum is a two-year discipline that requires a minimum of 60 semester hours of course work. Successful completion of the Early Childhood Education Technology curriculum results in the student receiving a Career Certificate, Technical Certificate and/or an Associate of Applied Science degree. This curriculum meets the National Association for the Education of Young Children Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation and the Mississippi Department of Education Standards and Guidelines for Pre-Kindergarten (3- and 4-year-olds). *The content for the Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential is embedded in the Early Childhood Education Technology course work.
Jobs are available for students who complete this discipline in public, private, corporate or parochial early childhood education programs, including those in public and private child care centers that serve children of all socioeconomic levels and abilities.
The campus child care center is licensed by the Mississippi Department of Health as a Child Care Facility and for food service.
The Early Childhood Education Technology program offers a Child Development Assistant Infant and Toddler Certificate of Proficiency, a Child Development Assistant Pre-school Certificate of Proficiency, a Career certificate, a Technical certificate and/or an Associate of Applied Science. Students in the program will complete the PrePAC exam.
Special admissions requirements: Students who wish to enroll in the Early Childhood Education Technology program must:
- Comply with the criminal background check procedure mandated by the law of the State of Mississippi.
- Submit a completed Immunization Record Form 121 obtainable from the State of Mississippi Public Health Department.
Advisers: Drumheller, Ross
- Offered at Senatobia campus only
Career Certificate
Technical Certificate
Associate of Applied Science
The Mississippi Early Childhood Resource and Referral
The Resource and Referral collaborates with participating community and junior colleges, the Mississippi Department of Human Services, and child care providers to ensure that Mississippi’s family-based unified and integrated early childhood system connects and integrates resources and services for both parents/caregivers and their children.
The Resource and Referral offers a variety of services and programs designed to meet the early education needs of children across the state of Mississippi. Our services include resources and referral; assistance for families searching for child care; training, coaching, and technical assistance for early childhood professionals; and working with other service organizations and the business community.
Technical Assistant Coordinators work with early childhood professional in child care centers to support the improvement and quality of classroom instruction, the classroom environment, and teacher-child interaction by: Encouraging, supporting, motivating, and working interactively with teachers and assistant teachers to develop and implement ongoing goals. Supporting the teacher and teacher assistant to provide a learning atmosphere and opportunities which promote: the child’s growth and development, approaches to learning, social-emotional development, creative arts, science, and mathematics. Assisting teachers and assistant teachers to structure environments, routines, and interactions that contribute to positive social-emotional outcomes for the children and families in a program.
Focusing on specific tasks, skills, or techniques which can be mastered and measured. Implementing developmentally appropriate infant and toddler teaching techniques and search-based curriculum for infant, toddler, and preschool aged classrooms.
The Lending Library
The Lending Library is a collection of age-appropriate early childhood resources with a variety of learning materials that include: multiple books, games, puppets, etc., for the use of parents and providers who serve early learners. Items available for lending include puzzles, age-appropriate books, sensory items, infant and toddler resources, dramatic play materials, and much more. Materials are distributed on a “borrow basis” to providers and families. The Resource and Referral Associate is in the Resource Center to help with all of your needs.
For more information please contact Heather Perryman at hperryman@northwestms.edu or 662-560-4201.
Northwest Child Enrichment Center
The Northwest Child Enrichment Center is located in the Marilyn R. Spears Building on the Senatobia campus. It is operated by the Early Childhood Education Technology program and licensed by the Mississippi Department of Health.
The center is open to preschool children (3-4 years of age) of Northwest faculty, staff, and students as well as children from the surrounding community. Information on the application process and fee schedule can be obtained at the center.
For more information please contact Center Director Anne Ross at aross@northwestms.edu.
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