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ECE/CD Department Program Review
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Summary The ECE/CD Department is a career, technical, education (CTE) and transfer program, supporting students throughout their educational journey. The following certificates and degrees are offered: Certificate in Early Childhood Education AS in Early Childhood Education AS-T Early Childhood Education A-AT – Elementary Education A-AT – Child Development We have approximately 475 students a semester (academic year 2016/2017)
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Mission and Vision Vision:
The Early Childhood Education/Child Development Department, is united in focusing on individual student success. Students will choose the College’s ECE/CD Department due to our supportive learning environment, rigorous academic standards…. and our ability to meet the diverse community’s varied educational needs. Mission: The mission of the Department is to provide students with accessible, relevant and engaging educational experiences related to the field of Early Childhood Education/Child Development…
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Articulation Highlights
High School Articulation Agreements San Mateo High School District in place for ECE 210 and ECE 211 courses Conversations with Carlmont to create similar agreements Adult School Collaboration La Costa Adult Schools to offer ECE courses paired with ESL Learning Community SFSU and University of Washington - BA programs at Cañada or Online PATH program – designed for with the workforce in mind; classes offered nights and weekends all classes offered on Cañada’s campus with the goal of increasing the BA degree attainment for ECE students and exisiting workforce In various stages of the online degree – working on articulation of courses; follow up with
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Community and Labor Needs Highlights
Strong community and labor engagement including: Advisory Committees Comprised of community leaders, former students and faculty Development of Teacher Education Pathway To solve the K-12th grade teacher shortage Grants and Categorical Funds EQ+IP grant – Over 10 years, provides ECE students with resources like reduced cost textbook loans and department programing like conferences Foster and Kinship Care Education – Supports individuals interested in becoming a foster parent or if they are currently caring for any child in the foster care system Teacher education pathway includes
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Curricular Changes Development of new AS-Ts Distance Education plan
DE addendums added to all core ECE coursework Certificates/degree alignment To support program diversity and equity To support ECE, Special Education and Education (K-12) 4 faculty able to teach online
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Reflection on Prior Action Plans
Progress made since last action plan on 1) increased outreach; 2) course sequencing and prerequisites Resource Application Staffing Changes ECE Retention Specialist position institutionalized Addition of Sarita Santos Prereqisites placed on 333 and practicum Resource application – stuff was requested and we got it like a document reader, tablet and go pro for online work
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Current State of Program Highlights
Trends Enrollments stable Access and Completion Equity gap identified in male students Looking at “coaching” certificate and focusing on student interested in teaching Elementary to High school to attract more males The Early Childhood profession has traditionally appealed to women so there continues to be a disproportionate amount of female students enrolled in the ECE/CD program. Data (in tables above) indicate that only 6.9% of the ECE/CD student population are male
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Looking Ahead Update to Mission and Vision
IPC Feedback too verbose; needs to be condensed Streamline programing and create teacher education pathways Offer online courses Create and support faculty online learning community
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