Early Childhood Education

Associate Degree Accredited

Early Childhood Education Training for Your Employees

Through Penn Foster’s accredited Early Childhood Education Associate Degree, you can train learners to be effective caretakers for infants, toddlers, and young children, ensuring your childcare center or school provides quality education. The online degree covers essential skills needed for teaching young children, including an understanding of child growth and development, teaching preschoolers, and working with special needs children.

Prepares your employees for roles as teachers or assistant teachers in a childcare center or preschool setting.
Employees apply what they learn to real-world situations in a required 300-hour field experience.
Includes wraparound learner support and access to instructors and coaches, ensuring your workers successfully progress through the training and excel on-the-job.

Accredited

Online

Self Paced

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What Your Learners Will Study

The ability to apply knowledge of child development and learning in an early childhood setting.
Plan, evaluate, and design curriculum appropriate for the education of young children.
The importance of individuality and cultural diversity to assist in creating a meaningful curriculum.
A commitment to and an awareness of the need for lifelong professional growth, learning, community involvement, and advocacy regarding current early childhood research, practices, and issues.

Early Childhood Education Training Curriculum

4 semesters
4 field experience options
63 credits

Through our online Early Childhood Education Degree Program curriculum, your workers will build strong foundational skills that can prepare them to be effective teachers, providing excellent care to the children at your school. Online courses include:

Child growth and development
Infant and toddler care
Working with children with special needs
Guidance in early childhood education

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Our Partners

As the trusted training provider for leading employers, education providers, and job training organizations, Penn Foster designs and delivers digital and blended learning programs that attract, upskill, and retain workers in America's fastest-growing fields and professions.

How it works

Our Proven Training Model

High-quality, online skills training for your employees

Online Delivery

Digital platform allows for studying any time, anywhere
Content is available via computer, mobile device, or tablet
24/7 access to online resource library and knowledge base

Engaging Content

Programs include simulations, videos, and virtual demos
Varied learning methods help cement application of concepts
Real-time feedback enables efficient mastery of material

Robust Support

Self-service tools and unlimited multi-channel support
Live and recorded webinars hosted by our faculty
Access to peer-to-peer community of learners

Real World Credentials

Training programs focus on today’s in-demand job skills
Content developed by professional leaders in the field
Courses align to industry certifications and accreditation