The School-Age Teacher Certificate is designed to prepare school-age classroom aides to serve as paraprofessional members of the teaching team in school-age child care. Students are offered knowledge about the development of the school-age child and the role of the adult in helping to integrate skills and aid classroom learning.

To earn the certificate, students must complete the following:

✓ 16 units of general education, specifically a class in each of the following areas: English, Science or Math, Social Science, and Humanities/Fine Arts.
✓ Additional work experience with young children (175 days of 3 hours per day, within 4 years).

These two requirements will also qualify the students to earn a California Teacher Permit, which is used in federal and state-funded programs and licensing regulations for private and faith-based programs.

Learning Outcome(s):

✓ Demonstrate skill and mastery in applying school-age child development themes, theories, and concepts in real/simulated school-age settings or scenarios.
✓ Develop a portfolio of developmentally appropriate school-age activities and programming including discipline strategies, health and safety, social interaction, parent communication, media influences and assessment strategies for the cognitive, psychosocial, and biosocial domains.