{ "college": "coastline-college", "edition": "2026-2027", "departmentName": "Education", "id": "education--ed-study-general-certificate-achievement", "name": "Educational Studies: General", "award": "Certificate of Achievement", "department": "education", "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.cccd.edu/coastline/pathways/education/education/ed-study-general-certificate-achievement/", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "markdown": "The certificate serves as a career ladder approach to a credential or permit or as a stand-alone entity to document that a student has taken coursework related to subject matter proficiency and has acquired skills for successful employment as a teacher's aide, after-school program assistant, tutoring or other paraprofessional level classroom career.\n\nThe certificate is especially appropriate for students following various pathways to classroom teaching or an education-related career:\n\n- The paraprofessional or aspiring paraprofessional teacher aide\n- Homeschooling parents \n- The aspiring paraprofessional or currently employed paraprofessional teacher- aide seeking a career ladder approach to a teaching credential and/or child development permit.\n- The teacher- aide paraprofessional who has decided against pursuing an AA and/or credential or permit but would like to acquire knowledge and skills/ professional development relevant to serving as a teacher assistant or support staff in a classroom or school or related environment, concentrating on providing students support in mathematics.\n- Teacher preparation for students on a transfer pathway for a BA and Credential who also desire certificate recognition in Educational Studies: General. \n- Independent tutors seeking a certificate to augment their training and expertise.\n\nIn order to provide an additional pathway to an education-related career, the certificate is for students interested in an education/ teaching-related career who prefer online classes and/or cannot always attend traditional face-to-face classes due to employment, marital status, family responsibilities, distance, and expenses incurred with traditional education schedules. All certificate classes are online.\n\nPossible employment/ illustrative examples: teacher assistant, especially appropriate for transitional Kindergarten (TK) through grade 6, or higher grades remedial; tutor, homework assistant, assistant in academic enrichment programs; recreation specialist; nanny; entry-level position requiring practical skills and knowledge to work with persons with disabilities in a variety of educational settings (this certificate may support, depending on course selection, the requirements of federal legislation that all paraprofessionals/instructional assistants/aides in Title I schools be “highly qualified”); work with k-12 students in an after-school setting; test preparation assistant or provider (CBEST, CSET SAT remedial, ISSE).\n\n#### Program Learning Outcomes\n\n1. Work effectively with students, teachers, parents, colleagues, and administrators in a school and classroom setting.\n2. Apply knowledge, skills, and experience to make an informed choice to be employed or to continue study in the field of education.\n3. Apply the certificate towards entry into a teaching credential or child development permit program, and/or the certificate may serve to document the acquisition of knowledge and skills relevant for employment as a teacher assistant or support staff in a classroom, school, or related environment." }, { "kind": "text", "markdown": "### Requirements\n\nReview Graduation Requirements." }, { "kind": "courselist", "rows": [ { "type": "comment", "text": "Required Core:" }, { "type": "comment", "text": "Complete the following:" }, { "type": "course", "code": "EDUC C103", "title": "Introduction to Computers in Education: Technology Proficiencies for Teachers 1", "units": "2", "indent": false }, { "type": "course", "code": "EDUC C104", "title": "Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contemporary Classrooms Includes 10 hours of required fieldwork/observations", "units": "1", "indent": false }, { "type": "course", "code": "EDUC C180", "title": "Family, School, and Community Partnerships Includes 10 hours of required fieldwork/observations", "units": "3", "indent": false }, { "type": "course", "code": "EDUC C200", "title": "Introduction to Elementary Classroom Teaching Includes 45 hours of required fieldwork", "units": "3.5", "indent": false }, { "type": "course", "code": "PSYC C116", "title": "Child Growth and Development", "units": "3", "indent": false }, { "type": "course", "code": "PSYC C118", "title": "Life Span Developmental Psychology", "indent": false, "connector": "or" }, { "type": "comment", "text": "Elective Courses" }, { "type": "comment", "text": "Select minimum 5.5 units from the following:", "units": "5.5" }, { "type": "course", "code": "EDUC C101", "title": "Tutor Training Includes a three-hour service learning component", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "EDUC C210", "title": "Introduction to Special Education Includes 10 hours of required fieldwork/observations", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "ENGL C143", "title": "Children's Literature", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "HLTH C100", "title": "Personal Health", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "HSVC C100", "title": "Introduction to Human Services", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "MATH C103", "title": "Statistics for Elementary Teachers", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "MATH C104", "title": "Mathematics for Elementary Teachers", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "MATH C106", "title": "Geometry for Elementary Teachers", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "EDUC C211", "title": "Media Literacy Toolkit for Teachers", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "ARAB C180", "title": "Elementary Arabic 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "ARAB C185", "title": "Elementary Arabic 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "CHIN C180", "title": "Elementary Chinese 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "CHIN C185", "title": "Elementary Chinese 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "FREN C180", "title": "Elementary French 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "FREN C185", "title": "Elementary French 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "FREN C280", "title": "Intermediate French 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "FREN C285", "title": "Intermediate French 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "JAPN C180", "title": "Elementary Japanese 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "JAPN C185", "title": "Elementary Japanese 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "SPAN C180", "title": "Elementary Spanish 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "SPAN C180A", "title": "Elementary Spanish 1A", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "SPAN C180B", "title": "Elementary Spanish 1B", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "SPAN C185", "title": "Elementary Spanish 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "SPAN C280", "title": "Intermediate Spanish 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "SPAN C285", "title": "Intermediate Spanish 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "VIET C160", "title": "Vietnamese For Vietnamese Speakers", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "VIET C180", "title": "Elementary Vietnamese 1", "indent": true }, { "type": "course", "code": "VIET C185", "title": "Elementary Vietnamese 2", "indent": true }, { "type": "total", "text": "Total Units", "units": "18" } ] } ] }