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      "markdown": "##### Former Title: Early Childhood Teacher\n\nThis Early Childhood Education Teacher Certificate provides students with knowledge about the comprehensive development of young children, birth to 8 years old. Students will focus on understanding developmentally appropriate practice, effective learning strategies, and how to create and implement a high quality classroom for young children. The practicum component of the program will support the students as they transfer their learning to their work with young children.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s):**\n\n1.  Demonstrate skill and mastery of child development themes, theories, curriculum, and assessment strategies by applying knowledge and skills in a simulated/real preschool setting or scenarios.\n2.  Develop a portfolio of developmentally appropriate curriculum, programming, and assessment strategies for preschoolers in the cognitive, psychosocial, and biosocial domains."
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