EDUC 498W Program Quality
This course will emphasize the components of quality child care. The professional child care system as a comprehensive, quality, growth fostering environment will be explored in terms of the areas that it encompasses. Child care must include all of the elements that affect the quality of life for young children, including staffing, staff qualifications, curriculum, health and safety standards, and staff-parent interactions to mention a few. Based on the concepts of quality child care formulated by NAEYC, the accreditation process as a mechanism for increasing the provision of quality services will be examined and strategies for improving and sustaining quality will be investigated.