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Early Childhood Associate Apprenticeship Program

Your Butler experience will prepare you for successfully working with children. ECAAP is an apprenticeship program supported by a grant from the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. You’ll gain reflective and guided experience in working with children and families. The goal is to raise the quality of child-care by providing college-level early childhood education to childcare workers through education stipends, salary increases and on-the-job training.

General Education Requirements for Apprenticeship Program

Program Requirements
First Year
Required Courses:

Early Childhood Program and Curriculum Planning CD 220
3
Early Childhood Program and Curriculum Planning Lab CD 221
1

One of the Following

Principles of Early Childhood Education I CD 122
3
Principles of Early Childhood Education II CD 123
3

One of the Following
Parenting CD 219
3
Interaction Techniques with Young Children CD 225
3

Apprentices are to apply for and complete the CDA at the end of the first year.

Second Year Required Course
Child Practicum I CD 223
3
or  
Lic. Home Day Care Practicum I CD 213
3

Any course listed as an option in the first year, not used as a requirement or any course from the following

Infant Development CD 124
3
Child Nutrition and Health CD 121
3
Creative Activities For Children I and II CD 220
2
Children's Literature LT 260
3
First Start: Care of Handicapped Infants and Toddlers CD 135
3
Developmental Psychology BS 260
3
Child Psychology BS 270
3

 

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EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATE APPRENTICESHIP

Career Program
Certificate Offered:
CDA (The Child Development Associate Certification)
The Department of Labor Early Childhood Associate Apprentice Certificate
Credits Required: 20
On the job training: 4,000 hours

Program Information

The apprenticeship program is supported by a grant from the Kansas Development of Social and Rehabilitation Services. An apprentice is an individual who has applied for and been accepted for an apprenticeship and who, with an employer, has a written apprenticeship agreement.

The Early Childhood Associate Apprenticeship Program (ECAAP) is open to all interested child care centers in the Butler County Community College service area and other selected areas throughout Kansas.

Childcare centers interested in developing an apprenticeship program should contact the ECAAP director at Butler County Community College. For more information please contact:

Julia Joy, Director ECAAP, 600 Walnut, Augusta, KS 67010, 316-775-6560, e-mail: jjoy@butlercc.edu

Requirements

An apprentice is an individual who has applied for and been accepted for an apprenticeship and who, with an employer, has a written apprenticeship agreement.

After Butler

Upon completion, any of our programs in Early Childhood Education will qualify you to direct a center of up to 100 children as well as teach and or administrate in childcare centers.

With a certificate or an associate’s degree in Early Childhood Educational you can start a career as a:
Child care director
Child care teacher
Special education paraprofessional
Head Start teacher
Early Head Start teacher


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