These Content Areas are an essential component of the credentials. Content helps practitioners who work with children, youth, and families determine where they are on the career lattice and gives them insight on how to move forward.
Content Areas help higher education faculty members or administrators:
Design courses to ensure that students completing programs can demonstrate mastery of the competencies.
Coordinate content of courses to facilitate transfer and articulation.
Content Areas help teachers and caregivers in a variety of settings as well as students studying early care and education:
Evaluate current levels of knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
Identify areas of need for professional development.
