Gateways Credential Content Areas

Seven Content Areas have been established that serve as the foundation for each Gateways to Opportunity credential. These Content Areas are:

  1. Human Growth and Development
  2. Health, Safety, and Well-Being
  3. Observation and Assessment
  4. Curriculum or Program Design
  5. Interactions, Relationships, and Environments
  6. Family and Community Relationships
  7. Personal and Professional Development

Three threads are embedded throughout each Content Area:

  • Children with Special Needs: Children with diverse abilities that impact their learning and development.

  • Culture: The cultural context of children and their families that is essential to the creation of high-quality care and education experiences.

  • Individual and Group Guidance: Supportive relationships with children to guide them as individuals and as part of a group.

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, caregivers, and students in a variety of early care and education and school-age care settings:

  • Evaluate current levels of knowledge, skills, and dispositions.
  • Identify areas of need for professional development.
  • Determine what training or courses are needed.

To view each credential Content Area, click on the links below:

For a broader history of the Content Areas, please read the Gateways to Opportunity Credential Content Area History.

 

 

Gateways to Opportunity is funded by public and private support including the McCormick Foundation, the Grand Victoria Foundation,    


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