Strengthening Early Childhood Professional Development through Colorado Community Colleges

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Strengthening Early Childhood Professional
Development through Colorado Community Colleges

• Alicia Biggs Community College of Denver
• Linda Forrest Arapahoe Community College
• Kathleen DeVries Red Rocks Community College
• Nancie Linville Clayton Early Learning
• Sandy Minster Clayton Early Learning

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Accomplishment Background

• Formal education of Early Childhood teachers
  matters
• Limited supply of trained teachers
• Demand is increasing

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Accomplishment Background
Community Colleges are the largest provider of
Early Childhood Teacher Prep programs in
Colorado.
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What Community College Early Childhood Programs
Need for Success

• Support to meet demand
• Commitment of Community College Leadership
• Program Improvement plan per college
• Statewide standards
• Increased student supports
• Evidence of prepared EC teachers

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An Approach to Success NAEYC Accreditation
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Participants
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Why now?

• Leverage current momentum
• Produce immediate statewide impact
• Position Colorados Community Colleges as
  National Leaders

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Every day, over 230,000 of Colorados children
need early care and education. Boettchers three
year annual investment of just over 1 per child
in partnership with Colorados Community
Colleges and Clayton Early Learning - will lead
to better-trained teachers and greater success in
school and in life for these children.
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Next Three Years

• Boettcher Funding Action Plans
• Colleges Self-Studies, Syllabi, Grading
  Rubrics, Key Assessments, and Community
  Assessments
• Project Planning Team
• Faculty Development
• NAEYC Accreditation Visits

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Connections and Questions

• How are you involved with your local community
  college?
• Questions you have about Community Colleges
  (local or statewide)
• Ideas or dreams about Early Childhood
  Professional/Teacher Preparation programs

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Contact Information
Nancie Linville, Vice President, Clayton Early
Learning Institute 3801 Martin Luther King
Blvd.,  Denver, CO  80205 303.398.8581 direct
line 303.355.4411 main line  nlinville_at_claytonear
lylearning.org Sandy Minster, Community College
Accreditation Coordinator Clayton Early Learning
Institute 3801 Martin Luther King Blvd., Denver,
CO 80205 303.398.8581 direct line 303.355.4411
main line sminster_at_claytonearlylearning.org
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NAEYC Standards

• Promoting child development and learning
• Building family and community relationships
• Observing, documenting, and assessing to support
  young children and families
• Teaching and learning
• Becoming a professional
• Alignment to Colorado Requirements
• Mapped to Colorado Core Knowledge, Colorado Early
  Childhood Credential Standards and Colorado
  College Competencies.
• Based on same standards used by National Council
  of the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
  to accredit teacher education programs at four
  year institutions.

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Measuring how colleges support student learning

• Students
• Qualifications and characteristics
• Advising/supports
• Faculty
• Qualifications and composition
• Professional responsibilities and development

• Program Design
• Mission and role in community
• Program of studies
• Quality of teaching
• Quality of field experiences
• Program organization and resources

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Community College Contacts