100 Days
a) 5 Days per week (Monday to Friday)
b) 2 hours per day
Completely Online
3 Months
We guarantee a job as soon as the program is completed.
Filled with interaction, learning and lots of activities to make you enjoy your learning experience with a family of like-minded Early Childhood Professionals.
An expert in Early Childhood Education with more than 10 years of experience in Classroom Teaching, Curriculum Development, School Management and Teacher Training.
University Approved Certificate
(The academic curriculum of the certificate in Early Childhood Development has been approved by the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Lifelong Learning, *Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai*)
PROGRAM DETAILS
This program aims at developing the essential competencies in candidates
to teach effectively in pre-schools and other Early Childhood Programs. The course caters to pre-service and in-service women in the ECCE domain. The training materials are developed keeping in mind the current
scenario of education across the country’s socio-economic backgrounds. The program helps students in the following areas:
- Builds on their quality of nurturing children
- Improves confidence and independence
- Builds focus towards future goals
- Strengthens their social interaction
- Polishes communication & interpersonal skills
- Enables use of functional technology
- Stimulates creativity
- Enables financial growth independence
- Equips them to balance multiple roles
- Develops in them a practical view of society
Qualification of the students to apply for the Program
Pre-requisites for the Course:
- 10+2 in any stream
- An aptitude and interest for interacting and working with children
Course Structure
Certificate Course in Early Childhood Development
Knowledge building and observation-3 months-180 hours
14.5 weeks, 5 sessions week of 2.5 hour each
Paid Practical Internship:
240 hours (3 months)
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Observation
Conducting Lessons
2.5 Hour
Session
30 Min
Communication
Recap &
Conslution
Assignments
Workshops
Overall Assessments
Lessons-Wise Assessments
Field Practicum
This program aims at developing the Field practicum is an integral part of the program. It enables the student teachers to be classroom-ready. It consists of brief visits / observations followed by Internship.
Field practicum gives an opportunity to the student teachers to observe, interact & work with children and build an understanding of how children learn. The presence of a peer / teacher with higher experience
in the classroom where student teachers work as observers, helps them progress. It enables them to shoulder responsibility in planning and implementing for effective teaching-learning. The objective of the field
practicum is to:
- Work with children in different settings and build an understanding of their development needs
- To help observe, understand and implement the various roles played by a teacher
- Plan and implement effective experiences for children
- Work alongside experienced peers (i.e. other teachers, supervisors) individually and in groups Develop a body of work which will facilitate them in their role in ECE programs in the future
Observations: (15 Hours)
The observations are scheduled for about 15 hours consisting of
- Child Observation
- Balwadi or a low income school observation
- An early childhood education program observation.
The process of observation helps the student teachers build an understanding of the components of environments where children are nurtured in standard and low income settings. Additionally, the student teachers will get to observe the real-life application of prevalent teaching learning methods in ECCE, thereby helping them contextualise their learnings in the classroom.
Internship: (225 Hours)
Student teachers are expected to intern with pre-schools, kindergartens, nursery schools, balwadis, anganwadis, NGOs, crèches, day care centres, mother toddler programs, after school activity classes or other
institutions providing ECE programs. Student Teachers and ECE Institutes are provided with guidelines for internship, to ensure effective learning and optimal experience for students. This practical internship
spans over 12 weeks or 60 days for 3 hours a day.
Here the student teachers are expected to be involved in observing, planning and managing the classroom with the head teacher or the facilitator at the institution. The role of the student teacher is
to build an understanding of active involvement and optimum interaction with children. Student teachers are expected to plan and implement activities across areas of:
- Music and movement
- Circle time activity
- Literacy & Numeracy
- Storytelling using ateaching aid
- Picture talk on a concept
- Outdoor activity
- Fine motor activities
- Creative activity
- Science experiment
- Cooking experience
- Planning a special event
- Parent Interaction through any one or more mediums
All the student teachers are required to document their learning through internship report, lesson plans and reflective journals which would be evaluated by the trainer.
Assessments
A standardized and centralised assessment mechanism is developed. A blend of quantitative and qualitative assessment, as well as ongoing and cumulative feedback helps give a rounded assessment of learners.
The ongoing assessment is carried out in the form of student documentation, submissions, voice of learners, classroom participation and peer and individual learning work, submitted to the trainers.
Summative assessment is conducted at the end of the course, to ensure learning goals have been met, and learners are ready to implement knowledge and skills in the real-world scenario. Summative assessments
are focused towards assessing readiness to work with children and early years programs, hence have an objective, experiential and non-theoretical bend.
Attendance
Students are required to maintain a mandatory attendance of 75% during the theory sessions and 75% during the Field Practicum elements of the course.
Employment and Self-Employment Opportunities
- Employment Opportunities
- Pre-School Teacher with a Pre-School /Pre-School Arm of Full School
- Day Care Teacher
- Conduct After School Classes
- Curriculum Developer
- Self-Employment Opportunities
- Open your own Play School
- Open your toy library
- Conduct home classes for creativity / art / dance based on your skills
- Employment Opportunities with TITLI
- Teacher Trainer
- Curriculum Developer