Infant/Toddler Specialist
Certificate of Achievement
Program Details
This certificate provides students who are interested in becoming aides, assistant teachers and head teachers in programs that serve infants and toddlers with the skills and competencies they will need to be successful. This certificate will enable them to become a fully qualified teacher according to state licensing regulations as well as meet the Early Childhood Education course requirements of the California Child Development Permit for Associate Teacher and Teacher (with additional general education requirements and work experience requirements fulfilled). Students who already possess a BA degree in any subject will be able to earn a Master Teacher or Site Supervisor Permit. Students who earn this certificate and meet experience requirements as identified by the CA Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) are eligible to: provide service in the care, development, and instruction of children in a child care and development program, and supervise an Assistant and an aide. A minimum grade of “C” in each course is required to earn the certificate and/or qualify for the Child Development Permit.
Infant/Toddler Specialist Pathways
Pathways listed below are for the catalog year 2025-2026. Maps for previous years are available on each pathway page. What is a catalog year?
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help you work towards your educational goals.
- analyze the multiple contextual influences on infant and toddler development including diverse family practices and environment, including strategies to promote healthy relationships in the care and education of infants and toddlers and to create safe and healthy environments which meet licensing requirements and are responsive to the needs of individual infants and toddlers.
- connect observed behaviors of children birth to 36 months to developmental concepts and theories in all developmental domains and analyze the multiple contextual influences on infant and toddler development including diverse family practices and environment;