California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 8 - Commission on Teacher Credentialing › Chapter 1 - Credentials Issued Under the Teacher Preparation and Licensing Law of 1970 › Article 5 - Permits Authorizing Service in Child Care and Development Programs › Section 80105 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this article, each of the following terms has
					 the meaning herein shown:
(a) "Child
				  Development Permit" means any permit issued by the Commission on Teacher
				  Credentialing which authorizes service in the care, development and instruction
				  of children in a child care and development program. Child Development Permits
				  were formerly referred to as Children's Center Permits.
(b) "Child care and development program"
				  means any state licensed center-based child care and development program
				  operated by a person, association, organization or school district legally
				  authorized to conduct such programs.
(c) "General education" means course work
				  from a regionally accredited institution of higher education in subject areas
				  other than early childhood education and/or child development. The candidate
				  must have earned a "C" or above in each course to be accepted.
(d) "Supervised field experience" means
				  instruction performed in a child care and development program for college
				  credit which is supervised by a person approved by a regionally accredited
				  institution of higher education.
(e) "Early childhood education/child
				  development course work" means college course work from a regionally accredited
				  institution of higher education primarily related to children ages five years
				  or younger. Twenty-five percent of the course work may be extended to cover
				  children ages five to, and including, eight years. The candidate must have
				  earned a "C" grade or above in each course to be accepted. The coursework must
				  be non-remedial. "Non-remedial" coursework for the purpose of this section
				  shall be defined as coursework that is applicable toward an associate of arts
				  degree or higher at a regionally accredited institution of higher
				  education.
(f) "Commission approved
				  alternative education programs" means training which occurs outside of a
				  regionally accredited institution of higher education that has been approved by
				  the Commission to meet all or part of the requirements for obtaining a Child
				  Development Permit. Commission approved alternative education programs must
				  meet criteria established by the Commission in consultation with the
				  Superintendent of Public Instruction in order to be applied toward the
				  Permit.
(g) "Child Development
				  Associate (CDA) credential" means a nationally recognized certificate issued by
				  the CDA Credentialing Commission in Washington DC.
(h) "Professional growth" means participation
				  in activities that contribute to a permit holder's competence, performance or
				  effectiveness in the early childhood profession. Such activities may include
				  but are not limited to college or university coursework, conferences,
				  workshops, institutes, academies, symposia, and staff development
				  programs.
(i)
(1) "Core areas" for the Child Development
				  Permit means individual courses or training in each of the following areas:
(A) child and/or human development;
(B) child, family and community or child and
				  family relations; and
(C) programs
				  and curriculum.