Child Development

(Tech Prep Dual Credit)

This one-semester elective course is about children: their development, parenting, and careers related to children. As a class member, you will spend a portion of each week at a preschool in the Maple Valley area where you will work with preschool children making practical applications of classroom learning by designing activities for the children. You will explore growth and development from conception through age six, preparartion for parenthood, and special issues concerning children. Careers related to child development will be studied. The student has the responsibility to pay the costs of individual projects. (which the student keeps)