{
  "college": "sierra-college",
  "edition": "2025-2026",
  "departmentName": "Human Development and Family",
  "id": "human-development-family--permit-teacher",
  "name": "Child Development Teacher Permit",
  "award": "Program",
  "department": "human-development-family",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.sierracollege.edu/archive/2025-2026/departments/human-development-family/#Permit-Teacher",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "A Child Development Teacher Permit authorizes the holder to provide service in the care, development, and instruction of children in a child care and development program, and supervise a Child Development Associate Teacher, Assistant, and an Aide. The student must apply to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for a Child Development Permit at the Teacher level after completing the following 40 units and appropriate work experience:"
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HDEV 0002",
          "title": "Principles and Practices of Teaching Young Children",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HDEV 0004",
          "title": "Child, Family, and Community",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HDEV 0005",
          "title": "Introduction to Curriculum",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HDEV 0009",
          "title": "Child Growth and Development",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "12 HDEV/ECE elective units"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Work experience equaling 175 days of 3 plus hours per day within a 4-year period in a licensed child care facility"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "16 general education units from the following areas:"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "English/Language Arts"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Math or Science"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Social Sciences"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Humanity and/or Fine Arts"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "All course work must be completed with grades of “C” or better."
    }
  ]
}