Qualifications to work in daycare?

Go to this link, sign up for my free report and I will send you a link to the qualifications for teaching preschool or daycare. In most states, you can be an aide with the qualifications that you describe here. Best wishes! We can use good people to work with pre-K children!

1. California – To be a teacher at a day care facility in California, you must be a minimum of eighteen years old, with a least twelve12 post secondary credits in early childhood education or child development and have a minimum if six months experience working with children. You could also hold a current and valid CDA and have six months of on the job training and/or work experience; or hold a Children’s Center Permit issued by the state of California for the Teacher Preparation and Licensing. 2. Texas – All staff members who work in the state of Texas must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or equivalent education. 3. New York – The person(s) in charge of the day care facility must have an associates degree, or higher degree, in early childhood education, child development, or another child-related area. If they do not have an associates degree, they may also have a CDA credential, in addition to two years experience related to caring for children, or high school diploma or equivalent and three years experience caring for children. Additionally, if caring for a group of children under the age of three years of age, the day care provider is required to have at least one year experience and/or training specifically in infant and toddler care. 4. Florida – Caregivers in charge of a group are required to be a minimum of 18 years old, and and must complete the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services approved introductory training course 5. Illinois – The day care provider is required to be at least 19 and have a high school diploma or equivalency certificate, in addition to at least 60 semester hours of credit from an accredited college or university, which must include at minimum of six semester hours in courses directly related to child care and/or child development. 6. Pennsylvania – The direct supervisor of a child care facility is required to be at least 18 years of age, as well as have a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in early childhood education, child development, special education, elementary education. 7. Ohio – The staff members are required to be at least 18 years old and have a high school education or GED, or to have completed a training program which was approved by the Department of Human Services. 8. Michigan – The maximum number of infants/toddlers per adult is two children younger than 18 months and four children if they are younger than 30 months. 9. Georgia – The primary teacher or lead caregiver must be at least 18 years of age and also have a high school diploma or GED and in addition must have at least one year experience. 10. North Carolina – Staff members must be at least 18 years of age or older. Hope this helped.

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Well sometimes they will train you while you work there and put you on a college course. You could get an NVQ 2 in Early Years Care and Education or something similar to be qualified, this is a one year course and most of it is practical that you do on the job. An NVQ 3 is a 2 year course with a lot more work involved so it would depend on what you wanted to do. At the end of that though you are a qualified Early Years Practitioner/Nursery Nurse. This is also the equivalent of a BTEC or Cache Diploma. To do any course of this type you do need to have a placement as you need to be observed working with children and are assessed on the work you do. I'm not sure what is required for an nvq 2, but for an nvq 3 it is at least 8 hours a week, plus approx 20 hours study time and a day at college.