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Career Pathways
No matter what your infant-toddler career pathway is, you’ll find resources organized by your role to build competency and your impact. On track for a Child Development Associate (CDA™) for yourself? Go to Teachers. Looking to strengthen your skills as an administrator, coach, trainer or consultant? Go to Administrators or Trainer/Coaches. Designing curriculum? Go to Professional Development (PD) System Leaders.
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Teachers
All Teachers - Child Care, Early Head Start, EHS-CC Partners, center or home-based -
Administrators
Directors, Education Coordinators, Instructional Leaders -
Trainers/Coaches
Trainers, Coaches, Consultants, Specialists, Technical Assistants who support teachers and programs to deliver quality infant-toddler services -
PD System Leaders
Higher Education, Curriculum Designers, Policymakers
Teaching Supports
Know! See ! Do! Improve! That’s our critical framework for those who are working to improve the competencies of infant-toddler teachers.
- Check out the coursework for the infant-toddler career pathway Browse Coursework
- If you’re developing courses to support infant-toddler teachers and others, use the course framework as a helpful guide Course Framework
- Find an open-source, digital teacher observation tool Online Digital Observation Tool
- Want access to video clips of infants, toddlers and their educators for use in training and coursework? Infant-Toddler Video Clips
If you would like to see more, take a look at all of our Teaching Supports
System Supports
Essential tools for leaders building all aspects of the infant-toddler career pathway including a Professional Development (PD) System Cost Analysis Tool and model articulation agreements for use in higher education.
PD System Cost Analysis ToolArticulation AgreementsFor additional tools, view all of our System Supports.