45 hour School Age Course (2023)

Enrolment on payment

This course provides the skills necessary to work in school-age child care programs. Topics include curriculum planning, age-appropriate materials and methods for working with children ages 6-13. This certification course satisfies the curriculum half of the MSDE requirement of 90 hours of child care training for teachers, directors, and coordinators working with school-age children. You must successfully complete all course requirements to receive a certificate. Aligns with MD Staff Credential levels 2-4. You must successfully complete all course requirements to receive a certificate. (The required textbook for this course is, “Great Afternoon Programs and Spaces That Wow!”, by Linda J. Armstrong and Christine A. Schmidt – 1st Edition 2013. It is available from Amazon.com, RedLeafPress.org and AbesBooks.com. Purchase the book before starting the course. Register and start now. The cost of this course is $275.

45 hour School Age Course (07/23/2022)

This course provides the skills necessary to work in school-age child care programs. Topics include curriculum planning, age-appropriate materials and methods for working with children ages 6-13. This certification course satisfies the curriculum half of the MSDE requirement of 90 hours of child care training for teachers, directors, and coordinators working with school-age children. You must successfully complete all course requirements to receive a certificate. Aligns with MD Staff Credential levels 2-4. You must successfully complete all course requirements to receive a certificate. (The required textbook for this course is, “Great Afternoon Programs and Spaces That Wow!”, by Linda J. Armstrong and Christine A. Schmidt – 1st Edition 2013. It is available from Amazon.com, RedLeafPress.org and AbesBooks.com. Purchase the book before starting the course. The video orientation and group discussions will be held on Saturdays at 8:45 am. The dates are Jul. 23, Aug. 13, Sep. 10, Sep. 17.
The cost of this course is $200.

45 hour School Age Course (01/22/2022)

This course provides the skills necessary to work in school-age child care programs. Topics include curriculum planning, age-appropriate materials and methods for working with children ages 6-13. This certification course satisfies the curriculum half of the MSDE requirement of 90 hours of child care training for teachers, directors, and coordinators working with school-age children. You must successfully complete all course requirements to receive a certificate. Aligns with MD Staff Credential levels 2-4. You must successfully complete all course requirements to receive a certificate.

(The required textbook for this course is, “Great Afternoon Programs and Spaces That Wow!”, by Linda J. Armstrong and Christine A. Schmidt – 1st Edition 2013. It is available from Amazon.com, RedLeafPress.org and AbesBooks.com. Purchase the book before starting the course.)

The video orientation and group discussions will be held on Saturdays at 8:45am. The dates are 01/22, 02/05, 02/26 and 03/12 from 9am to 11am.

The cost of this course is $249.