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CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, INC.
(formerly Builders for the Family and Youth, Inc.)

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• Organization description

• Source of official student records

• Titles of all evaluated learning experiences

Catholic Charities and its affiliates seek to create a community of caring among staff in all programs in order to alleviate human misery and promote a social order which enhances human development.

The Caritas Training Center for Early Child Care and Education focuses on the Montessori Approach in offering a two-year integrated curriculum of child development concepts and their practical application in the Infant-6 classrooms. Through a wide variety of activities and experiences, students cover practical life and sensorial education, mathematical qualitative thinking, language and literacy emergence, concepts and skills of science, social studies, art, music, and movement. Dr. Maria Montessori's method and philosophy of child development are compared with the findings of modern brain research and with the ideas of other Early Childhood theorists. Trainees develop knowledge and experience in the Montessori Approach which, far beyond the supervised internship, enriches classroom management, enhances lives, and aids in the development of effective problem-solving skills in themselves and their students.

Source of official student records: Director, Caritas Training Center for Early Child Care and Education, Catholic Charities, 191 Joralemon Street, 13th Floor, Brooklyn, NY  11201.

Titles of all evaluated learning experiences

Listed below are the titles of all evaluated learning experiences for this organization, grouped under three headings. Information on the college credit recommendation established for individual learning experiences in each of the three areas can be accessed through the links below:

Teacher Training Program
Optional Courses
Retired Credit Recommendations - Teacher Training Program

TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM
Child Development - Birth Through Middle
Classroom Management
Cultural Subjects: Science, Geography, History, Music, Art
Family and Community
Math and Language: Materials and Methods for the Pre-School Montessori Classroom
Practical Life/Sensorial Materials
Principles and Practices of Montessori Education
Supervised Practicum/Field Experience

OPTIONAL COURSES
Maria Montessori: Topics and Readings Related to Her Life and Work
Thematic Approach to Curriculum Development in Early Childhood
Theories of Childhood: Dewey, Montessori, Piaget, Erikson, and Vygotsky

RETIRED CREDIT RECOMMENDATIONS – TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM
Classroom Management (retired)
Early Childhood Curriculum OR Principles and Practices of Montessori Education
Early Childhood Development - Birth Through Age 5
Supervised Practicum/Field Experience (retired)

Descriptions and credit recommendations

For complete descriptions and credit recommendations, follow the links above.

Updated 2/9/09

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