Program Overview

Empowered Parenting: Preschooler Development and Support, Certificate of Completion

The LWTech Parenting Education program supports caregivers of young children (birth to 5 years) by offering opportunities to strengthen parenting skills in a collaborative preschool lab setting and through dedicated parenting education classes. Participants engage in parenting skills development through toddler groups and cooperative preschool settings, where caregivers attend alongside their children.

This program emphasizes parenting theory and best practices, hands-on learning through developmentally appropriate, play-based activities, with a focus on the caregiver’s vital role in their child’s growth and development.

Empowered Parenting: Preschooler Development and Support certificate of completion graduates will:

• implement healthy and safe practices that foster a supportive and engaging learning environment for young children
• identify and understand resources to support families and strengthen community connections
• use strategies for engaging with children and caregivers using a culturally responsive, anti-bias approach to foster social-emotional competence
• explain developmental milestones in relation to cognitive, social-emotional, and fine and gross motor skills, and their impact on school readiness

Program Requirements

To complete this certificate, students will take 12 credits from the following course sequences:

• PAED 131 Parenting Your Three-Year-Old I 2 credits
• PAED 132 Parenting Your Three-Year-Old II 2 credits
• PAED 133 Parenting Your Three-Year-Old III 2 credits
• PAED 141 Parenting Your Four-Year-Old I 2 credits
• PAED 142 Parenting Your Four-Year-Old II 2 credits
• PAED 143 Parenting Your Four-Year-Old III 2 credits
• PAED 151 Parenting Your Five-Year-Old I 2 credits
• PAED 152 Parenting Your Five-Year-Old II 2 credits
• PAED 153 Parenting Your Five-Year-Old III 2 credits
• PAED 161 Parenting Children 0-5 Years Old I 2 credits
• PAED 162 Parenting Children 0-5 Years Old II 2 credits
• PAED 163 Parenting Children 0-5 Years Old III 2 credits

Total Program Credits: 12