Child Development prepares students to work directly with young children. Graduates find jobs as teachers, assistant teachers, directors, assistant directors, curriculum coordinators, home visitors, nannies, family day home providers and owners of child care centers.<\/p>\n
If you are interested in becoming an elementary school teacher, ACC\u2019s\u00a0Education Instruction Department<\/a>\u00a0offers degree plans that allow you to transfer into four year colleges or universities. ACC\u2019s\u00a0Child Development AAS degree<\/a>\u00a0transfers to Texas State and University of Texas at San Antonio\u2019s BAAS Programs. Additional courses through an alternative certification program are required for eligibility for a teaching credential.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Texas Workforce Commission<\/a>\u00a0has identified the child care industry as the 11th fastest growing economic sector for 2004 -2010. The\u00a0Texas Labor Market Review<\/a> of June 2005\u00a0stated that child care workers are among the ten occupations with the most job openings from 2002- 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Child Development prepares students to work directly with young children. Graduates find jobs as teachers, assistant teachers, directors, assistant directors, curriculum coordinators, home visitors, nannies, family day home providers and owners of child care centers. If you are interested in becoming an elementary school teacher, ACC\u2019s\u00a0Education Instruction Department\u00a0offers degree plans that allow you to transfer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1297","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"layouts":false,"hero_content":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/childdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/childdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/childdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/childdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/childdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/childdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education.austincc.edu\/childdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}