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How do I Choose the Best Child Care School?

Tricia Christensen
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Updated: May 17, 2024
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Finding the best child care school, to attend in order to study childcare, will involve several factors. People should first decide what level of education they wish to pursue since this will narrow or widen options. Someone who wants to assist in a daycare or childcare center may have the most training potentialities, while a person who would like to get a credential in early childhood education could have fewer choices. Other factors that can inform choice of the best child care school include accreditation, price, location, and convenience of attending, and people may also want to think about school reputation.

As previously stated, it’s important to identify goals prior to enrolling at a child care school. If goals are modest, such as wanting to have a few classes for simple employment in a daycare, it still makes sense to attend a school that has transferable units. Should people want to study more in the future, the classes they take now ought to count toward future studies. One of the best ways to ensure this is to attend an accredited school; local junior or community colleges are excellent choices.

Those with loftier ambitions such as a bachelor’s degree or teaching credential need to make sure the child care school they attend is accredited too, and they will typically search for a private or public university that perhaps has a credential program. There are many of these in education or child care departments, and they are in diverse locations. Some schools even operate online. It bears mention repeatedly that accreditation is needed so that people’s degrees from off or online schools count and can be used to obtain any licenses required.

Price can be another factor for many people who would choose the best child care school. A school should be within the means, or within affordable range given student assistance. People who plan to finance their education via loans need to take a very good look at what they will make when they become employed and whether this amount will be enough to repay heavy loans. Counselors at financial aid offices can be particularly useful in estimating these amounts.

People have different ideas about their college or education experiences. Some want to leave home and move a distance away, and others want to stay nearby. Typically it is not cheaper to relocate to go to a child care school. On the other hand, if someone is relocating to a place they feel they’d like to eventually live, it can make sense.

Many people favor convenience over adventure and choose a good local school. They may look for those that have plenty of hours when classes are taught and flexible choice in classes so they can work or structure their education around other pursuits. Others are most interested in the curriculum of a school or its reputation. There are some very reputable or “top” child care school selections, but there are also excellent schools with full accreditation that are simply not as well known. Attending a school with a good or unknown reputation may or may not have an effect on career possibilities, and right to hold a license, or degrees and experience are often more influential in what jobs a person gets.

In the end, choosing a child care school is individualized. Each person will make a choice that seems right. Most important is making sure schools are accredited, that the education is appealing, and that the school offers needed degrees or programs. It is also wise to choose schools within an affordable cost range.

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Tricia Christensen
By Tricia Christensen
With a Literature degree from Sonoma State University and years of experience as a WiseGeek contributor, Tricia Christensen is based in Northern California and brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to her writing. Her wide-ranging interests include reading, writing, medicine, art, film, history, politics, ethics, and religion, all of which she incorporates into her informative articles. Tricia is currently working on her first novel.

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