Head Start Accreditation Information

I work at a Head Start program. How are the upper level UHCL courses in the BAS aligned to the Head Start Sec. 648A Staff Qualifications and Development (42 U.S.C. 9843a)? What are the lower level equivalents of these courses?

1. Professional Requirements- The Secretary shall ensure that each Head Start classroom in a center-based program is assigned one teacher who has demonstrated competency to perform functions that include:
   1. Planning and implementing learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness of children for school by developing their literacy, phonemic, and print awareness, their literacy, phonemic, and print awareness, their understanding and use of language, their understanding and use of increasingly complex and varied vocabulary, their appreciation of books, their understanding of early math and early science, their problem solving abilities, and their approaches to learning.
      
      The following UHCL courses contain information related to (A):
      ECED 4031 Historic and Recent Trends (CDEC/TECA 1311)
      ECED 4033 Guidance and Classroom Management of Young Children (CDEC 1319)
      ECED 4035- Literacy Development Birth-Age 5
      ECED 4036 Assessment of Young Children Birth-Age 5
      ECED 4037 Mathematics and Science for Young Children Birth-Age 5
      ECED 4038 Creativity in Early Childhood
      ECED 4133 Developmental Theories of Young Children (CDEC/TECA 1354)
      ECED 4230 Play
      ECED 4231 Infants and Toddlers
      ECED 4232 Cultural Awareness for Young Children
      ECED 4233 Preschool Curriculum
      ECED 4737 Practicum I
      ECED 4738 Practicum II
      LLLS 4438 Selecting Literature for the Very Young Child
      SPED 4030 Survey of Exceptionalities (CDEC 1359)
      SPED 4332 Early Childhood Special Education
      SPED 4333 Advanced Early Childhood Special Education
      
      
   2. Establishing and maintaining a maintaining a safe, healthy learning environment
      The following UHCL courses contain information related to (B):
      ECED 4033 Child Guidance and Classroom Management (CDEC 1319)
      ECED 4034 Wellness and the Young Child (CDEC 1318)
      ECED 4231 Infants and Toddlers
      
      
   3. Supporting the social and emotional development of children
      The following UHCL courses contain information related to (C):
      ECED 4033 Child Guidance and Classroom (CDEC 1319)
      ECED 4230 Play
      ECED 4231 Infants and Toddlers
      ECED 4233 Preschool Curriculum
      ECED 4737 Practicum I
      ECED 4738 Practicum II
      SPED 4030 Survey of Exceptionalities (CDEC 1359)
      SPED 4332 Early Childhood Special Education
      SPED 4333 Advanced Early Childhood Special Education
      
      
   4. Encouraging the involvement of families of the children in a Head Start program and supporting the development of relationships between children and families
      The following UHCL courses contain information related to (D):
      ECED 4031 Historic and Recent Trends (CDEC/TECA 1311)
      ECED 4033 Child Guidance and Classroom Management (CDEC 1319)
      ECED 4034 Health, Safety and Nutrition (CDEC/TECA 1318)
      ECED 4039 Advocacy and Parent Engagement
      ECED 4230 Play
      ECED 4231 Infants and Toddlers
      ECED 4232 Cultural Awareness for Young Children
      ECED 4234 Early Childhood Leadership and Program Quality
      ECED 4335 Children, Family and Society (CDEC/TECA 1303)
      SPED 4030 Survey of Exceptionalities (CDEC 1359)