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Early Childhood Education

Make a Difference in Children’s Lives

CCC’s on-campus Early Learning Center provides preschool, afterschool and daycare services to diverse groups of children, aged 2-5. After you’ve spent time in the classroom studying how to create healthy, safe and stimulating learning environments, you can gain experience observing and working directly with them, there. And if you’d like experience working in other environments, we can set you up with an off-campus mentor, too.

If you want to get right to work or advance to a higher position, we have certificates of achievement for associate teachers and Montessori educators, as well as in violence intervention and counseling.

And if you want to transfer to a four-year university and become a teacher or other more highly trained professional, we’ve got you covered with associate’s degrees in early childhood and Montessori education.

Department Chair

Michell Naidoo
510.215.4132
mnaidoo@contracosta.edu
General Education Building, Room 109

Faculty, Early Learning Center Director

Brianne Ayala
510.215.4885
bayala@contracosta.edu
Early Learning Center

Hours

Monday – Friday 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

A majority of all four-year-olds in the US are now engaged in some sort of center-based or at-home formal education program.



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Brianne Ayala

Director

Early Learning Center

Michell Naidoo

Associate Professor

Early Childhood Education

May Ian Saeteurn

Program Coordinator

Early Childhood Education


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Some people, especially older adults that come back to school, think college is going to be awkward or uncomfortable, because they haven’t been to school in forever and a day. But you get there and everyone’s feeling comfortable. It’s a powerful, positive, empowering place.Jannika Wagner