Course Syllabus

HFST 1600 Child Care As A Business

Course Description

This course surveys the many challenges and rewards of owning and managing a childcare facility. The course specifically addresses trends in childcare, setting up a childcare business, legal issues, and staffing. This course demonstrates how managers of childcare programs must understand the value of various family cultures, as well as the relationships between family, program, and community. This course is a critical class to assist potential childcare providers in starting and/or administrating successful child care businesses.

Justification

HFST 1600 is a required course in the Associate of Applied Science Degree in Child Care Management. Similar courses in content and purpose are taught at other colleges and universities. HFST 1600 transfers as an elective to other Utah Universities.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. A vital component of this class is to learn the organization of a written prototype day care facility. This will allow them to model a daycare that they will utilize when they begin their own business.
2. Include a hob description that includes key employee expectations, demands, and skills of the day care manager and the day care's employees.
3. Create an annual budget that includes expected annual revenue, expected annual expenses and categories assigned to these budgeting areas.
4. Identify management strengths, management weakness, and strategic methods for strengthening management skills
5. General knowledge of management in the early childhood field is vital for the successful completion of this course. Students that plan on running a daycare should be able to understand and accommodate for all types of children and their required needs.

Course Content

This course develops an understanding and ability to care for students of all backgrounds. Issues include different management styles that work for different students. Scaffolding and structured learning are vital both in the education of this course and for the development of children that attend students' daycare. Below is a list of the topics that will be utilized in this course to prepare students for the diverse care that is required to run a successful daycare.This course will include practice and/or study of the following child care related topics:• Managing Children’s Centers in the 21st Century• Types of Child Development Programs• Applying Theories in Managing a Child Development Center• Reflective Management: Personal and Professional Self-Awareness• Organizational Management• Fiscal Management• Personnel Management• Human Relations• Facilities Management• Managing Health and Safety Issues• Managing Food Service• Educational Programming• Family Engagement• Marketing and Public Relations• Assessment and Evaluation