Description:  Writing competency statements enables Early Childhood professionals to illustrate understanding of fundamental skills necessary to create high quality care and education for infants and toddlers.

Directions:  For the Florida Child Care Professional Credential (FCCPC) write a competency statement for:

Competency Goal 4: Development of educational programs that improve motor, language, and cognitive development of children, including literacy development.

Write a 500-word statement that addresses how you meet this goal for young infants, mobile infants, and toddlers. Make sure that you address each area for each age group:  motor, language, cognitive and literacy development.

First, introduce the importance of educational programs that improve motor, language, and cognitive development of children, including literacy development. 

Second, describe objectives to create this type of program.

Third, describe activities you implement to improve motor, language, and cognitive development of children, including literacy development.