Professional Staff Qualifications

The professional teaching staff is responsible for cooperative teaching and child care; training and supervision of students; program planning and evaluation; administering of developmental assessments; keeping records on each child's progress; providing for contact and involvement with parents; working cooperatively with the school's faculty in the Human Development and Family Relations Department (HDFS) on course work and committees; coordinating research in each classroom; serving as a model/demonstration teacher of young children for the School of Family studies.

They serve the community and state as resource persons through active roles as consultants and presenters on issues in early childhood development and education.

Most CDL teachers have Masters Degrees in Child Development (or related field). Professionally they strive to keep abreast of current literature and developments in the area of child development.