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Is anyone taking or has recently taken the CDA?
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Start your research with the 5 questions, first
1. Is it transferable for college credit?
2. Will it increase your pay?
3. Will it make you a better provider?
4. Is it required to do the job you already hold?
5. Is it offered by a for profit corporation paid out of your pocket?- Unless otherwise stated, all my posts are personal opinion and worth what you paid for them.
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i start mine this thursday night!!!
catherder asked really good questions!!
to be honest, i'm only doing it because my state is making me, and they offer a scholarship to pay for it.Comment
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Mine started to, paid for a very select few who finished really fast, then stopped the program....due to budget cuts.
After everyone shelled out the cash in advance...
The sad thing is it is still required, now, of all new applicants...
It put a few of folks, that I personally am friends with, out of business before they had a chance to start...
I was dissappointed, too, because I was one of the nerds actually looking forward to the online classes...
Our state only gave the scholarship AFTER completion AND getting the CDA seal of approval... about $1500 up front.- Unless otherwise stated, all my posts are personal opinion and worth what you paid for them.Comment
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My first class is 3/15 and I've already completed the first assignment. My center is under a quality rating scale program/mentorship-type thingy and they want all lead teachers and the director to have CDAs. I already have a Bachelor's degree in another field, but being that I have worked in my center for four years and been lead teacher for three, I figure I may as well get as "certified" as I can. I'm already MAT certified (medication administration).
In my opinion, the CDA lessons are stuff a teacher who has been doing this a few years oughta already know, or stuff that can be easily referenced if need...but that should make it easier to breeze through and be finished in maybe 6 months instead of 18
My problem is the money...you have to pay $35 per graded lesson and test. If I turn in 2 or 3 modules at a time, thats $70 - $105 per month-not an option. My job is willing to pay for one module a month, so I think I may match that and turn in at least 2...??Comment
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Hmmm, I'm just doing all the free classes I can right now. It's not required, but it's so helpful. I'm learning a lot and certainly don't mind it. I've paid for a class and took so much from it as well.Comment
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Mine started to, paid for a very select few who finished really fast, then stopped the program....due to budget cuts.
After everyone shelled out the cash in advance...
The sad thing is it is still required, now, of all new applicants...
It put a few of folks, that I personally am friends with, out of business before they had a chance to start...
I was dissappointed, too, because I was one of the nerds actually looking forward to the online classes...
Our state only gave the scholarship AFTER completion AND getting the CDA seal of approval... about $1500 up front.
our state only gives the scholarship after completion as well. however, as long as we show the organization (giving the class) the confrmation letter, showing that we will be awarded the scholarship, they wait until we actually get it to ask for the money. at least, that was my understanding, i cant get a straight answer out of anybody around here.
so we will see. fingers crossed, cause i dont have $1500 to shell out upfront.
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I originally did the CDA program as a Home Visit Specialist when I worked at Head Start but then when I started family childcare, I had to take it again since the components taught were different for a family childcare provider (I didn't think so but that is what they said). A few of us family childcare providers got the whole thing for free as a pilot program in our county geared toward giving family childcare providers more education and training. A perk is that the state child care assistance program pays me a higher rate than family childcare providers who do not have the CDA. The difference is 15% I think. So for some it is worth it, for others it isn't.
Now that I am in college finishing my Bachelor's degree, I was able to get credit for a lot of the CDA stuff and was allowed to transfer the CDA into credits and/or test out of a class getting full credit for it without actually having to take it.Comment
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