The B.A. in Early Childhood Education (Birth through Grade 3) provides you with the comprehensive knowledge, groundwork, skills, and dispositions needed for working with infants, toddlers, and young children from birth through age eight (or the third grade). The program prepares you for licensure to become an early childhood education teacher. This program leads to initial licensure in early childhood education, K-3, PK-3, etc., and includes  supervised practice teaching in an actual classroom setting depending on state licensure options.Spanning from birth to age eight, this early childhood education program is appropriate for teaching candidates who can devote 20 or more hours per week to their studies, need a bachelor's degree, and want to become a certified early childhood education teacher.