CDA 2.0 steps for a CDA Credential

As you are working on or after you have completed your CDA training with Day Care Consultant Services, Inc:

1. You should have purchased your CDA 2.0 Competency Standards Books. If not, do so immediately http://store.cdacouncil.org/cdaapplicationpackets.aspx
2. Hand out your Family Questionnaires (from the Competency Standards Books) and receive them back.
3. Reflect on the feedback from the Family Questionnaires and write your areas of Strength and Areas for Professional Growth in Boxes A and B on the Reflective Dialogue Worksheet.
4. Write six Reflective Statements of Competence, and gather all of the items for your Resource Collection and compile your portfolio as described.
4a. Georgia candidates: Apply for the scholarship (bottom center of our web site)
5. Select a Professional Development Specialist from the CDA Council website and confirm his/her availability.
6. Have your center/program director complete the Director’s Permission Statement as part of your application.
7. Submit your application and assessment fee (your certificate and transcript are part of these attachments but are not to be sent in with your application – they are for your reference and for examination by your PD Specialist).
8. After receiving a Ready to Schedule notification from the council, schedule your Verification visit from your Professional Development Specialist.
9. Your Professional Development Specialist will review your portfolio, certificate, and your Family Questionnaires.
10. Be observed in the classroom by your CDA Professional Development Specialist
11. Reflect with your Professional Development Specialist
12. With his/her permission, set up an appointment at a PearsonVue Testing Center for your final.

13. The assessment process is described at:
http://www.cdacouncil.org/the-cda-credential
You DO NOT send your portfolio, Family Questionnaires, or observation to the CDA Council. These will be evaluated by your CDA 2.0 Professional Development Specialist