Program Guide
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This free CCE Program Guide includes ideas, instructions and planning tips to help you launch, run, and maximize your CCE program throughout the year.
Child Care Experience™ Program
Child Care Experience™ Program (CCE) is an immersive childcare simulation that builds real-world caregiving skills for early childhood education careers. By combining lifelike infant simulators, intuitive software, and ready-to-use curriculum, CCE offers hands-on workplace preparation that mirrors the responsibilities of professional infant care. The included software tracks care quality, scenario responses, and student actions, allowing educators to tailor difficulty levels and generate detailed assessment reports for both individual and group learning.
During a simulation, students:
- Identify and respond to infant needs—such as feeding, changing, soothing, and addressing choking emergencies
- Accurately log care events in the Baby Care Journal
- Practice safe handling, multitasking with multiple infants, and reacting to realistic health and parent communication scenario
$4,999.00 – $13,749.00
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2-Baby Starter Package Includes:
4-Baby Package Includes:
8-Baby Package Includes:
Note: All packages come with a 2-year limited warranty and quick start guide
Curriculum
Lesson topics:
- Infant Feeding and Nutrition
- The Developmental Domains in Infancy (PIES)
- Lesson and Daily Schedule Planning
- Communication with Parents
- Entrepreneurship – Opening a Child Care Center
- Introduction to Emergency Infant CPR
- Infant Airway Obstruction
- The Child Care Experience
Teaching hours: 10+
Aligns to: National FCS Standards, Infant Toddler CDA Competency Standards, and Common Career Technical Core Standards
Features
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Offers the most realistic childcare simulation experience on the market
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Teaches transferable career skills in infant care to develop strong workforce development skills
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3-Month and 9-Month Child Care Experience Babies add meaning and accountability by using wireless programming to track and report caregiver behaviors
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Tracked care events include: Burp, Diaper, Rock, Fuss, Feed, and Choke
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Mishandling actions are tracked and provide feedback
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Students can work individually or in teams to care for multiple infants assigned to their care in a simulated childcare center
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Comes with everything needed to simulate a childcare environment (cribs, highchair, changing pad, and tummy time mat) and infant accessories (bottles, diapers, pacifiers, soothing blankets, outfits, CPR kits, choking objects, and solid food spoons)
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The curriculum integrates the use of the CCE Babies into multiple lessons to practice caregiving skills
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Built-in assessment provides an easy way for instructors to evaluate mastery of skills
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Students clock in to work their shift and log infant care into the Baby Care Journal, emulating this realistic skill
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Random scenarios are introduced to challenge students’ coping skills in infant health and parent communication
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The CCE Babies act as standalone training manikins for infant CPR and airway obstruction
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Proprietary software makes programming the simulation experience customizable to the difficulty level and experience desired for each simulation
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Enrichment activities and four sets of scenario cards are included to make classroom management easier while students rotate through the simulation
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Cheeks light up when the infants need care so students with hearing impairments or in noisy rooms can identify which infants need care
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Babies come in multiple skin tones, representing a diverse population
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For diaper change events, the infant must be on the changing pad buckled in
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Students are required to log in and specify that they washed their hands after changing a diaper before picking up the infant again to reinforce that they take the time in real life to think through that extra step in the process
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Created by observing real infant care schedules in daycare centers
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CCE Babies offer feedback so students know care events were performed correctly, like cooing after a fussy event or making eating sounds during a feeding event
- Aids in scaffolding learning by allowing students to work their way up from a 1:1 student to simulator ratio to a 1:4 ratio
- Standards-Aligned: Download our guide to see how our Child Care Experience™ Program and its curriculum support key objectives of the National FCS Standard 4.0 for Education and Early Childhood
FAQs
General
How to Use CCE in Your Classroom
Technology
Resources
Child Care Experience Implementation Guide
Blog – Students Gain Real-World Experience by Piloting New Child Care Simulation Program
Blog – How Educators Approach Child Care Experience Program Implementation
Blog- Transforming Childcare Training with the Child Care Experience Curriculum
Webinar – Using the Child Care Experience Curriculum to Bring New Energy to Your Childcare Pathway
Specifications
3-Month CCE Baby Size: 22.5″ long, 3.85 lbs.
9-Month CCE Baby Size: 25″ long, 6.05 lbs.
Crib: 33″ x 15″ x 9.5″ (expanded), 2 lbs.
Highchair: 26″ x 22.5″ x 30″, 10.2 lbs.
Changing pad: 32″ x 16″ x 4″, 1.70 lbs.
Tummy time mat: 30″ x 36″, 0.35 lbs.
Storage case: 23″ x 30″ x 10″, 15.8 lbs.
Storage bags (each): 30″ x 18″ x 10″, 0.7 lbs.
App Store:
- No play store or app store connection is necessary
- Smart device comes preloaded with CCE software
3 reviews for Child Care Experience™ Program
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Rae Ann Leonhardt –
I remember distinctly being in childcare and my first time being alone with four babies and all four needing something right at the same time. The CCE program gives my students a look at that work – they get to decide what’s going on when the baby cries, how to handle four babies that are crying at one time.
Letha H., FCS Teacher –
I don’t think students really realize how much of a responsibility this field is until they have a little taste of that experience, and I think the CCE program really gave it to them… I even had one student, who used the program this past semester, tell me she thinks this is something she wants to do – she wants to be a preschool teacher. That’s huge because these careers are in dire need of people who want to invest in the lives of children and so if they get a little taste of that, that’s my goal as a teacher.
Kelly Y., FCS Student Teacher –
With my college level class, they all got very anxious as many had not worked with children this small so they did not know what to expect. When all the babies started to cry at once, they became overwhelmed (even when there was 2 people to each baby). I feel this is important because it allows students to have hands-on experience, even if they are too young to work in a childcare setting at the time. This also allows for students to be introduced to the various situations that are often in a childcare setting.