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Students

We welcome Mount Saint Mary's University students to our center!  

We depend on the assistance of student employees, volunteers, student teachers, and practicum/internship students for the smooth running of our center.  Your help is valuable to us.  We hope your experience with us will be a positive one and add to your professional development. 

We hire responsible 每日大赛入口 students (all majors) who are interested in working with young children.  If you have work study and you enjoy interacting with young children, or want to do some volunteer hours to get work experience, the Child Development Center is the place for you. No experience necessary. Practicum/Internship opportunities are also available.

For more information or questions, please contact Wendy Galán, Program Director, via e-mail at wgalan@msmu.edu.

Appointments for observation

If you need to observe children for an assignment, please call the Center at 213.477.2977 to make an appointment with the Office Manager. When you call, you will be asked how long you need to observe and when you would like to schedule your appointment. Observations are done between 8:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. and between 3:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m. Children take a nap between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., no observations are scheduled during nap time.

Day-of requirements

On the day of your scheduled appointment, observers will need to check in at the front office and be ready to show their student I.D. and their immunization record which must include: TB Skin Test (no more than 2 years old), influenza (Flu), pertussis (DTap/TDap), and measles (MMR). Without proof of these immunizations, you will not be allowed to observe.

Observers must adhere to the following guidelines and dress code:

  1. Be on time for your scheduled observation.
  2. Dress appropriately.
  3. Have the least amount of personal belongings.
  4. Children will be less distracted by your presence if you sit or kneel than if you tower within their visual “landscape.”
  5. Be as unobtrusive as possible, “a fly on the wall.”
  6. Do not sit on furniture. be respectful.
  7. Do not become involved with the children’s activities, or you will have little opportunity to be an observer 
    if a child tries to talk to you, asks for help (of non emergency), or asks what you are doing, reply that you are doing your work, do not encourage further conversation. remove yourself briefly, if necessary, to lose a persistent child.
  8. try not to laugh, frown, or in any way react to either the child you are observing or the other children in the setting, or you may find that you are not only recording but influencing behavior.
  9. never talk about the children while you are observing.
  10. if other students are observing in the same room with you do not sit next to each other or have any type of discussion among yourselves until you have left the room.

Please dress appropriately and comfortable. You may wear jeans, but they should fit appropriately even when sitting on the floor or a low chair.

  • NO Flip-flops (beach sandals)
  • NO Slip-on shoes that have no back
  • Toes must be covered (protected)
  • NO Low cut tops-NO cleavage showing
  • NO Shirts that show the mid-riff area (no belly buttons showing)
  • NO Bare shoulders (no halter tops, spaghetti straps, tank tops, etc.)
  • NO Skirts
  • NO Short shorts (no shorter than 1 inch above the knee)
  • NO Pajamas
  • NO Transparent/see through clothing

We enforce this dress code for safety reasons and to ensure that we reflect our professionalism to children, families, and visitors.