Child Development Center

Childcare, Preschool & Full-Day Kindergarten

The Widener Child Development Center (CDC) is a Keystone STAR 4 childcare facility that offers unique childcare, preschool, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten programs. Located on campus, our approach to learning—keeping with our Widener values—is about nurturing a child's intellectual, emotional, social, and physical development, as well as their individual creative skills.

With our staff of certified teachers, teacher assistants, future teacher candidates, and faculty members, we encourage learning through exploration and celebration of the arts.

Field Experience from Day One

The CDC offers you, our students, an opportunity for real-world internship experiences, regardless of your major. Students from our education, social work, physical therapy, nursing, and clinical psychology programs routinely participate in activities and work there.

As an education major and teacher candidate, in particular, you will start gaining field experience there as early as your freshman year. You will work alongside certified teachers and conduct classroom observations, lesson presentations, research, information sharing, and more.

Your experience at the CDC will prepare you for your future field placements and for your career as a teacher.

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