ECE 125 - Early Childhood Ed Activities

Offered WI
Lecture- 3
3 credit hrs/3 contact hrs
A focus on the principles and patterns of developmentally appropriate practices for classroom instruction and setup for infants through eight-year-old children. The classroom environment, the effects of developmental domains on a child’s learning, the expectations of each developmental stage, how teaching methodologies can encourage developmental growth, and a hands-on approach to current age-appropriate practices will also be addressed.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Illustrate how children develop and learn in domains of social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development.
Use assessment tools to track children’s development.
Categorize and model an understanding of the learning environment and the structure of the classroom essential for teachers to teach and children to learn.
Demonstrate knowledge of what children learn in six content areas including literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology through national and state standards.
Employ the concepts of open-ended questioning, open-ended materials, free play, floor-time, environmental control, child initiative, and multiple intelligences.
Demonstrate an understanding of how to alter an indoor and outdoor environment to meet the unique needs of an individual child.