EDUC341N - Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Education

3 Credit(s)

Non Liberal Arts
This course is as the second course in the Early Childhood Program sequence leading towards certification in Early Childhood Education (Birth-2nd Grade). The course expands on the basic knowledge, skills and attitudes of early childhood education with a greater focus on intentional teaching and effective instruction. It provides teacher candidates with an understanding of culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate settings providing care and services to infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families. Candidates will explore, plan, and implement developmentally appropriate activities specific to these settings with diverse preschool populations. Topics covered will include: assessing quality programs and differing philosophies, early childhood language development and learning theory as it pertains to developmentally appropriate teaching practices, caring for preschoolers, and the role of the teacher and student in preschool settings. The focus of this course is to prepare teacher candidates to work with the Birth through Preschool population. 15 hours of fieldwork is required.

Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101L, EDUC 150N, EDUC 340N