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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Students will become familiar with developmental ages and stages of children from birth through adolescence. Students will be able to identify developmental stages within a variety of child development theories including Erickson, Freud, Piaget, Kohlberg and Maslow. Students will become familiar with developmental milestones and will be able to recognize activities that are developmentally appropriate for an infant, toddler, preschooler, and school age children. Students will be able to determine what developmental stage children are in according to the characteristics they exhibit. They will also become familiar with brain based research and how it relates to the early childhood classroom.
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5.00 Credits
Students will become familiar with different types of materials that can be used to implement lessons that incorporate the seven multiple intelligences and learning modalities. Students will develop activities that facilitate learning and social development. Students will observe classroom teachers in local child care facilities and will assist in developing and presenting lessons and activities for childhood classrooms. Students will also become familiar with a variety of discipline techniques and how they can be incorporated with various age groups. Focus will be given to positive and preventive discipline techniques as well as supportive and corrective discipline techniques. Students will learn how to set up classrooms and activities to prevent behavior problems.
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2.00 Credits
This course will assist students in learning how to incorporate parent involvement in the child care facility. Students will develop a parent bulletin board and newsletter. Students will also learn how to help parents become more active in his or her child's education through superstar programs, informative letters, and parent conferences. Students will learn various methods to communicate with parents and will create daily activity sheets to distribute to parents to inform them of what their child has done throughout the day. Students will also learn how to plan and successfully implement a parent workshop, open house, or children's program. Students will plan and assist in implementing a professional child care conference. They will also learn to use active listening when communicating with parents and how to prevent barriers and roadblocks in communication. This course will also help students understand the different roles that are placed on members of the family and how those roles interrelate with one another. The six characteristics of strong healthy families will also be studied.
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn how to develop policies and procedures pertaining to child care facilities based on Arkansas State Licensing Regulations. They will develop a parent handbook, personnel policies, job descriptions and teacher evaluations. Students will design a building blueprint and will create an op erating budget and a one-time start up budget. Students will also participate in simulated job interviews and will demonstrate questioning techniques that facilitate answers that provide insight into personalities and attitudes within the statutes of the law. Students will also become familiar with child care software and how to run programs that will monitor student attendance, emergency information and billing. Students will also learn how to use the Arkansas State Voucher Program.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a study of the history, theory, and practice of Early Childhood Education in context as well as supervised observation and experience in the Early Childhood field. This course requires four hours of observation in four separate early childhood settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the nature and development of children from prebirth to the middle years of childhood. It includes physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development.
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn basic strengths and weaknesses of each of the food groups as well as the functions of vitamins and minerals. Students will also become familiar with foods contained in the food pyramid and appropriate serving sizes for toddlers, preschoolers and school age children. Students will create cyclic menus based on the Special Nutrition Program. They will become proficient in calculating the amount of food required to serve specified numbers of children and in completing food reimbursement production worksheets. Students will be certified in the Special Nutrition Food Program.
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4.00 Credits
Students will become proficient and certified in CPR and first aid. Students will also become familiar with signs and symptoms of communicable illnesses that pertain to children. Students will become proficient in dealing with emergency situations. Upon completion of the CPR and first aid portion of the course, students will participate in a simulated trauma where they will be required to prioritize and treat injuries until emergency medical personnel arrive. Students will also become familiar with childhood immunizations and how to track them manually and on the computer. Students will also learn how to monitor children's normal growth patterns and how to identify and seek treatment for abnormalities. In the safety portion of the course, students will become familiar with basic classroom and playground safety issues and how to avoid problems. They will also learn how to inspect playgrounds and identify hazards on playgrounds. Students will design a developmentally appropriate playground and budget that complies with Arkansas Licensing Regulations. Students will also be able to demonstrate proper fire and emergency procedures and will develop evacuation plans that meet Arkansas State Regulations.
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5.00 Credits
Students will learn how to create a lesson plan based on right and left brain dominance, learning styles preferences, learning modalities, the seven multiple intelligences, and Bloom's Taxonomy. Students will integrate units weekly and create one lesson plan each week that coordinates with the thematic unit of study. Students will create and present a complete thematic unit with audio and visual aids to be used in the classroom. Students will plan weekly activities that are developmentally appropriate for toddlers, preschoolers and school age children. Students will become familiar with different math, science and oral language teaching strategies and how to incorporate these activities into daily lessons. Students will work directly with children to implement theory and skills learned in the classroom.
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3.00 Credits
Students will become familiar with the laws pertaining to disabled children in child care facilities and special accommodations that child care facilities are required to make according to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Students will also learn how to tailor classroom curriculum to meet the individual needs of each child. Students will become familiar with signs and symptoms of a variety of physical, mental and learning disabilities, their prognosis, treatment, educational implications and expected outcomes. Students will also compare and contrast the pros and cons of integrating special needs children into the regular classroom.
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