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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
This is a field experience that Early Childhood P-3, Dual Certification Early Childhood Elementary and Dual Certification Early Childhood Special Education candidates take concurrently with ECE 350 Early Childhood Integrated Curriculum. This field experience involves observation, lesson planning and assessment. This field experience is designed to increase the teacher candidate's ability to glean information relevant to instruction directly from student work, to prepare lesson plans, to assess students' strengths, and to relate classroom practice to student outcomes.
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3.00 Credits
This course is part of the process of developing an early childhood professional who is a reflective practitioner in an urban environment. The focus of this course is on
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the nature of the contemporary family with young children and, on the performance level, helps the student to develop the skills needed to create positive working relationships. Diversity (cultural, racial, economic, religious, and family structure) is addressed throughout the course, as diversity is central to building constructive home/school relations. The ultimate goal is to help students promote partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children.
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2.00 Credits
This course is part of the process of developing a teacher candidate who is a reflective early childhood, early childhood elementary, or early childhood special education practitioner in an urban environment. Teacher candidates reflect upon what they learned in prior courses, field experiences and what they are experiencing in their internship. Planning, implementing, assessing, and managing the teaching/learning environment, including instructional methods and activities such as other alternative learning sites are examined. Communication and conference techniques, interpersonal and group relations, and techniques for working with parents and staff as an instructional team are considered and modeled in class. Teacher candidates are provided the opportunity to collaborate with other professionals. Through participation in seminar discussions, the attributes of reflective practitioners, who are skilled at facilitating the learning of children and concerned with professional ethics and values, are developed.
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1.00 Credits
This course addresses classroom management in settings that serve early childhood and early childhood /elementary settings. Using the Reflective Urban Practitioner Model, the course content covers establishing a positive social climate, designing appropriate physical environments, establishing classroom rules and routines, and discussing techniques for handling challenging behaviors. As candidates explore the elements of classroom management, they reflect on what they also learned about classroom management in their previous field experiences. A variety of reading materials, including texts, current articles and case studies, as well as videos, interactive CD-ROMs and websites, are used to promote small group and whole group discussion. Candidates complete a variety of in-class assignments, such as case analyses and role plays, as well as a follow-up assignment completed during their senior internship that asks them to reflect upon classroom management theory.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces basic economic concepts and institutions and their application in the American economy. The course focuses on economic decision-making processes of the consumer, business firms, and the government.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents an introduction to economic analysis and policy. Several current economic issues and problems such as energy pricing and availability, environment, quality, inflation, unemployment, and poverty are discussed. The course teaches the importance of modern economic theory.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an economic analysis of the U.S. health care sector. The demand for health and medical care, the delivery of medical services, and the economic aspects of selected health policy issues including National Health insurance, competition between medical care providers, medical cost inflation and public health programs are covered.
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3.00 Credits
A systematic study of the history of economic ideas from the pre-industrial era to the modern age is presented in this course. The intellectual and scientific contributions of the great economists are examined in the context of the prevailing social and economic institutions.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the theory and analysis of the determination of levels of national income and employment, fluctuations of income, monetary and fiscal policy, inflation and growth.
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