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3.00 Credits
This course will consider developmentally appropriate practices in early chilhood care and education. It will include early care and education perspectives at several different levels, since early childhood covers the age range from newborn through age 8. Standards, criteria and guidelines developed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine how curriculum must be adapted to meet the diverse and changing needs of children and their families. It will address how teachers can create and maintain environments that are accessible both physically and developmentally to children with special needs. Students will examine activities, materials, equipment and toys to determine their age- and individual-appropriateness.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the importance of teachers encouraging and developing home-school relationships and identifying and utilizing community resources. The course will provide strategies for effective parent-teacher communication, for increasing parent involvement, and for educating parents.
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3.00 Credits
Artistic expression is basic to an individual's intellectual, aesthetic, and emotional development. This course will examine activities that foster creativity and expressiveness, will explore the Reggio Emilia philosophy of art as the major focus of the school experience, and will offer many strategies for sharing the arts of other cultures with children.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
For students in any program who wish to develop a project or investigate a problem through supervised research. Enrollment in appropriate area with consent of a full-time member of the faculty and approval by the Dean.
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3.00 Credits
The early childhood years, from birth to age 8, are the most important period for literacy development. Major emphasis is on the developmental nature of becoming literate, the concept of emergent literacy, the importance of quality reading and language arts experiences, and the vital relationship between reading and writing.
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3.00 Credits
This course will help the student conceptualize the teacher as decision maker - one who makes planning, implementing, evaluation and management decisions as part of the instructional role.
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3.00 Credits
Montessori education is child-centered and developmentally focused approach that has proven effective for children across cultural divisions and socioeconomic levels. Since its re- introduction into the United States ine the 1960's, there has been growing interest in this education approach as a way to meet the diverse needs of individual students while preparing all students for the challenges of life in an increasingly global society. This workshop will introduce students to the Montessori philosophy, namely to develop the child's physical, intellectual and spiritual potential to the fullest. The focus of the work- shop will be an overview of the principles of Montessori educa- tion: the prepared environment, the absorbent mind, sensitive periods in child development, practical life skills, sensory- motor education, building a peaceful community, the role of observation, mathematics, history and geography, science and Nature.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 Credits
No course description available.
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