ECCE 1101 Syllabus

Subject Code

ECCE

Course Number

1101

Course Title

Introduction to Early Childhood Care and Education

Prerequisites

Provisional admission

Corequisites

Terms Offered

Offered Fall

Credit Hours

(3-0-3)

Course Description

This course introduces concepts related to the responsibilities and procedures involved in a variety of early childhood care situations. Topics include historical perspectives; professionalism; guidance; developmentally appropriate practices; learning environments (including all children); cultural diversity; and licensing, accreditation, and credentialing.

A work ethic grade is assigned for this course. For more information see Work Ethics.

 

Course Outcomes

Historical Perspectives

  • Demonstrate familiarity with major contributors to the field of early childhood care and education, including theories of typical and atypical early childhood development.

Professionalism

  • Describe career opportunities.
  • Examine a variety of early childhood care and education settings.
  • Identify early childhood care and education professional organizations.
  • Identify positive qualities and needed dispositions of an early childhood professional.
  • Identify professional codes of ethical conduct.
  • Describe characteristics needed to communicate and work in a team environment.
  • Examine strategies to collaborate as a team member with professionals and families to solve problems and build support.
  • Identify necessary components of a professional resource file or portfolio.

Guidance

  • Identify individual and group guidance and problem-solving techniques which encourage and teach positive social skills and interaction among children, promote positive strategies for conflict resolution, and develop personal self-control, self-motivation, and proper self-esteem.

Developmentally Appropriate Practices

  • Identify different types of planning for developmentally and individually appropriate curricula and instructional practices based on knowledge of individual children, the family, the community, and curricular goals, and content.
  • Identify strategies for making transitions throughout the day.
  • Recognize the components of a lesson plan.
  • Explore the use of Early Learning Standards and GPS standards for planning developmentally appropriate lessons.
  • Develop a daily schedule.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of assessment strategies to document the development and learning of young children's cognitive, social-emotional, communication, motor, adaptive, and aesthetic development.
  • Explore current developmental and learning experiences and teaching strategies with a continuum for the next age/grade level.

Learning Environment

  • Identify components of a well-organized, developmentally appropriate learning environment.
  • Identify a safe physical, psychological, and healthy learning environment that promotes development and learning.

Cultural Diversity

  • Explain the importance of responding to cultural and learning diversity in the learning environment incorporating inclusive classroom.

Licensing and Accreditation

  • Identify licensing requirements of a child care center.
  • Identify sources for accrediting ECCE programs.