Early Childhood Education, AAS

GENERAL EDUCATION CORE

• ENGL 111 - English Composition CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• IVYT 111 - Student Success CREDIT HOURS MIN: 1
• MATH 123 - Quantitative Reasoning CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• XXXX XXX - Life/Physical Sciences  Elective CREDIT HOURS: 3 - 5

PROFESSIONAL - TECHNICAL CORE

• ECED 100 - Introduction to Early Childhood Education CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 101 - Health Safety and Nutrition CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 103 - Curriculum in the Early Childhood Classroom CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 120 - Child Growth and Development CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 130 - Developmentally Appropriate Guidance in a Cultural Context CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 204 - Families in Transition CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 210 - Early Childhood Administration CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 230 - The Exceptional Child CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 234 - Literacy in the EC Classroom CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 243 - Cognitive Curriculum CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• ECED 260 - Early Childhood Professional CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3 ^

STATEWIDE ELECTIVE

TOTAL CREDITS: 61

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^ Capstone Course

DEGREE OUTCOMES

• Know and understand young children’s characteristics and needs.
• Know and understand the multiple influences on development and learning.
• Use developmental knowledge to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments.
• Know about and understand diverse family and community characteristics.
• Support and engage families and communities through respectful, reciprocal relationships.
• Involve families and communities in their children’s development and learning.
• Understand the goals, benefits, and uses of assessment.
• Know about and use observation, documentation, and other appropriate assessment tools and approaches.
• Understand and practice responsible assessment to promote positive outcomes for each child.
• Know about assessment partnerships with families & other professional colleagues.
• Understand positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation of their work with children.
• Know and understand effective strategies and tools for early education.
• Use a broad repertoire of developmentally appropriate teaching/learning approaches.
• Reflect on their own practice to promote positive outcomes for each child.
• Understand content knowledge and resources in academic disciplines.
• Know and use the central concepts, inquiry tools, and structures of content areas or academic disciplines.
• Using their own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curricula for each child.
• Identify and involve oneself with the early childhood field.
• Know about and uphold ethical standards and other professional guidelines.
• Engaging in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice.
• Integrate knowledgeable, reflective, and critical perspectives on early education.
• Engaging in informed advocacy for children and the profession.
• Opportunities to observe and practice in at least two of the three early childhood age groups (birth-age 3, 3-5, 5-8).
• Opportunities to observe and practice in at least two of the three main types of early education settings (early school grades, childcare centers and homes, Head Start programs).
• Self-assessment and self-advocacy.
• Master and apply foundational concepts from general education.
• Written and verbal skills.
• Make connections between prior knowledge/experience and new learning.
• Identify and use professional resources.