Early Childhood Education, Technical Certificate

GENERAL EDUCATION CORE

• ENGL 111 - English Composition CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• IVYT 111 - Student Success CREDIT HOURS MIN: 1

PROFESSIONAL - TECHNICAL CORE

• ECED 100 - Introduction to Early Childhood Education 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 234 - Literacy in the EC Classroom CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3

STATEWIDE ELECTIVES

TOTAL CREDITS: 31

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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.
• Using developmental knowledge to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments.
• Know about and understand diverse family and community characteristics.
• Supporting and engaging 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.
• Use their own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curricula for each child.
• Demonstrate knowledge of major concepts and theoretical perspectives of social sciences.
• Demonstrate proficiency in reading, evaluating, analyzing, and using material collected from sources to write texts in appropriate formats while controlling tone, syntax, grammar, and spelling.