| New course | Undergraduate |
| First term offered : Winter 2014 | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| ED 345 | Designing Early Childhood Environments (birth-4th grade) | 3 - |
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Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) DesigningECE |
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Catalog Description: This course will focus on investigating learning environments for young children from birth-4th grade in inclusive early childhood settings (Head Start, public and private pre-K, child care, K-4 classrooms, etc.) and how to plan for children of all abilities. Students will spend time in the field observing and documenting classroom environments in inclusive early childhood settings. |
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Course Goal and Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. list and explain the philosophical/theoretical backgrounds that lay the foundation for various learning environments in inclusive early childhood settings. 2. use developmental knowledge to explain and demonstrate how diversity and meeting the needs of all children can be integrated into a supportive relationship-based inclusive learning environment. 3. demonstrate a working knowledge of various assessments that measure quality of learning environments. 4. demonstrate knowledge and skills in designing, implementing, and evaluating a meaningful, challenging, and developmentally appropriate inclusive early childhood environment. 5. describe and analyze how culture, disability, language, and other factors may affect how family and staff interact and build relationships within a learning environment. 6. identify themselves with the early childhood profession and will exhibit the attributes of a collaborative educational leader including the acquisition of appropriate knowledge, skills, and dispositions. (See attached syllabus for more details) |
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Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This course is part of the revision of the Early Childhood teaching authorization and the proposed Early Childhood Studies major. |
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Faculty and facilities needed: This course will be taught by faculty and/or adjuncts who are specialists in the field. |
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Brief Course outline: (See attached syllabus) |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
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| 1 - Department | Cindy Ryan | Approved | November 12 2012 |
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Comments: No dept chair |
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| 2 - Division | Maria Dantas-Whitney | Approved | November 12 2012 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Maria Dantas-Whitney | Approved | November 12 2012 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Thaddeus Shannon | Approved | November 21 2012 |
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Keller Coker | Approved | January 30 2013 |
| 7 - Dean | Mark Girod | Approved | January 31 2013 |
| 8 - Provost | Kent Neely | Approved | February 01 2013 |
| ED 345 Course Syllabus.doc | Download |