Education of the Young Child. Content includes observational activities, actual and simulated, individual and group. Students will observe, record, and analyze children's physical-motor, social, emotional, moral and cognitive development using developmental theory. The Child and the Community. Emphasis on program components, the evaluation and development of materials and practices for care and education.
Students spend three half-days per week in placement.
Learning and Development. Specific attention to the affective, cognitive and psychomotor domains and theories as seen in a multicultural context. Planned sequence of experiences in the student's area of specialization conducted in an approved setting under the supervision and coordination of a university supervisor and a cooperating teacher. Student must demonstrate the competencies identified for the B-K teaching field. The Family and the Community.