In this course students will learn how to plan, design, and present activities for areas of the early childhood curriculum such as art, music, movement, circle times, pre- math, language, physical knowledge, emergent literacy, and cultural diversity. Approaches for setting-up classrooms, developing antibias materials, managing and supervising groups of children are also included. This course provides information about how to understand, recognize and work successfully with children of different temperamental traits in group care and classroom settings. This course is designed to explore violence in America and its impact on the physical and psychological well-being of children and families, as well as on early childhood teachers who experience it in their lives. The course will explore issues of diversity related to the impact of violence on young children in the home or in the community and will stress the importance of teaching children alternatives to violence.
Students receive credit for only one course.
This course provides information about the emergent literacy curriculum. Please see Distance Learning page. ECE 209 2.0 units Cultural Diversity in the Early Childhood Curriculum Students will learn how to develop an early childhood curriculum which emphasizes cultural diversity. Samples of activities appropriate for a culturally diverse curriculum are provided. This course offers approaches, techniques and materials to use in caring for infants and toddlers in a program setting.