ED 3076 EARLY CHILDHOOD METHODS AND DEVELOPMENTALLY EFFECTIVE APPROACHES
Candidates will learn that teaching and learning with young children is a complex enterprise. Candidates will explore and utilize a variety of valid and researched-based curriculums, to determine effectiveness and develop instructional strategies. Candidates will learn to plan instruction incorporating the use of sensorimotor activities, play, naturalistic language interventions, and social development. Instruction will be planned to foster learning by toddlers and preschool children whether they use spoken language or alternative and augmentative communication (AAC). Candidates will identify and analyze a variety of methods of maintaining frequent and outcomes-based communication with children’s parents. Candidates will complete 10 hours of fieldwork.
Prerequisite
A minimum of grade of C+ in
ED 2030