ED 5043 RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTALLY EFFECTIVE APPROACHES TO EARLY CHILDHOOD
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 with utilized research to support their planning and instruction. Candidates will complete 10 hours of fieldwork.