ECE Early Childhood Education



ECE-564 Observing and Guiding Children: Early Childhood Classrooms (3 cr.)
Fall and Spring
Essential elements in guiding children in early childhood classrooms. Positive guidance strategies, introduction to early childhood classroom management, effects of guidance on children's social and emotional development, developing an eclectic approach. Power, process, ethics, methods of observing, documenting children's behavior, progress, development. Observation and participation in early childhood classrooms required.

ECE-613 Lang Arts/Reading I: Birth-Kindergarten (3 cr.)
Fall, Spring and Summer
Developmentally appropriate strategies and materials for planning, implementing, and evaluating language arts. Emphasis on developing emergent literacy skills and language arts with children Birth through Kindergarten.

ECE-621 Administration of Early Childhood Programs (2 cr.)
Fall
A study of program organization, program design, staffing, licensing, certification, equipment and facilities for operating early childhood education programs. Field trips required.

ECE-626 Advanced Classroom Management and Guidance (3 cr.)
Fall and Spring
Advanced study of managing early childhood classrooms. Management of the physical environment, instructional context, including large and small groups, and social context. Building a classroom community and encouraging collaborative learning. Assessing management of early childhood classrooms. Analysis of classroom management programs. Observation/participation in early childhood classrooms required. Prerequisites: take ECE-564.

ECE-627 Child Abuse and Neglect (2 cr.)
Fall
Systemic nature, forms and indicators, and prevention of abuse/neglect. Factors contributing to, and intervention skills in, coping with the effects of abuse/neglect on children and families at risk.

ECE-635 Children, Families, Schools and Communities (3 cr.)
Fall, Spring and Summer
Building family, school, and community partnerships to support children's wellbeing and educational success. Theories and processes used to establish positive home-school-community relations.

ECE-664 Special Topics in Early Childhood Curriculum (1-3 cr.)
Philosophy and methodology of early childhood education: problems confronting teachers. R

ECE-766 Trends in Early Childhood Education (3 cr.)
Overview of trends in early childhood education with emphasis on problems confronting teachers in establishing early childhood programs in communities and schools.