P-5 Rotation & Seminar 3: Students as Learners

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Prerequisites: ECE 341, EDB 400, ETE 343, EDB 241, EDB 242, ETE 243. Co-requisites: EDB 302, ETE 353. Must be admitted into the Early Childhood program and have successfully completed Rotations 1 and 2. This course will address the individualization, differentiation and personalization of early childhood education, based on current research and theories from developmental psychology and educational psychology. The course is designed to help students understand and respect the diversity of learners, and to learn how to responsively differentiate education for all areas of development (emotional, social, motivational, cognitive, physical, and moral) and for all types of diversity (cultural, linguistic, varying abilities, and disabilities and exceptionalities). Students will spend 60 lecture hours and 50 hours in a PreK-Kindergarten educational setting. Essential knowledge and skills from previous courses and from Rotations 1 and 2 will be revisited and interns’ understanding and application of previously introduced content will be enhanced and deepened.