Pre-Kindergarten Education with an Emphasis on Family, Professional, and Community Collaboration

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This course addresses principles/practices of planning, teaching, and evaluating pre-kindergarten programs. This course emphasizes how early childhood curriculum is formed through influential theories, historical perspectives, and evidence-based practice. There is an emphasis on the value of play, living-learning experiences, and diverse perspectives in the early childhood curriculum models as well as how one's beliefs affect pedagogy and students. In addition, this course provides students with a family-centered framework, an understanding of collective diversity, and strategies for fostering collaborative partnerships among individuals with disabilities, families, professionals, and community stakeholders. Teaching strategies: readings, lectures, guest speakers, discussion, interviews, tests, and group activities. Prerequisites: Minimum 30 hours completed.