Infant and Toddler Programming

Catalog description

PREREQUISITES: ECED 110 Infant/Toddler Growth and Development or ECED 120 Child Growth and Development CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Studies the program planning and operation for quality infant and toddler care and education. The students examine the teachers role in establishing positive and productive relationships with families. Exploration of essential skills and dispositions in managing an effective program are considered. The students will investigate appropriate instructional strategies to enhance infant/toddler development. Students will develop activities to promote physical, cognitive, social and emotional, and linguistic domains, including bilingual/multilingual development of the young child, 0-36 months. Students may be required to meet personnel requirements for child care licensing which may include, but are not limited to: FBI fingerprints, 5 panel drug screen, TB test, physical/vaccination history, criminal history checks, CPS registry checks, reference checks, and completion of the state licensing training modules- Health and Safety Modules 1-4, Intro to the Indiana Early Learning Standards, and Child Abuse Prevention and Detection. This course may require 12 hours of observation by video or in person, aligned to the Course Learning Objectives, with children ages 2-36 months.