Child Guidance Practices

Catalog description

This course will explore positive, effective guidance practices with children from infants through age eight in early childhood settings. Students will integrate knowledge of whole child development into strategies and methods, emphasizing healthy social-emotional development and well-being.  Major theoretical viewpoints will be considered and compared with personal and cultural beliefs concerning child guidance. Special emphasis will be placed on observing, documenting and analyzing adult and child behavior through a minimum of five observation hours.