- Professional Learning Community 1

Catalog description

Professional learning community courses facilitate the co-construction of candidate knowledge, skills, and dispositions as pre-service early childhood professionals. Candidates collaboratively work to make meaning of courses and field experiences in the current sequence within the plan of study. Using the NAEYC Code of Ethics and ISBE Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards, students will explore systems of oppression through the lens of critical pedagogy. PLC I will focus on orientation to the early childhood field, the early childhood program at Lewis. Candidates will develop an understanding of responsive infant/toddler practice as well as their role in planning and implementing curriculum and caregiving techniques.