Curric, Instr & Assesss: Engaging the Young Child

Catalog description

Designed to prepare teacher candidates in the general areas of curriculum,instruction, and assessment for the youngest learners (i.e., infancy-kindergarten). The course will focus on curricular philosophy and theory, approaches to early childhood education, pedagogical content knowledge, child development, and assessment of young learners. Current research, practice, and trends in early childhood education will be considered. Co-requisite for this course is ECPK 421: Language Development and Emergent Literacy. This is a six credit course with a field experience embedded into the course.