Early Childhood Education Clinical Seminar

Catalog description

This course is a capstone course for all teacher candidates in the Early Childhood Education Program. The main goals of this course are to synthesize the pre-service components of the early childhood teacher education in inclusive settings and to facilitate the transition into the profession. For these goals candidates will have opportunities to reflect on their understanding of child development and to communicate and collaborate with family and community of both typical and atypical children, to plan curricula for all children, to assess and document diverse learners' performance and progress, and to understand professional development of teachers in inclusive settings. They will also develop a professional portfolio. This course should be taken with Clinical Practice in Early Childhood Education.