Social and Emotional Foundations of Learning

Catalog description

This course addresses the foundations of learning in early childhood through social and emotional foundations as well as curriculum planning and assessment from a social and emotional perspective. Environmental influences on child mental health, including toxic stress and poverty, are explored, along with the role of the teacher in responding to child trauma. Guidance strategies founded on the democratic classroom and Pyramid Model are examined and applied. Anti-bias, social justice, and equity education in the birth-grade 3 setting are addressed. Prerequisite: ECE 216 ; EDS 318 or concurrent enrollment. Offered Spring.