ECE 208 - Early Childhood Field Practicum

1. Demonstrate competencies in applying principles of child development and current research to effective curriculum planning and implementation. [REASON]
2. Utilize a continuum of teaching strategies based on a professional knowledge-base that is adapted to developmental, individual, and cultural characteristics. [ACT]
3. Construct connections between what has been learned in completed courses and past experiences in active work with young children and families. [REASON]
4. Demonstrate the foundational teaching strategies of developmental principles: reciprocal learning, play as a leading activity of development, scaffolding, planning an environment and experiences in all developmental domains, encouraging learning through child-child and child-adult relationships. [COMMUNICATE]
5. Provide evidence of being a reflective thinker to guide planning of experiences and the environment, teaching roles, interactions, and decision making, based on children’s responses, ideas and interests. [REASON]
6. Demonstrate teaching practices in professionally defined content areas. [ACT]
7. Use the process of self-assessment to define: knowledge of themselves as individuals and developing teachers; knowledge of children and how they grow, develop and learn; role as teacher in ensuring inclusiveness and respect for children and families; and teaching skills and strategies practiced throughout the practicum experience. [REASON]