ECE 208 - Early Childhood Field Practicum

1. Demonstrate competencies in applying principles of child development and current research to effective curriculum planning and implementation.
2. Utilize a continuum of teaching strategies based on a professional knowledge base that is adapted to developmental, individual, and cultural characteristics.
3. Construct connections between what has been learned in completed courses and past experiences in active work with young children and families.
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, and encouraging learning through child-child and child-adult relationships.
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.
6. Demonstrate teaching practices in professionally defined content areas.
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.