ECE 241 - Education of Preschoolers

1. Document the ability to articulate a personal definition of the role of the teacher and a professional philosophy with defined strategies and knowledge that optimally support and encourage children’s growth and development. [REASON]
2. Document the skills to plan a curriculum, environment and classroom program for preschool children that is based on professionally defined standards, research and theories of early learning. [REASON]
3. Demonstrate the ability to articulate how the teacher roles of observer, child development specialist, and reflective practitioner influence a teacher’s planning for preschool age children. [EXPLORE]
4. Document the ability to articulate and demonstrate contextual knowledge of how children learn based on theories of Erikson, Piaget and Vygotsky and Developmentally Appropriate Practices. [COMMUNICATE]
5. Document evidence of an ability to apply the central concepts and professionally defined standards for the curriculum content areas of literacy, mathematics, science and creative expression to planning for preschool age children. [COMMUNICATE]
6. Demonstrate effective teaching strategies that foster the learning of preschool age children through reciprocal relationships in teaching and learning, based on knowledge of children’s development, interests, construction of meaning, and play. [EXPLORE]