Department: Teaching and Learning
Description: This course addresses principles/practices of planning, teaching, and evaluating pre-kindergarten programs. This course emphasizes how early childhood curriculum is formed through influential theories, historical perspectives, and evidence-based practice. There is an emphasis on the value of play, living-learning experiences, and diverse perspectives in the early childhood curriculum models as well as how one's beliefs affect pedagogy and students. In addition, this course provides students with a family-centered framework, an understanding of collective diversity, and strategies for fostering collaborative partnerships among individuals with disabilities, families, professionals, and community stakeholders. Teaching strategies: readings, lectures, guest speakers, discussion, interviews, tests, and group activities.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: Minimum 30 hours completed
Dates: 01/12/2026 - 05/02/2026
Location: Williams Hall 308 (WIH 308)
Instructor: To be announced
Course Specification: Majors Only
Class Notes: Course Note: This course is for students in the ECE minor only.
Textbooks have not been finalized for section.