ECHS 2330 - Early Childhood Practicum

Credit Hours: 3.00

Objectives:

1. Participate in classroom routines, guiding children, and planning activities.
2. Communicate effectively with teaching staff.
3. Demonstrate the ability to communicate with all children.
4. Demonstrate the ability to communicate with families.
5. Demonstrate the ability to use prevention, redirection, logical consequences and problem solving appropriately in the classroom.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to plan and implement an inclusive and developmentally appropriate unit focused on children’s interests.

Objectives:

1. Collaborate with supervising teacher to develop a unit or study.
2. Develop a week long lesson plan based on an agreed upon study or unit.
3. Write unit goals for both content and skills.
4. Plan for all areas of learning, including art, blocks, dramatic play, language and literacy, math, physical skills, science, sensory, and social studies.
5. Plan and implement inclusive, developmentally appropriate large and small group activities that are skill specific and related to assessment objectives.
6. Use problem solving and questions to guide children to a new understanding.
7. Incorporate active learning principles in all areas of the curriculum.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to implement a child assessment.

Objectives:

1. Observe children objectively.
2. Write objective observation notes to document assessment.
3. Organize anecdotal notes and other documentation under appropriate domains.
4. Complete an assessment form using information obtained from observation notes and other documentation.
5. Write a summary of the child’s learning in each domain.
6. Use completed assessment to provide direction for curriculum development.
7. Evaluate the goals, benefits, and uses of assessment.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course students will be able to summarize health and safety routines for young children.

Objectives:

1. Outline safety risks and emergency preparedness procedures in the classroom setting.
2. Describe typical health management policies such as: food safety, communicable diseases, toileting, napping and staff well being.
3. Describe the teacher’s role in modeling good health, safety and nutrition habits.