Program Overview

Program Overview

The Early Childhood Education program offers a Certificate in ECED 1120, Guiding Young Children. This course explores various theories of child guidance and their practical applications, providing developmentally appropriate methods for guiding children and effective strategies for facilitating positive social interactions.

Course Details

• Credits: 3
• Course Description: The course provides strategies for preventing challenging behaviors through the use of environment, routines, and schedules. Emphasis is placed on helping children become self-responsible, competent, independent, and cooperative learners, including families as part of the guidance approach.
• Repeat Policy: The course may be repeated up to 3 credits.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity and the significance of socio-cultural and political contexts for development and learning.
• Recognize that children are best understood in the contexts of family, culture, and society.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the many functions that language serves in the cognitive, social, and emotional aspects of development in the formative years.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the relationship among emotions, behaviors, and communication skills to assist children in identifying and expressing their feelings in appropriate ways.
• Use appropriate guidance to support the development of self-regulatory capacities in young children.
• Recognize and respond to each child's physical health, intellectual and emotional well-being, and nutritional and safety needs.

Specific Competencies

• Demonstrate knowledge and skill in building positive, reciprocal relationships with families.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and respect for variations across cultures, in terms of family strengths, expectations, values, and child-rearing practices.
• Demonstrate the ability to incorporate the families' desires and goals for their children into classroom or intervention strategies.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills in developmentally appropriate guidance techniques and strategies that provide opportunities to assist children in developing positive thoughts and feelings about themselves and others through cooperative interaction with peers and adults.
• Demonstrate understanding of the influence of the physical setting, schedule, routines, and transitions on children and use these experiences to promote children's development and learning.
• Demonstrate knowledge of assessment techniques, interpretation of assessment information in the application of this knowledge.