ECE 470 - Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Action

4 credits
Grounded in developmentally appropriate practices in early learning, this course provides students with the opportunity to envision and implement a caring community of learners. Students develop deep understandings of the interrelated characteristics that make up an effective learning community. These characteristics include positive and nurturing relationships within the context of responsive, joyful and safe environments; a developmentally appropriate curriculum framework based on whole-child development, child-centered, hands-on, and play-based learning, support for healthy development of the children in the group and positive guidance practices. Teachers use reflective practice to better understand themselves and to look in-depth at the diverse ways of knowing by children. Prerequisite(s): restricted to ECD majors and minors. Junior standing or above or instructor permission.
Graded (A-F) only.