Focus on Preschool Curriculum
Course #: ECHD 655
Description:
This online course is designed to prepare students to effectively implement child-centered curriculum in early childhood preschool classrooms. Students will acquire the knowledge, skills, and experiences to implement curriculum and assess children’s development using guiding principles and evidence-based instructional practices. Students will develop a child-centered pedagogy to support whole child development by simultaneously addressing social-emotional and academic skills and valuing cultural, linguistic, and developmental diversity. Students will learn to utilize high-quality, developmentally appropriate teaching strategies and will deepen their understanding of curriculum components, quality elements, and scope and sequence of the curriculum through standards-based lesson design and individual coaching sessions.
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