Early Childhood Development
Course Content from McGraw-HillEarly Childhood Development is a course designed to introduce learners to the field of Educational Psychology and the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Teachers must master a variety of perspectives and strategies so they can remain flexible in their application of their teaching, and this course is intended to provide an overview. This course will investigate what development is and how the biological, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that humans undergo begins at conception and continues through their life spans. Learners will engage in activities aimed at helping them understand the different learning theories and theorists, as well as how those theories inform developmentally appropriate teaching and learning practices. Social and emotional development as well as behavioral and cognitive theories will set the foundation from which learners can develop their own understanding of how young children learn and the types of teaching practices that help to support the learning and behavior for future students.
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Similarly, social constructivist approaches and information processing theories will be presented so learners can investigate how attention, memory, and approaches to social groupings can shape the way students engage in the content presented in early childhood classrooms. Learners will also be able to examine how early childhood development plays a role in teaching different content areas. Finally, the role of technology and motivation will be explored. Learners will be able to discern how to integrate their knowledge of the ways students engage with content to help them plan for their future classrooms and to engage their own students in meaningful ways that will help the students learn, grow and create learning pathways to become successful classroom participants.
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After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the development of the brain and compare the cognitive developmental theories and identify the key features of language and the typical growth of the child’s language.
- Describe socioemotional development and discuss how the social contexts of families, peers, and schools are linked with young children’s socioemotional development.
- Define learning, and compare classical conditioning and operant conditioning and apply behavior analysis to early childhood education.
- Characterize attention and summarize how it changes during development, and discuss memory in terms of encoding, storage, and retrieval.
- Explain the social constructivist approach and how teachers and peers can jointly contribute to young children’s learning through the structuring of small-group work.
- Explain how reading and writing develops and discuss some useful approaches to teaching reading and writing, and characterize how mathematical thinking develops and identify some issues related to teaching mathematics to young children.
- Identify important forms of teacher-centered instruction with the important forms of learner-centered instruction and summarize how to effectively use technology to help children learn.
- Discuss the important processes in motivation to achieve, and explain how relationships and sociocultural contexts can support or undercut motivation.
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Subtopics |
Objectives |
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Child Development |
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2 |
Cognition - Part 1 |
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3 |
Midterm Exam |
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4 |
Cognition - Part 2 |
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5 |
Teaching and Learning |
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Final Exam |
There are no prerequisites to take Early Childhood Development.
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Your score provides a percentage score and a letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher. There are a total of 1,000 points in the course.
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Topic |
Assignment |
Points |
LO Alignment |
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0 |
Statement of Academic Honesty and Integrity |
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1 |
Reflective Response: Overview of Child Development |
10 |
1 |
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1 |
Forecasting Your Future Teaching Career |
85 |
1 |
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1 |
Quiz #1 |
50 |
1 |
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1 |
Reflective Response: Contemporary Theories |
10 |
2 |
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1 |
Quiz #2 |
50 |
2 |
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1 |
Reflective Response: What is Learning? |
10 |
3 |
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1 |
Quiz #3 |
50 |
3 |
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2 |
Reflective Response: Social Constructivist Approaches |
10 |
4 |
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2 |
Quiz #4 |
50 |
4 |
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3 |
Midterm Exam |
125 |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
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4 |
Reflective Response: Information Processing Approach |
10 |
5 |
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4 |
Analyze and Apply: Assignment 1 |
75 |
5 |
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4 |
Reflective Response: English Language Arts (ELA) |
10 |
6 |
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4 |
Reflective Response: Math |
10 |
6 |
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4 |
Quiz #5 |
50 |
6 |
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5 |
Reflective Response: Teacher-Centered Planning |
10 |
7 |
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5 |
Analyze and Apply: Assignment 2 |
75 |
7 |
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5 |
Reflective Response: Exploring Motivation |
10 |
7 |
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5 |
Quiz #6 |
50 |
8 |
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6 |
Final Exam |
250 |
5, 6, 7, 8 |
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TOTAL |
1,000 |
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