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| ECE 500. Early Childhood Classroom Management (1) |
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This course addresses classroom management in settings that serve children from birth through third grade. Using the Reflective Urban Practitioner Model, the course content covers establishing a positive social climate, designing appropriate physical environments, establishing classroom rules and routines, and discussing techniques for handling challenging behaviors. As candidates explore the elements of classroom management, they reflect on what they also learned about classroom management in their previous field experiences.
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| ECE 610. Child Study as a Basis for Educational Planning (3) |
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The course deals with the analysis of children developmentally, psychologically, physically to help the teacher educate the whole child. Readings done by the students as well as situations in their classrooms will serve as the basis for class discussions. Motivation, basic needs, developmental tasks as well as other areas will be considered and related to the school situation and the various age levels involved.
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| ECE 612. Experiences for Learning and Development (3) |
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This course offers a comprehensive survey of psychological principles of learning and development of infants and young children in early childhood and elementary education. Emphasis is on implications for the early childhood setting, educational processes, and the creation of an enriched educational environment.
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| ECE 622. Constructs of Early Childhood education and Field Experience I (3) |
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This course is required of those candidates at the graduate level who are seeking certification as elementary teachers and may be taken as an elective for other students in the Master's program. All undergraduate prerequisites for certification must be met prior to or concurrently with this first Field Experience requirement. Lectures focus on the history, philosophies, and theories that underlie early childhood education. Students arrange six one-hour-long observations in appropriate early childhood settings with the approval of the professor. They also conduct six interviews with a young child's community and family members. Discussions and reflections concerning those experiences are the focus of small-and whole-group activities throughout the semester. A paper that integrates the classroom lectures, discussion activities, and interviews of community and family members, with the field experiences is the culminating project.
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| ECE 623. Early Childhood Field Experience II (1) |
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This course takes place during the entire semester and consists of a once-a-week, all-day focused field experience and four seminars. Students are placed in an early childhood/elementary setting, or, if they are employed in an appropriate early childhood/elementary setting, they may use their own classroom as their laboratory. It consists of observations of young children and guided reflection. Students will document interactions with parents which encourage and enhance their involvement in their young child's development and education.
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| ECE 625. Foundations of Numeracy and Literacy (1) |
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This course provides a framework of theory, research, and developmentally appropriate practice for the Early Childhood Masters level student. Influences of the family and the environment on the development of numeracy and literacy are explored.
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| ECE 630. Program Planning for Day Care and Preschool (3) |
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This is a course designed to give the staff worker, the administrator, and the beginning student preparing to work in day care an opportunity to investigate how to work with young children in an inner city environment.
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| ECE 631. Early Childhood Curriculum and Programs (3) |
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This course focuses on developmentally appropriate curriculum for all areas of child development through an inte-grated approach. The physical environment, program organization, teacher roles, early childhood programs and models, parental involvement are studied.
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| ECE 632. Advanced Early Childhood Curriculum and Programs (3) |
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This course approaches curriculum from a process approach looking at meaning, problem solving, critical thinking, thinking skills. Various curriculum models are evaluated. Curriculum is related to assessment, measurement and evaluation measures which are appropriate for use in early childhood classrooms.
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| ECE 633. Seminar and Practicum in Early Childhood Education (3) |
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This course combines field experiences in various types of early childhood programs with a seminar approach relating theory and research to practice. It focuses on developing reflective practitioners who become more aware of their own teaching styles in relation to curriculum planning and children's group and individual needs.
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| ECE 634. Family, Child and School Interaction (3) |
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Attitudes and involvement of parents and children and teachers are studied to develop specific techniques and materials for expanding the collaborative role of parents in the educational process. Emphasis is placed on conducting parent-teacher conferences, group meetings, child study groups, and workshops with community and human resources, i.e., guidance specialists, pediatricians, nurses and health departments.
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| ECE 635. Research Seminar in Early Childhood Education (3) |
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A seminar designed to emphasize the principles of scientific research. The completion of a study demonstrating the candidate's ability to employ sound research techniques in a useful field investigation is the significant requirement to the seminar. (EDL 668. Research in Urban Education, Supervision and Administration may be substituted.)
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| ECE 642. Development and Adjustment Problems (3) |
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This course focuses on techniques to help young children who show evidence of developmental delays, disorders or disabilities. Students will learn strategies for the identification, assessment, evaluation, program planning and individualized teaching of these young children.
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| ECE 644. Play and Creativity (1) |
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This course explores the nature of play, and creativity, and how it is nurtured and enriched. Play theory, play research the nature and stages of play are examined. Interrelationship between play, creativity and development, learning, and imagination are considered.
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| ECE 648. Meeting the Diverse Needs of the Early Childhood Classroom (1) |
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This course investigates in depth the unique body of research, theory and practice that will assist urban early childhood professionals in working with the diversity in typical early childhood settings. Effective educational strategies and community networks that are available to help early childhood professionals to respond with sensitivity and appropriateness are explored.
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| ECE 650. Internship (5) |
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Students will observe, participate, and work with children in two supervised student teaching settings. Students will plan for and evaluate instruction. They will plan for and conduct assessment of student learning. Students will assume full responsibilities of the classroom teacher during the course of the semester and will be responsible for both in-class and out-of-class activities normally assigned to teachers.
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| ECE 651. Internship Seminar (1) |
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This one-credit course is designed to help the student to analyze and evaluate his/her own student teaching experience and progress. Curriculum concerns of school systems involved are address-ed in terms of the teaching experience. Special attention is devoted to methodology unique to developmentally appropriate curriculum using an integrated approach as well as to various subjects areas, i.e., learning other languages, science, math, English, social studies, art, music and health. Planning, implementing, assessing and managing unique instructional methods and activities such as field trips, laboratories, workshops and other alternate learning sites are examined.
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| ECE 666. Supervision in Early Childhood (3) |
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This course devotes attention to the theories of leadership and the concepts of supervision that are applicable in early childhood settings. Opportunities to practice the various and diverse skills associated with effective supervision are provided.
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| ECE 667. School and Child Care Legal Issues (1) |
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This course is designed to provide early childhood administrators and teachers with an awareness of legal issues regarding the rights and responsibilities of educators, parents and children. Students examine current law and appropriate strategies for early childhood settings.
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| ECE 680. School and Child Care Center Finance (1) |
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This course provides budgetary knowledge. Students explore the principles of financial management and accounting for making decisions regarding the fiscal management of early childhood programs.
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| ECE 683. Facilities Design, Operational & Administrative Issues in Child Care Centers (1) |
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This course provides an overview of effective facility design for early childhood settings of quality. Students consider various operational and administrative issues that pertain to facilities and to educational programming.
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