Knowledge and facilitation of child development and learning; Use of play-based strategies for children’s learning across all developmental domains.

Knowledge, respect, and curiosity about culture, diversity, equity, and inclusion; Responsive approaches to individual cultures, language development, and needs.

Supporting Children’s positive Social-Emotional Development; Creating a positive Social-emotional classroom climate; Developing skills to facilitate and foster social skills and positive guidance techniques.

Communication with families; Builds strong relationships with children and families; Knowledge of Community resources.

Knowledge of Curriculum planning; The role of environments, schedules and routines. Strategies to support learning and development.

Professional/ conduct development; Beginning competency in a specialized body or area of knowledge.

This course provides historical context and theoretical perspectives of developmentally appropriate practices in early care and education for children from birth through age eight.

This course explores developmentally appropriate curriculum and environments for children from birth through age eight.

This course examines the processes of socialization focusing on the interrelationship of family, school, and community.

This course examines progression of development in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains.