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 Department:    EDUC&

 Course #:    130

 Credits:    3

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    3

 CIP:    131501

 EPC:    839

 REV:    2018

 Course Description  

Examine the principles and theories promoting social competence in young children and creating safe learning environments. Develop skills promoting effective interactions, providing positive individual guidance, and enhancing group experiences.

 Prerequisite  

None

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 33

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory Required for ATA degree, Required for certificate  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify and differentiate developmentally appropriate child behaviors, individually and in groups.
2. List and describe positive guidance techniques for children birth through early adolescence.
3. Describe and demonstrate positive, respectful, culturally responsive interactions.
4. Create a model daily schedule, routine, and environment that provide support for attachment, self-help, relationship building and exercising executive function.
5. Develop strategies to promote social/emotion competencies and positive sense of self.
6. Identify and communicate strategies for professional interactions with families and other staff reflecting confidentiality, respect and a positive approach to guidance.
7. Compare and contrast at least three approaches to guiding young children�s behavior.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

1. Information Literacy

Definition: Recognizing when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
1.3 Evaluate information and its sources critically.

2. Critical Thinking

Definition: The ability to think critically about the nature of knowledge within a discipline and about the ways in which that knowledge is constructed and validated and to be sensitive to the ways these processes often vary among disciplines.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
2.8 Describe how one’s own preconceptions, biases and values affect one’s response to new and ambiguous situations.
2.9 Apply and/or create problem-solving strategies to successfully adapt to unpredictable and/or changing environments.

6. Individual Awareness & Responsibility

Definition: Understanding, managing, and taking responsibility for one’s learning and behavior in varied and changing environments.

Outcomes: Students will be able to . . .
6.1 Identify ethical and healthy choices and apply these personally, socially, academically, and professionally.
6.4 Use self-reflection to recognize and define a sense of self-identity in personal, social/gender, and/or cultural/global terms and in relationship to others.

Course Contents

1. Theories of guidance and discipline including:
   • Positive guidance and encouragement;
   • Punishment and reward;
   • Behavior modification;
   • Environmental settings.
2. Classroom management systems.
3. Role of the teacher.
4. Administration.
5. Paraprofessionals.
6. Volunteers.
7. Parent and child in a classroom setting.
8. Diversity and multiple perspectives in creating culturally sensitive classroom management strategies.