Curriculum and Environmental Design in Early Childhood Education: Part II

EECE

338

Curriculum and Environmental Design in Early Childhood Education: Part II

This course focuses on pedagogical and instructional issues in planning and implementing a developmentally appropriate curriculum in preschool, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classrooms through the lens of culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy. Pedagogical foci incorporate the importance of curricula that supports embodied and integrated learning opportunities, the uses of implicit and explicit instruction, fair and equitable classroom management, differentiated learning, authentic assessment, and more. Content area topics include early literacy and beginning skills, as well as math, social studies, and science learning and curricula. Special topics include the integration of children’s literature throughout the curriculum and early computational thinking. Historical and prevailing curricular models in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten are also explored.

Undergraduate

Yes

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