• ECED 4220: Understanding Children

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course provides a foundation for understanding and engaging with children's behavior and needs in school, home, and community settings, toward new and relational understandings of children, child development, and difference. While studying theories and research from fields of neuroscience, psychoanalysis, Disability Studies in Education, and critical perspectives in early childhood education, students will practice therapeutic techniques for observation and engagement with children and families.
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• ECED 4230: Obs/Assess Children in Context

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course provides students with knowledge and skills to use observation, documentation, and assessment tools to inform instruction, planning, and intervention programs for young children birth through eight years. Special attention is given to contextualized assessment practices that are responsive to children's strengths, needs, cultures, races, languages, and family experiences.
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• ECED 4270: Young Children's Play

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course focuses on the active joyful nature of young children's play, therapeutic and educational value, and how play may vary for children experiencing diverse abilities, circumstances and cultural backgrounds. Students will gain practical strategies for supporting the play of all children.
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• ECED 4510: Contemp Planning for Children

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  An in-depth study of a contemporary issue in childhood. Repeatable for a maximum of 6 hours. In some cases, this course may substitute for one of the minor requirements when it has received prior approval from a department advisor.
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• ECED 4620: Early Childhood Curriculum

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  Critical issues, theories, research, and practice in curriculum for inclusive early childhood education. The goal of this course is to assist students in planning, implementing, and evaluating curriculum that is accessible and culturally sustaining for diverse children and families. Students will be challenged to develop and articulate their own philosophies on what should be taught to young children and why.
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• ECED 4630: Young Children's Play

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course focuses on the active joyful nature of young children's play, therapeutic and educational value, and how play may vary for children experiencing diverse abilities, circumstances and cultural backgrounds. Students will gain practical strategies for supporting the play of all children.
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• ECED 4670: STEM in Early Childhood

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  The purpose of this course is to build on a foundation of knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice for teaching integrated content in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in early childhood settings. Fundamental approaches to learning will be employed to integrate learning across these disciplines. Students will develop meaningful curriculum content through hands-on learning experiences designed for children (birth through age 8) based on accepted learning standards in each content area. Prerequisite:    CHF 2600 and CHF 2610 and CHF 2620 and ECED 2600 and ECED 2610 and ECED 2620
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• ECED 4710: Adv Guidance & Planning/ECEduc

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  A synthesis of guidance and planning with an emphasis on assessment, appropriate objectives and strategies for individual and specific groups of children. Corequisite:    ECED 4720
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• ECED 4720: Student Teaching Birth-5

  3.00 - 6.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  Student teaching provides a full-time 16-week, immersion experience. Students are placed in the Weber State University Melba S. Lehner Children's School or an approved off-campus pre-kindergarten classroom and spend the entire semester there. The focus is the study of developmentally appropriate practices using NAEYC professional standards for children birth to 5 years. During student teaching, students steadily increase their leadership in classroom responsibilities including curriculum development in math, science, language arts, and social studies; classroom design; child guidance; assessment; family involvement; health and safety; and the development of a professional role in the pre-K early childhood classroom. Supervision is provided by university supervisor and field-based professionals. Prerequisite:    CHF 1500 and CHF 2500 and CHF 2600 and CHF 2610 and CHF 2620 and CHF 3640 and ECED 2500 and ECED 2600 and ECED 2610 and ECED 2620 and ECED 3640 Corequisite:    ECED 4710
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• ECED 4721: Student Teaching K-3

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  Student teaching provides a full-time 14-week, immersion experience for students in the early primary grades. Students are placed in one public school classroom and spend the entire semester there. The focus is the study of developmentally appropriate practices using NAEYC standards for primary grades. During student teaching, students steadily increase their leadership in classroom responsibilities including curriculum development in math, science, language arts, and social studies; classroom design; child guidance; assessment; family involvement; health and safety; and the development of a professional role in the public school-early childhood classroom. Supervision provided by university supervisor and field-based professionals to meet national professional standards and support mastery of knowledge, skills, dispositions required for teacher certification concentration in Early Childhood Education (Kindergarten - grade 3). Prerequisite:    ECED 4720
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