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May 11, 2024
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Catalog 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ECED& 170 Learning Environments3 credits
This course focuses on the adult’s role in designing, evaluating, and improving indoor and outdoor environments which ensure quality learning, nurturing experiences, and optimizes the development of young children.
Prerequisites: ABED 040 (or placement into MATH 087 or higher) and ABED 046 (or placement into ENGL 093 or higher)
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Design healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments for children.
- Identify strategies to achieve compliance with Washington Administrative Code and other state or federal regulations.
- Create environments that promote growth in all developmental domains and academic disciplines.
- Establish environments, routines, and schedules that promote children’s age- appropriate, self-regulated behaviors.
- Establish environments that promote the cultural diversity of children, families, and their communities.
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:
- plan, implement, and evaluate children’s programs using current child development knowledge
- apply developmentally appropriate guidance techniques
- be prepared to create a learning environment that fosters language, social, cognitive, and motor skills in young children
- follow the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) as it relates to early childhood programs
Total Hours: 30 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 30
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