Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ECED 440 Practicum: Advanced Application of Project-Based Curriculum4 credits
Students will apply their knowledge of the curriculum project approach with children by researching their interests, supporting in-depth investigations, documenting learning, and engaging families and co-teachers. Students will facilitate each phase of the project and a culminating event or activity and will practice methods for visual documentation of children’s learning.
Prerequisites: ECED 375 , ECED 400 , and ECED 410
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
Determine children’s interests and developmental needs and utilize that information to design and support in-depth investigations
Prepare visual documentation of children’s learning during the project-based investigations to engage families and co-teachers and to include children in self-reflective practice and expression related to their learning
Evaluate and support children’s interests through each phase of the project-based approach, including the emergence of the topic, investigation phase. and culminating event
Facilitate the use of provocations, planning with young children, scaffolding to promote optimal learning experiences, and engaging in child-led investigations daily and on a long term basis
Total Hours: 100 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 10 Field-Based Experience (Practicum or Internship) Hours: 90
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