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Apr 29, 2024
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Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ECED 330 Assessing and Enhancing Environments4 credits
This course will focus on assessing and evaluating early learning indoor and outdoor environments based on quality rating systems, best practices in ECE, NAEYC standards, licensing (WAC) requirements, inclusivity, and program approaches. Students will demonstrate advanced skills in adjusting the indoor and outdoor environments to enhance children’s learning and development.
Prerequisites: ECED 300 and ECED 310
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Assess an early learning environment based on
- quality rating scales,
- best practices,
- early childhood education standards and requirements (including the WAC),
- and input from children and families
- Plan modification of an early learning environment based on assessment results
- Embed literacy experiences throughout the early learning environment
- Construct early learning environments based on current trends, such as aesthetically pleasing environments, use of natural materials, comprehensive outdoor play spaces, etc.
- Adapt early learning environments based on the needs of children, families, and communities
- Choose and create materials to enhance inclusivity and representation of diversity in the early learning environment
Total Hours: 40 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 40
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