Course Title:
Development in Early Childhood
Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits:
(3+0+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 5 ECTS Credits
Catalog Description:
Basic concepts about physical, motor, cognitive, language, social- emotional, personality development, moral development and sexual development of children aged 36-72 months, developmental theories; factors affecting developmental areas; developmental characteristics; relation of development areas. Basic concepts about physical, motor, cognitive, language, social- emotional, personality development, moral development and sexual development of children aged 36-72 months, developmental theories; factors affecting developmental areas; developmental characteristics; relation of development areas.
Pre-requisite:
Co-requisite:
Pre-requisites: NONE
Co-requisites: NONE
Course Objectives:
This course aims to equip pre-service early childhood teachers with the knowledge of 36-72 months child development and learning theories and give them an ability of implementing those concepts in the early childhood developmental contexts, curriculum and models.
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify young children’s universal characteristics across age groups
2. Recognize children’s wide range of individual and developmental differences
3. Associate the contextual factors that affect young children’s development and learning
4. Discover how the theories of child development and learning have influenced early childhood program models and curricula
5. Critique the theories of child development and learning
6. Apply child development knowledge into early childhood teaching and learning
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods:
Telling/Explaining
Discussion/Debate
Scaffolding/Coaching
Collaborating
Case Study/Scenarion Analysis
Video Presentations
Field Trips
Guest Speakers
Web Searching
Assessment Methods and Criteria:
Test / Exam
Quiz
Observation
Presentation (Oral/Poster)
Revised By:
Adile Gülşah Saranlı