Course Title:
Child Development and Learning
Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits:
(2+2+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 5 ECTS Credits
Catalog Description:
Physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and language characteristics of children ages between birth to eight. Contextual factors that affect young children’s development and learning. Theories of child development and learning. Application of child development and learning theories to early childhood learning teaching. Physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and language characteristics of children ages between birth to eight. Contextual factors that affect young children’s development and learning. Theories of child development and learning. Application of child development and learning theories to early childhood learning teaching.
Pre-requisite:
Co-requisite:
Pre-requisites: NONE
Co-requisites: NONE
Course Objectives:
This course aims to equip pre-service teachers with the knowledge of child development and learning theories and give them an ability of implementing those concepts in the early childhood and elementary grades teaching contexts, curriculum and models.
Course Learning Outcomes:
Upon succesful completion of this course, a student will be able to
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
Questioning
Scaffolding/Coaching
Demonstrating
Collaborating
Think-Pair-Share
Video Presentations
Hands-on Activities
Web Searching
Assessment Methods and Criteria:
Test / Exam
Oral Questioning
Case Studies / Homework
Observation
Presentation (Oral/Poster)