sap course 1544776368
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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.
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