Early Childhood Education
Get hands-on experience in the classroom!
Spend time in rural, urban, and suburban classrooms as you are equipped to teach the youngest group of learners.
Learn from the best of the best teachers who are intentional about integrating the latest technology into the classroom. Outside the classroom, you'll gain invaluable experiences such as getting paid to tutor local elementary children or dancing the night away with Kappa Delta Pi's annual Jammin' in Your Jammies.
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"I know this is where I belong. "
- Hannah McCormish
Elementary Education, 2012
A major in Early Childhood Education consists of the following:
The major consists of course requirements in professional education (32 hrs.) and the early childhood education core (41 hrs.) as follows:
Professional Education Course Requirements:
- EDUC 112 - Foundations of Education
- EDUC 232 - Psychology of Human Learning
- EDUC 252 - Phonics
- EDUC 262 - Instructional Technology
- EDUC 405 - Applied Instructional Technology
- EDUC 415 - Assessment in Education
- EDUC 460 - Student Teaching Seminar
- EDUC 492 - Early Childhood Student Teaching
- SPED 243 - Inclusion and the Schools
Early Childhood Education Core:
- EDUC 245 - Teaching the Young Child
- EDUC 270 - Expressive Arts for Young Children
- EDUC 293 - Emergent and Early Reading Instruction
- EDUC 300 - Children’s Literature
- EDUC 305 - Adolescent Literature
- EDUC 334 - Communication and Collaboration in Early Childhood Education
- EDUC 357 - Content Reading Strategies
- EDUC 425 - Literacy Assessment and Instruction
- EDUC 445 - Integrated Social Studies and Language Arts for Children
- EDUC 447 - Integrated Math and Science for Children
- SPED 280 - Children with Exceptionalities in Early Childhood Education
- SPED 352 - Management Strategies in Education
- SPED 462 - Language Development and Differences
