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Early Childhood Education (BS) Academic Policies and Requirements

Early Childhood Education (BS) Program Outcomes

1. Apply local, state and national guidelines and regulations in an Early Childhood Education environment.
2. Implement ethical, responsible, and developmentally appropriate practices in Early Childhood Education.
3. Model interpersonal skills such as leadership, enthusiasm, problem solving, and commitment to nurturing the whole child within the Early Childhood profession and to engage in a network of ongoing professional development.
4. Develop, observe, and assess unbiased and developmentally appropriate Early Childhood curricula in partnerships with families and other professionals.
5. Create curriculum and strategies to improve children's development in language arts, numeracy, technology, social/emotional and physical development through the process of interconnected curricular content development.
6. Acknowledge and promote the awareness of and sensitivity to the diversity of families and communities.
7. Identify and use community resources to advocate for young children and their families to encourage parents as their child's first teacher.
8. Apply child development theories and techniques to meet the needs of typically and atypically developing children.
9. Demonstrate and apply knowledge of influences on curriculum with a focus on assessment of curriculum practices within a variety of programs.
10. Develop curriculum with a focus on differentiation for the purposes of ongoing individual and group assessment and instruction.
11. Demonstrate practical application in the ethical, developmentally appropriate, assessment and referral of young children with a focus on coordinating community services for children with typical and atypical development and their families.
12. Demonstrate through the process of quality program administration, knowledge and skill in the application of national and state guidelines, including laws, professional standards, ethics, leadership, and team building practices.
13. Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to advocate for children through the process of empowering the parent as the lifelong advocate for their child.

Effective: November 2019

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College of Education - Student Learning Outcomes

General Student Learning Outcomes

2017-2018 (UG17)

2018-2019 (UG18)

2019-2020 (UG19)

2020-2021 (UG20)

2021-2022 (UG21)

2022-2023 (UG22)

2023-2024 (UG23)

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