ECE 151 - Guiding Children in Group Settings

3 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s):

ECE 125 , ECE 161 , ECE 163 , or ED 225 or permission of Instructor.

Course Description: Addresses positive ways to support children’s social-emotional development from birth to age eight by understanding children’s behavior. Focuses on adult-child and child-child interactions and relationships.

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Identify how an adult’s style of guiding children affects children’s behavior and development. (ILO: Critical Thinking)
CLO#2: Recognize that the ability to implement positive and effective child guidance is based on one’s knowledge of child development.
CLO#3: Describe the major positive guidance strategies.
CLO#4: Identify aspects of early childhood classroom design that affect child guidance and behavior and their role in indirect guidance.
CLO#5: Explain the role of observation in making child guidance decisions.
CLO#6: Identify different sources and types of stress for young children and their impacts, as well as the concept of resilience.
CLO#7: Identify strategies for preventing or reducing aggression, including bullying as a form of aggression.

Typical Required and Recommended Equipment and Materials: Notebook and pen or pencil for noting observations of children, access to Blackboard via computer.

ACTI Code and Course Type
210 Career / Tech Preparatory

Length of Course:
A required state minimum of (30) and a standard RCC delivery of (33) lecture hours per term, not to exceed (36) hours per term.