ECE 151 - Guiding Children in Group Settings

3 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): RD 90 and WR 90 or WR 91 (WR 91 substitutes for both RD 90 and WR 90) or designated placement. 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 Level: Career/Tech Preparatory

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: Understand 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.