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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ECED 152 - Multicultural Books

Credits: 3
Introduces high-quality developmentally-appropriate children’s books for early childhood and elementary classrooms. Students read and evaluate multicultural and anti-bias books that portray characters with authentic and realistic behaviors with an emphasis on race, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, age, culture, disability, and family lifestyle. Identifies children’s books which may be explicitly and/or subtly biased.

Course Fee: $10.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

  1. Identify characteristics of appropriate multicultural books for young children based on illustrations, story line, lifestyles and relationships between people.
  2. Discuss the effect that books have on a child’s self-image.
  3. Apply developmental information to compilation of an annotated multicultural/anti-bias booklist for P-5 classrooms.
  4. Plan, present and evaluate appropriate literacy units using multicultural and anti-bias tools.
  5. Adapt multicultural literacy activities for special needs preschool through elementary classrooms.
  6. Plan a classroom environment that supports and reflects a child’s cultural identity.
  7. Describe ways to encourage reading in the family.

Program Outcomes
  1. Use developmental milestones and observations of children’s behavior as a foundation for planning appropriate activities.
  2. Advocate for strategies that promote the cultural diversity of children, families and their communities.
  3. Demonstrate effective written, verbal and non-verbal communication
  4. Discuss current issues and trends in early childhood education.
  5. Identify typical and atypical growth and development (cognitive, linguistic, motor, and social).
  6. Positively support children’s whole development.
  7. Display a positive attitude and enthusiasm for the job
  8. Develop rapport and contribute to the work environment as a member of the instructional team.
  9. Practice ethical and professional standards of conduct
  10. Comply with laws (such as IDEA, Section 504, ADA), workplace policies, and procedures in relation to confidentiality, reporting of abuse, discipline, chain of command and delegation and supervision.


College-wide Outcomes
  • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
  • Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
  • Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.



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