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Jan 17, 2025
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ECED& 170 - Learning Environments Credits: 3 Focuses on the adult’s role in designing, evaluating, and improving indoor and outdoor environments that ensure quality learning, nurturing experiences, and optimize the development of young children.
Course Fee: $25.00
Course Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
- Design healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments for children.
- Identify strategies to achieve compliance with Washington Administrative Code and other state or federal regulations.
- Create environments that promote growth in all developmental domains and academic disciplines.
- Establish environments, routines, and schedules that promote children’s age- appropriate, self-regulated behaviors.
- Establish environments that promote the cultural diversity of children, families, and their communities.
- Describe a variety of strategies for building relationships with all families.
- Review tools used to evaluate program effectiveness and identify areas for improvements.
- Apply the NAEYC Code of Ethics in resolving an administrative dilemma (case study).
Program Outcomes
- Design, set up and manage safe, healthy environments, spaces, equipment and materials which invite learning.
- Discuss the dynamics of family structure.
- Involve parents and community agencies in early childhood development.
- Develop, plan, and implement developmentally appropriate curriculum for early education.
- Modify curriculum, instructional strategies and methods of assessment to meet the needs of exceptional, high risk, and special needs students.
College-wide Outcomes
- 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.
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