ECE 262 - Early Childhood Field Experience

*Requires a minimum of 60 contact hours (3600 minutes) for 1 credit of direct work with children, with the remaining contact hours equal to two credits being distributed across direct contact and classroom hours as deemed appropriate by the institution.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: ECE 158 - Early Childhood Curriculum I , ECE 159 - Early Childhood Curriculum II , ECE 243 - Early Childhood Guidance , and ECE 221 - Infant/Toddler Care and Education   

Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face and/or virtual

Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.

Course Fees: None

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
A. Child Development and Learning in Context

1. Understand the ways that child development and the learning process occur in multiple contexts, including family, culture, language, community, and early learning setting, as well as in a larger societal context that includes structural inequities (NAEYC Standard 1c).

B. Family-Teacher Partnerships and Community Connections

1. Collaborate as partners with families in young children’s development and learning through respectful, reciprocal relationships and engagement (NAEYC Standard 2b).

C. Child Observation, Documentation, and Assessment

1. Know a wide range of types of assessments, their purposes, and their associated methods and tools  (NAEYC Standard 3b).
2. Use screening and assessment tools in ways that are ethically grounded and developmentally, ability, culturally, and linguistically appropriate in order to document developmental progress and promote positive outcomes for each child (NAEYC Standard 3c).
3. Build assessment partnerships with families and professional colleagues (NAEYC Standard 3d).

D. Developmentally, Culturally, and Linguistically Appropriate Teaching Practices

1. Use a broad repertoire of developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically relevant, anti-bias, evidence-based teaching skills and strategies that reflect the principles of universal design for learning (NAEYC Standard 4c).

E. Knowledge, Application, and Integration of Academic Content in the Early Childhood Curriculum

1. Modify teaching practices by applying, expanding, integrating, and updating their content knowledge in the disciplines, their knowledge of curriculum content resources, and their pedagogical content knowledge (NAEYC Standard 5c).

F. Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator

1. Know about and uphold ethical and other early childhood professional guidelines (NAEYC Standard 6b).
2. Use professional communication skills, including technology mediated strategies, to effectively support young children’s learning and development and to work with families and colleagues (NAEYC Standard 6c).
3. Engage in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice (NAEYC Standard 6d).
4. Develop and sustain the habit of reflective and intentional practice in their daily work with young children and as members of the early childhood profession (NAEYC Standard 6e).