Childcare Center
COURSE OVERVIEW
FOR
"HONORS EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION II - 7112"
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
TEACHER: EVERLENE DAVIS , M. ED., CFCS, NBCT, FCCLA, ADVISER
GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION
HONORS EARLY CHILDHOOD II covers children birth to age twelve years old in childcare, preschool and school-age settings. 50% of the class is work based learning and the other 50% is classroom instruction.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Honors Early Childhood Education II prepares students to work with children birth to twelve year year of age in child care, preschool and/or school-age settings. Articulation encourages students to continue their education at a Community College or University. Students receive instruction in childcare pertaining to teaching methods, career development, program planning and management, health and safety issues, entrepreneurship skills, and technology.
This course is a two-credit course with work-based learning comprising over 50% of the required coursework.
Students who successfully complete this course and are 18 years of age will be eligible to apply for the North Carolina Early Childhood Credential through the Division of Child Development or articulate with the community college and the Division of Child Development to obtain this credential.
The work-based learning strategies appropriate for this course are school-based enterprises, internships, cooperative education, service learning, field trips, job shadowing, and apprenticeships.
SCAN (industry) skill development and FCCLA leadership activities provide the opportunity to apply instructional competencies and career management skills to authentic experiences.
The Blueprint will be followed extending the way activities are taught with Rigor and higher quality outcomes at the end of each unit. In addition to the Blueprint MORE performance activities will be added to apply the application of the knowledge gained in this course. These requirements were made as an LEA decision.
UNITS OF INSTRUCTION AS LISTED IN COURSE BLUEPRINT ARE:
A. CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND PROFESSIONALISM
B. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
C. HEALTHY AND SAFETY
D. PROGRAM PLANNING
COMPETENCIES AS LISTED IN COURSE BLUEPRINT ARE:
CUO1.00 Apply career development techniques.
CUO2.00 Summarize strategies for professional growth and development.
CUO3.00 Interpret government regulations involved in operating early childhood programs.
CUO4.00 Summarize management procedures in childhood programs.
CUO5.00 Analyze ways to promote positive parent, staff, and community relationships in early
Childhood programs.
CUO6.00 Summarize ways to provide for the safety of children in early childhood programs.
CUO7.00 Practice ways to meet the nutritional needs of young children.
CUO8.00 Apply principles for planning developmentally appropriate curriculum for children from
birth through ages eight.
CUO9.00 Design developmentally appropriate learning environments for children from birth
Through age eight.
CU10.00 Apply principles of planning, presenting, and evaluating developmentally appropriate
Activities that promote cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development of children
of children from birth through age eight.
CU11.00 Apply the principles of planning, presenting, and evaluating developmentally appropriate
activities in programs for special groups.