Today’s Early Childhood Classroom

• Analyze factors that influence discipline issues within the early childhood learning environment.
• Describe the relationship of family, culture, and society on early childhood classroom management.
• Identify teacher skills that facilitate developmentally effective classroom management.
• Analyze the guiding principles of a proactive management plan within the early childhood setting.

Building Student Rapport in the Early Childhood Setting

• Examine the importance of mutual respect in the early childhood setting.
• Demonstrate communication skills that support children in solving problems and making effective choices.

Establishing Expectations and Procedures in the Early Childhood Learning Environment

• Identify the need for establishing standards of developmentally appropriate behavior.
• Analyze methods of creating classroom expectations and procedures for early childhood environments.
• Identify examples of teaching rules and procedures in the early childhood setting.

Models of Classroom Discipline in the Early Childhood Setting

• Examine selected models of developmentally appropriate discipline.
• Analyze the relationship between expectations and behaviors for children from birth to age eight.
• Identify the use of consequences and redirection in the early childhood setting.

Enhancing Student Motivation to Learn in Early Childhood

• Identify teacher behaviors that promote young children’s motivation to learn.
• Examine developmentally effective methods for engaging young children in the learning process.
• Discuss strategies to enhance student responsibility and social development within the early childhood setting.
• Describe developmentally effective characteristics of a physical environment that engages all children.
• Assess the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of early childhood learning environments.

Working With Family

• Describe strategies to encourage cooperation and communication between parents or caregivers and teachers within the early childhood population.
• Develop an outline for a parent orientation meeting in an early childhood setting.

Minimizing Off-Task Behavior in the Early Childhood Population

• Identify disruptive and nondisruptive behaviors of an early childhood student.
• Compare and contrast disruptive and nondisruptive behaviors of children from birth to age eight.
• Identify developmentally effective strategies to redirect disruptive and nondisruptive, off-task behaviors.
• Assess the use of time management strategies to minimize off-task behaviors in the early childhood setting.

Early Childhood Classroom Management Plans

• Examine various classroom management plans based on the principles outlined in this course.
• Identify materials management and record keeping systems that facilitate an effective learning climate for young children.
• Identify technology that can assist in early childhood classroom management.

Effective Instructional Planning and Assessment in the Early Childhood Setting

• Analyze how short-term and long-term instructional planning foster effective classroom management in early childhood learning environments.
• Apply a variety of instructional strategies and resources to address the needs of diverse learners in the early childhood setting.
• Examine the importance of using assessment to plan instruction and its significance for classroom management in the early childhood learning environment.