Teaching Methodologies

• Identify and analyze terms and concepts related to teaching methodologies.
• Identify teaching methods and their application to curriculum content.
• Examine effective techniques and activities related to cognitive content and creative behavior.
• Explain how to adapt educational activities and materials for young children with special needs.

Language and Literacy Curriculum and Teaching Methodologies

• Identify the curriculum content needed in a successful language and literacy program.
• Analyze how to integrate the national and state standards into the language and literacy curriculum.
• Examine the impact of second language acquisition and bilingualism on language and literacy curriculum.
• Examine effective methodologies of teaching language and literacy to young children across a developmental continuum.
• Design strategies and activities in order to work with the effect of the sociopolitical context related to the acquisition of a second language and young children with special needs.
• Design educational activities and materials for language arts and literacy.

The Arts Curriculum and Teaching Methodologies

• Identify the curriculum content needed in a successful arts program.
• Analyze how to integrate the national and state standards into the arts curriculum.
• Examine effective methodologies of teaching the arts to young children across a developmental continuum.
• Identify activities that allow young children to express themselves through music, dance, drama, and painting.
• Analyze how children can understand the world through music, dance, drama, and painting.
• Design educational activities and materials for the arts.

Physical Education Curriculum and Teaching Methodologies

• Identify the curriculum content needed in a successful physical education program.
• Analyze how to integrate the national and state standards into the physical education curriculum.
• Examine effective methodologies of teaching physical education to young children across a developmental continuum including nursery, preschool, and kindergarten.
• Analyze the possible impact that cultural differences and gender expectations can have on teaching methodologies in physical education.
• Design educational activities and materials for physical education.

Introduction to Technology as a Teaching Strategy

• Examine the impact of instructional technology on the early childhood curriculum related to language and literacy, the arts, and physical education.
• Analyze the use of the computer as a tool to develop young children's skills and concepts.
• Analyze the use of the computer as a strategy in curriculum content development for young children.

All Course Topics and Objectives Apply