BKE 3327 - Study and Recording of Child Development

Credits: 3 hrs

This course is designed to develop a broad set of observation skills in teachers of young children. Through this course students acquire the ability to apply and interpret a variety of formal and informal assessment tools. Students collect data on groups of and individual children, utilizing system observations, screening and developmental assessment tools, interviewing and descriptive case studies. Each student completes an individual case study. A 20-hour field experience is required. Students begin the field experience by observing in a variety of settings serving birth through kindergarten, typical and atypical children, and progress to an intensive study of an individual child for the purpose of developing a case study that includes an individualized education plan.