BKE 3331 - Creating Environments for Young Children

Credits: 3 hrs

This course is designed to prepare students to create, adapt, implement and manage safe, rich, and developmentally appropriate classroom environments which develop emergent conceptual abilities, cognitive processing skills, optimal social and physical skills and creative expressions of young children. In a 20-hour field experience, students demonstrate the ability to foster children’s learning, manage health and safety needs, and implement an integrated curriculum that is developmentally and functionally appropriate and includes individual, group, child and teacher initiated activities.