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2007-2009 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDEC 4420 - Teaching Developmental Language Arts in Early Childhood Education

Credits: 3
Designed to help the early childhood teacher integrate teaching skills with the applied theory, practice, and knowledge from previous courses in early childhood. A content-based course, with reference to appropriate language arts curriculum as indicated in the state of Ohio’s guidelines for the education of young children. The primary focus of this course is on language acquisition and development of early learners. Students become familiar with research-based language arts programs while incorporating them into the curriculum, instructional delivery, and student performance-based evaluation. Students demonstrate teaching design, develop, and “publish” lesson plans and units and evaluate their own teaching effectiveness.Field experience is an integral part.Prereq: EDEC 3385 and appropriate admission status.Coreq: EDEC 4400, 4415, 4416, and 4421