Curriculum and Development for Preschool Aged Children (30 Hours) This curriculum is designed to introduce participants to planning, developing and implementing curriculum to meet the unique needs of preschoolers. Even though they are all individuals, preschoolers follow a predictable pattern of development. In the first 15 hours of this course participants will study, together, these commonalities and then complete the course by choosing one of the following groups where application to a specific setting will be explored.
Group I: Curriculum and Development for Preschool Aged Children (Center-based) This group will complete the remaining 15 hours of core knowledge training by focusing on issues specific to working with preschoolers in center-based groups. Attention will be paid to building cooperative teaching teams, designing appropriate, safe, healthy learning environments, scheduling, building partnerships with parents, and managing larger groups constructively.
Group II: Curriculum and Development for Preschool Aged Children (Family Child Care) This group will complete the remaining 15 hours of this core knowledge training by focusing on working with the preschooler in a mixed age (family) grouping. Attention will be paid to planning environments that can double as a home while providing for safe, healthy and stimulating care, building long term relationships with parents, being a humane and responsive business, as well as other issues particular to being a family child care provider.
