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SYLLABUS ECI 620 (WEB BASED)
Early Childhood Curriculum
Center for Excellence in Education
Northern Arizona University
Spring 2001
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Instructors:
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Dr. MaryJane Blasi
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Dr. Kelvin Broad
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e-mail:
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phone:
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(520) 523-0366
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(520) 523 8226
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Introduction
Welcome to this seminar course hosted on the Internet. The format has
allowed us to expand our community of learners. The journal articles and
books are all recent and have been chosen as a starting point for discussions
of theory and practice in the area of Early Childhood Curriculum. You
will gain new perspectives and insights and this experience will be a
forum to share your perspectives with other educators.
Goals/Outcomes
Every participant will practice professional reflection upon reading
in the area of Early Childhood curriculum. You will also engage in on-line
dialog with class peers. A broadening of vision and networking links will
be developed within this cyber community. Direct, practical application
ideas are encouraged as well as discussions of broad, national trends
in early childhood education. The technological links provided by Cline
Library and the hot buttons will ease the distribution of reading materials
as well as sharpen the technology skills of the users. Curricular decisions
and the consequences of those decisions will be better understood. Please
understand that this is NOT a correspondence course. This is an
on-line graduate seminar course. You will be discussing specific topics
in each module with other educators across the state. Please do
not go ahead of assigned dates for assignments.
Course objectives
- Identify theories that inform early childhood curriculum.
- Become more knowledgeable of model programs in early childhood
education
- Examine and develop strategies for implementing developing appropriate
practice in the classroom.
Course Requirements:
Personal Biographical Sketch
Write a short biography introducing yourself to other members
of this class. Be sure to tell us about your teaching experience and your
current teaching placement. Post on the discussion forum in the Virtual
Conference Center by January 20th. You are welcome to respond to your
peers after their biographies are submitted. (3 pts)
Discussion Forum Participation
Engage in Discussion Forum discussions at least 3 times
per module (modules 2-8) - day and time of your choice. First posting
is succinct summary of what you feel are important points of readings.
Second and third postings should be responses to other students' postings.
(1 point per posting = max. total of 21 pts.)
Journal Responses via e-mail to instructor - Bi-weekly
after each module.
Objectives:
- To engage critically with aspects of early childhood curriculum by
integrating your personal experiences of teaching and learning in early
childhood with understandings gained from examining research and scholarship
in the field.
- To clearly articulate your position with respect to current and past
theory and practice in early childhood education and support your position
using excerpts from the literature and anecdotes from you previous teaching
and learning experiences in early childhood.
At the conclusion of each module, you will write a journal response.
This is a clear, concise piece of writing that addresses issues or concerns
that arose for you as you read the material. Use quotes from the literature,
anecdotes from your teaching/learning experiences, and excerpts from our
on-line discussion forum to support your assertions.
Begin each journal entry with an introductory paragraph that outlines
what you will be addressing in your response. Each journal response will
be no longer than 2 pages typed 12 point font.
Submitting your journal
Your journal submissions must be made by the concluding date for each
module (as outlined below. Those students whose LAST name starts with
any of the letters from A-L will submit their journal responses by e-mail
to maryjane.blasi@nau.edu.
Those students whose LAST name starts with the letters from M-Z will submit
their journal responses by e-mail to kelvin.broad@nau.edu (6 pts. Per module response
= total 36 pts). You will recieve feedback and grades on your journal
responses via e-mail.
Major Paper - on line, due Apr 15th.
After completing the first five modules of this course you will have
explored a number of diverse curriculum models for early childhood. Based
upon your readings of our course text and the Katz article write a paper
about your vision of an exemplary Early Childhood curriculum and what
this curriculum would look like in action in an early childhood education
center. (Approximately 5-7 pages). Those students whose LAST name starts
with any of the letters from A-L will submit their journal responses by
e-mail to kelvin.broad@nau.edu .Those students whose
LAST name starts with the letters from M-Z will submit their journal responses
by e-mail to maryjane.blasi@nau.edu.
(25 pts). Note that you are submitting your major paper to the instructor
you DO NOT submitt your journal to.
Annotated Bibliography of WWW Education Resources
The World Wide Web is becoming a useful resource for teachers in both
their research and practice. This assignment is designed to encourage
you to familiarize yourself with the resources that are available on the
World Wide Web. To complete this assignment:
- Select 5 websites and record the title and the URL of each website
- Write a 2-3 paragraph description/summary of the website describing
what material/information is available on the site and how this would
be useful for professionals who work in early childhood settings.
This assignment may be submitted at any time on or before
May 4th. This is an independent component of the course so we encourage
you to complete this component as early as possible. This assignment will
be submitted to kelvin.broad@nau.edu. He will load this material
onto his website at http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~kgb8
so your sites and descriptions will become part of an early childhood
link library for Early Childhood Educators. (15 pts).
Total 100 points
Grading System:
90-100% A
80- 89% B
70- 79% C
60- 69% D
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