Elementary Education
Program Learner Outcomes
Graduates of the Early Childhood Education program will be able to:
- Create and consistently maintain culturally relevant learning environments that support each child's individual skills and interests and promote effective methods of guidance;
- Develop and implement culturally relevant curriculum by observing, documenting, and assessing individual and group needs and skills;
- Identify ways to meet each child's individual needs, based on knowledge of child development from birth through age five, by planning culturally relevant activities that nurture cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development;
- Recognize, articulate, and implement health and safety standards and procedures;
- Identify ways to build partnerships with families and ways to share information, resources, and referrals;
- Identify and conduct themselves as early childhood professionals who use ethical guidelines and NAEYC standards related to early childhood practice and who are advocates for sound educational practices and policies; and
- Demonstrate excellent written, verbal, critical thinking, and problem solving skills, which will allow them to effectively make connections between prior knowledge/ experience and new learning.
