ECE1107 - Child Growth and Development

Competencies

1. Examine the physical, social, emotional, language, cognitive and creative development of children from conception through age 18, and how development and learning are integrated.
2. Describe how to support the development and learning of individual children through understanding of how they differ in their development and approaches to learning.
3. Identify how the major theories of early childhood development and learning affect our current practice with families and children from conception through age 18.
4. Describe why it is crucial to support and promote the concepts of belonging and family connectedness throughout the early childhood environment and curriculum, including teacher interactions.
5. Describe the importance of building, maintaining and promoting a primary care relationship with each infant and toddler through the environment and curriculum, including teacher interactions.
6. Describe how development in the infant/toddler years affects the learning and development of preschoolers.
7. Explain how students construct knowledge and acquire skills.
8. Demonstrate knowledge of how each student's cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional and physical development influences learning, and make instructional decisions that build on learners' strengths, needs and cultural ways of knowing.
9. Explain the influence of tobacco, alcohol and drug use on student life and learning.
10. Summarize the relationship between motivation and engagement and design learning experiences using strategies that build self-direction and ownership of learning.