of classroom practices are important professional activities. 5) The student's learning and well-being rely on relationships that go well beyond the classroom. 6) Issues such as management of students' behavior, classroom procedures, and classroom organization are situated within and related to the larger framework of successful planning and conduct of instruction. In summary, this course addresses both instruction and behavior as well as executive and communication skills. Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education

ECED 3212 Literacy I: Basic Literacy Instruction for Early
Childhood Education (3-0-3)
This course is designed to help beginning early childhood teachers learn how to teach reading, writing, oral language development, and listening in their classrooms. It will focus on the best practice supported by research in these fields and will emphasize how the teacher can set up a classroom that fosters literacy learning for students aged 5-12. The class is highly field based and will require students to implement many of the strategies taught in class.

ECED 3222 Early Childhood Mathematics Education II - Grades 3, 4, 5 (3-0-3)
This course will include experiences that engage prospective teachers in active learning that builds on their knowledge, understanding, and ability. The course will focus on mathematics as a conceptual approach enabling children to acquire clear and stable concepts by constructing meanings in the context of physical situations and allows mathematical abstractions to emerge from empirical experiences. The students will be expected to integrate knowledge of mathematics, learning, pedagogy, and students and apply that knowledge to teaching mathematics in grades 3 through 5. Prerequisites:Courses in Block I.

ECED 3231 Early Childhood Science Education I (3-0-3)
Teachers of grades Pre-K - 5 usually are generalists who teach most, if not all, school subjects. A primary task of these teachers is to lay the experiential, conceptual, and attitudinal foundation for future learning in science by guiding students through a range of inquiry activities. This course will include experiences that engage prospective teachers in active learning that builds on their knowledge, understanding, and ability. The course will address issues, events, problems, and process skills in Physical Science in grades Pre-K through 5. The students will be expected to integrate knowledge of science, learning, and pedagogy and apply that knowledge to science teaching. Prerequisites: Courses in Block I.

ECED 3241 Early Childhood Social Studies Education I-Geography and
History in K-5 Curriculum (3-0-3)
This course will develop an understanding of the conceptual structure of geography and history, their primary modes of inquiry, the themes and learning standards identified in both the national geography standards and the national history standards. Students will explore the implications of these understandings for formulating instruction and assessment activities in these content areas that are appropriate to K-5 learners. Special emphasis will be placed on instructional approaches that actively engage young learners in concept formulation, skill introduction and development, performance assessment. Prerequisites: Courses in Block I.

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