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Learning and Creativity in Early Childhood — ECYD 1250

1. Course Description
   • Credits: 3.00
   • Lecture Hours/Week: 3.00
   • Lab Hours/Week: 0.00
   • OJT Hours/Week: 0
   • Prerequisites: None
   • Corequisites: None
   • MnTC Goals: None
   This course examines the role of adults in providing environments, interactions, and activities that support learning and creativity in the early childhood years. The nature and importance of play as a vehicle for child learning is addressed as well as implementation of developmentally and culturally appropriate practices. The importance of child choice and active exploration as strategies to meet appropriate goals for learning and development are stressed.
2. Course Effective Dates: 8/9/19 – Present
3. Outline of Major Content Areas
   As noted on course syllabus
4. Learning Outcomes
   1. Examine and define developmentally appropriate practice as it relates to individual children, their families, communities, and the early childhood program.
   2. Explain the adult?s role in assessing, supporting, and promoting creativity and learning within an environment for children age birth to age eight, including selection, organization, and arrangement of the learning environment, materials, and activities.
   3. Define creative development and describe how to create an environment where children are able to explore and expand their creative and other abilities.
   4. Describe the role of play in children?s learning and development.
   5. Plan and demonstrate appropriate experiences taking into consideration children?s schedule, daily routine, and need for balance between predicable active/quiet, social/solitary experiences, reliable transitions, and rest.
   6. Plan and demonstrate playful and creative experiences that support development and appropriate learning goals for young children including social and emotional development such as self-esteem, individuality, and peer relationships.
   7. Select and utilize educational materials within planned experiences that balance children?s, including infants and toddlers, need for growing independence and active exploration with the need for safety and health.
   8. Plan and describe developmentally appropriate learning experiences that enable children to use play as an organizer between the acquisition and use of information supporting emerging individual cognitive development.
   9. Plan and describe developmentally appropriate learning environments and experiences that provide children with opportunities to use materials in age appropriate, self-selected, self-directed ways supporting all areas of development including creative.
   10. Plan and describe how to create learning environments for primary age children that emphasize play, active manipulation of concrete materials, child choice and decision making, exploration of the environment, and interactions with others and how such environments support all areas of development.
5. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Goal Area(s) and Competencies
   
6. Learner Outcomes Assessment
   As noted on course syllabus
7. Special Information
   None noted