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ECE 313 Child Development

Mon & Wed 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. EdS 130

This course examines theoretical and empirical research along with practical experience relating to young children. Cognitive, physical, social, and affective developmental domains are explored and implications for curriculum design and learning environments are drawn.

NEW!: 313 Syllabus .pdf / 313 Syllabus .rtf / Tentative Course Schedule .rtf

Required Text: Trawick-Smith, Jeffrey. (2006). Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural Perspective (4th edition). Boston: Prentice Hall. Publisher's Website: www.prenhall.com/trawick

Poems, Songs, Nursery Rhymes The Spirit of Adult Play .ppt

Our guest on M 09/14 was Juanita Lambino. She invites you to her class at L. P. Waters EC Center. 2504 Carver Street, Greenville TX 75401, 903-457-2680.

Media Reaction Paper Rubric .rtf

And forward

Domains of Development Evaluation .ppt

313/DomainEvaluation.xls

Big Jobs: Planning for Competence

Defining Success

Fulgham Kindergarten .ppt

Mid-term course review

Toddler Creed .ppt

Infant Cry .ppt

Getting Started

Our course is web-enhanced through eCollege. There are different routes into eCollege; most people go through their myLeo home page. Here is my favorite shortcut straight into eCollege: http://online.tamuc.org/. Please take time to set up your computer system by running this browser test: http://online.tamuc.org/index.learn?action=technical. In general, I prefer using the Mozilla Firefox browser, current version 3.5.2. For most eCollege applications though, it seems to prefer Internet Explorer 7.

Become familiar with our course textbook publisher’s website: http://www.prenhall.com/trawick. Many, many resources are built within that website, including quizzes which we will utilize frequently. You may want to set up your own profile in chapter 1, using my name: Josh Thompson, and email: Josh_Thompson@tamu-commerce.edu, as Instructor. Send as plain text.

Specifically for our Child Development course, I require you to enroll in http://www.learner.org. Specific assignments will come along later. We will also utilize resources from http://naeyc.org, http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/ and http://www.zerotothree.org.