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ECE 313.01E crn 20008 Child Development

Mon & Wed 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EdS 134

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 PROFESSOR: Mrs. Lydia Leeds SNLLeeds@yahoo.com Syllabus & Schedule

Required Text: Trawick-Smith, Jeffrey. (2010). Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural Perspective (5th edition). Boston: Prentice Hall.

eText ISBN-10: 0-13-501652-5

eText ISBN-13: 978-0-13-501652-7

Print ISBN-10: 0-13-501646-0

Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-501646-6

Publisher's Website: www.prenhall.com/trawick This website is for the 4th edition, but we will use it for now.

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 3.5.6. For most eCollege applications though, it seems to prefer Internet Explorer 8.

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.