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Curriculum & Instruction EDCI Where Teachers Come to Learn

Dr Josh Thompson

Josh_Thompson@TAMU-Commerce.edu

903-468-8627

ECE 364 Survey of Theories Influencing Childhood Development  
Syllabus .doc Schedule .rtf Requirements .doc Resource Links
Required Text: Morrison, G. S. (2007). Early Childhood Education Today (10th ed.) Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Merrill Prentice Hall. http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_morrison_earlychild_10
Observation Letter to Schools .doc

Criminal Background form .pdf

Observation Guidelines .rtf

Page last edited on Wednesday, January 27, 2010

1/16 2:00pm First Class EdSouth 135 Bring your Morrison textbook

CHANGE: Do NOT Register for Early Field Experience.

Spring 2008 schedules will be dropped on Tuesday, January 22 for students who have not paid the balance due on their accounts.  Please check the status of your accounts on MyLeo.  It is available 24/7 at https://leo.tamu-commerce.edu/login.aspx.  If you need assistance to pay the balance, please see the Loan Office (903-886-5051).
1/23 Read (a lot!) Morrison chapters 1, 3, 9-12 (scan), and Appendix A

Center for Educator Certification & Academic Services 

Field-Based Teacher Education Program Application Website:  https://www.tamu-commerce.edu/teacher/field/FBInfo.asp

For Fall 2008 Intern or Intern/Resident Placement, the deadline for

submitting your (complete) application to Ed North, 205, is (Tuesday) January 29, 2008.

NAEYC Principles of Development .ppt

Ethics in Early Childhood Education .ppt

Glossary of Terms Related to Ethics.doc

“Makin’ a List, Checkin’ it Twice, Gonna Find Out Who’s . . .ppt

364/ObservationGuidelines.rtf

http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jthompson/Resources/Montessori%20DFW%20Contacts.htm

2/13
David Elkind summarizes Piaget stages: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fcjPkPIwsog

Enjoy this view of Becka (?) age 7 and Emily, age 4 playing with conservation of liquid, conservation of area, and jokes http://youtube.com/watch?v=MpREJIrpgv8 

Think of what all would go into a video about Vygotsky.

3/5

Read Morrison, chapters 6 & 7 EC Programs and Childcare

Montessori Beginnings - read Morrison, chap 2, pp 140 - 150. View the Montessori clip on the Morrison DVD. Eight Principles of Montessori Education .ppt. Webpage of Montessori resources http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/jthompson/Resources/Montessori%20DFW%20Contacts.htm.

Poem about Reggio Emilia Malaguzzi (1990) No Way! The Hundred is There. Article about Reggio Emilia and Montessori Thompson (2004) Hundred Language Zoo.

Draft of revisions to DAP http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/draftdap0208.asp

3/12  
3/26
 

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ed_init/pkguidelines/PrekGuidelinesDraft_030508_001.pdf

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ed_init/pkguidelines/PKGResponseForm.doc

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ed_init/pkguidelines/PKGResponseFormProcedures.pdf

 
4/2 Notes from Ms Norma Morris' visit - all about Montessori

http://lakelandacademy.org/

Pedersen, & Pedersen (2008) What is Montessori? Sandpiper Press. http://sandpiperpress.com/publications.cfm

Online Montessori Teacher Preparation http://www.guidedstudies.com/

Pre-school - 8th Grade http://www.westwoodschool.org/
4/9
Response to Montessori - where next?

Response to Classroom Observations?

Technology - do the WebQuest in eCollege: Chapter 13: Discussion

1. Choose a key word on the list.

2. a. Create a Webquest, with at least three pertinent links. Post on the discussion board. (Look here for information on how to create a keyword webquest: http://webquest.org/index.php and http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designsteps/index.html). And it's first come, first serve: choose a key word and create a webquest for it, to explore the keyword. Due by Friday, April 11.

AND

2. b. Come back after Friday and respond to someone's webquest - follow every link, complete pertinent activities. Return to the discussion board and post your reflection on the success of the webquest.

Here is Exam II .rtf Due by Wednesday, 4/16.

4/16 Advocacy Paper - NEW due date: Wednesday 4/23

Guidance - Twelve Operating Principles that Lead to High-quality Classrooms.ppt

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

f2f: Moral Development

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AsSeenOnGMA/story?id=4602938&page=1
4/23
No Class this Wednesday

Your Advocacy Letter is due on Wednesday, 4/23. You may drop it off at the EDCI office, EdSouth 201, or email it to me. The resources I talked about in class are now in the Gee Library: Reserve: under my name, including sample letters.

4/30

For Wednesday, April 30, read Morrison chapters 15 & 16. All work is accepted until Wednesday, April 30. No late work is accepted after Wednesday, April 30.

5/7 Exam III Wednesday, May 7, 2pm-4pm.

 

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