ECE 460 Early Childhood Curriculum
Mondays & Wednesday 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. EDS 130
This course emphasizes an integrated approach to early childhood curriculum development for young children. Relates early childhood pedagogy, research, and content area knowledge to thematic and inquiry curriculum design.
Syllabus .pdf Syllabus .rtf Schedule .rtf Requirements .rtf
Required Text: Brewer, Jo Ann (2007). Introduction to Early Childhood Education: Preschool through Primary Grades (6th ed.) Boston: Pearson. Publisher's textbook website: http://www.ablongman.com/brewer6e
Poems, Songs, Nursery Rhymes The Spirit of Adult Play .ppt
Resources used in class
for 10/28
https://www.englishspanishteks.net/
10/26
http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/rb/research-brief2.pdf
http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/evidence.pdf
10/19
TExES EC-4 Practice Exam Score Analysis .doc
TExES Preparation Manual 191_Generalist_EC-6 .pdf
10/12
Create an integrated teaching unit .ppt
09/28
What did we learn at the Museum?
Hundred Language Zoo Webs .ppt
Create an integrated teaching unit .ppt
09/21
Projects approach http://www.learner.org/vod/login.html?pid=1332
09/14
Nair 2005 Schools - Good for Children? .ppt
Thompson (2004) Hundred Language Zoo.
09/09
TExES Gen EC-6 Prep Manual http://www.texes.ets.org/assets/pdf/testprep_manuals/191_generalist_ec_6.pdf
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.ablongman.com/brewer6e. 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 Curriculum course, I require you to enroll in www.naeyc.org/torch, to access the NAEYC Standards, and http://www.learner.org for excellent videos of classrooms. Specific assignments will come along later. You must become an expert at navigating these three Texas Education Agency TEA websites: Texas Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/prek_guide/01intro01.htm; Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills TEKS http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/index.html; English Language Proficiency Standards ELPS http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter074/ch074a.html#74.4
Standards and Criteria
http://www.naeyc.org/academy/primary/standardsintro
Register at http://www.naeyc.org/torch to gain access to the NAEYC Standards
Texas Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/prek_guide/01intro01.htm
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills TEKS http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/index.html
English Language Proficiency Standards ELPS http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter074/ch074a.html#74.4
TExES Gen EC-6 Prep Manual http://www.texes.ets.org/assets/pdf/testprep_manuals/191_generalist_ec_6.pdf
Observation of Children & Programs
Early Field Experience [note: you do not need to register at this site. It is provided here as a reference to best practice: http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/teacher/efe/efemain.asp
Observation Letter to Schools .doc
MicroEthnography Observation .htm
Projects approach http://www.learner.org/vod/login.html?pid=1332
Ethics of ECE
http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/pseth98.asp
Ethics in Early Childhood Education .ppt
Glossary of Terms Related to Ethics .doc
Use the ethical dilemmas in each chapter to practice and review.
Also, look in the publisher's webpage: http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_morrison_earlychild_10
History & Theory of ECE
From Morrison chap 4 & 5, some breeze presentations by Stephen Garretson
http://breeze.tamu-commerce.edu/p33197078
http://breeze.tamu-commerce.edu/theory
Videos of classrooms & teachers coping with change and growth as professionals:
Minds of Their Own http://www.learner.org/resources/series26.html# VoD #3 Under Construction
Looking at Learning http://www.learner.org/resources/series106.html# VoD #1 Many faces of learning
Montessori
Contact
Phone: 903-468-8627
Fax: 903-468-5997
Email: Josh_Thompson@TAMU-Commerce.edu
Office: Ed South 221
Department of Curriculum &
Instruction
Texas A&M University-Commerce
P.O. Box 3011
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
