Child Development
Course Description: This course examines theoretical and empirical research along with practical experience relating to young children. Physical, Language, Aesthetic, Cognitive, Emotional, and Social (P.L.A.C.E.S.) developmental domains are explored and implications for curriculum design and learning environments are drawn.
Welcome to our online early childhood education course on Child Development and Observation.
Syllabus posted here soon, and course schedule.
You are invited to PLAY! to celebrate learning about the amazing early language learners, and how to become the best teachers for young Texans. My twitter handle is @billyjoshtex and my LinkedIn id is Josh Thompson, Ph.D.
Required textbook: link to free online textbook posted here soon.
Option resource, graduate-level text: Berk, L. (2019). Exploring Child Development. Pearson.======
Start with what we know of the child. Picture her in her glory. Watch him as he grows. Know him as he wants to be known.
Let's follow some leads, some trends in Child Development to dig deeper:
http://faculty.tamuc.edu/jthompson/313/development.pptDevelopmentally Appropriate Practice
Domains of Development
Ages and Stages or Waves & Cycles
Montessori Planes of Development
ASSOCIATIONS/RESOURCES:
Annenberg Media (2005). www.Learner.org.
ASCD. (2013). Whole Child Indicators. Available online at www.wholechildeducation.org/assets/content/mx-resources/wholechildindicators-all.pdf
ASCD. (2016). Whole Child Podcast: Changing the Conversation about Education; available on the first Thursday of every month; listen to archived episodes. Learn more about how we can work at the local, state, and federal levels to ensure that each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Subscribe now: www.ascd.org/ASCD/XML/wholechild/whole_child_rss.xml
CCIE. (2016). Exchange Everyday. Redmond, WA: Childcare Information Exchange. Delivered five days a week containing news, success stories, solutions, trend reports, and much more. Enroll in ExchangeEveryDay, a daily electronic newsletter all about early childhood education. This will help you keep up-to-date with all things topical and pertinent in early childhood education. ExchangeEveryDay is the official electronic newsletter for ChildCareExchange.com. It will be delivered to you five days a week bringing news stories, success stories, solutions, trend reports, and much more. To subscribe to ExchangeEveryDay, a free daily e-newsletter, go to www.ccie.com/eed.
Dallas Association for the Education of Young Children. www.dallasaeyc.org.
National Association for the Education of Young Children. (2009). Developmentally Appropriate Practice. Washington, DC: NAEYC. Available online: www.naeyc.org/positionstatements/dap. See also http://faculty.tamuc.edu/jthompson/313/development.ppt.
Petty, Karen. (2010). Developmental Milestones. Minneapolis: Redleaf Press. ISBN 9781605540054
Society for Research in Child Development. Child Development. www.srcd.org.
Southern Association for the Education of Young Children. Dimensions of Early Childhood. www.southernearlychildhood.org.
Texas Association for the Education of Young Children. (2016). Special Issue on Pathways to Becoming an Early Childhood Professional. Early Years: Journal of Texas Association for the Education of Young Children (member benefit). Austin, Texas: TAEYC. Membership available online at www.texasaeyc.org.
Texans Care for Children. (2009). A Parent’s Guide to Raising Happy Children. Available online: www.raisingtexas.com/resources-2/early-child-guide/.
Texas Early Learning Council. (2013). Little Texans, Big Futures: Your Early Learning Guide for Infants, Toddlers, and Three-Year-Olds. Available online: http://earlylearningtexas.org/itelg.aspx.
Texas Education Agency (TEA). (2016) Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). http://tea.texas.gov/index2.aspx?id=6148.
Wood, Chip. (2007). Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 (3rd ed.). Turner Falls, MA: Northeast Foundation for Children. ISBN: 1892989190
ZERO TO THREE’s monthly e-newsletter, which delivers research, parenting tips and tricks, and fun playtime activities right to your inbox each month. Subscribe now: https://www.zerotothree.org/connect
Observation of Children in the Field
Interpreting Observations .htm
Interpreting Observations .ppt
Development
Principles of Development .ppt
Joanne Hendricks The Whole Child: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years http://www.learner.org/resources/series59.html#
Moral Development http://www.moraledk12.org/
Theorists
A Linear View of Theorists.doc
Research
Children from Hard Places
Momentous Institute, in Oak Cliff http://momentousinstitute.org/about
Karen Purvis TBRI Trust Based Relational Intervention http://child.tcu.edu/resources/videos/
Resources
(Let me know of any missing or broken links)
We will not use all of these, but they are interesting and informative to our objectives for this course on Child Development.
www.PBS.org/WholeChild/
Touch & Play in Development - Dr. Karen Purvis on KERA Think http://video.kera.org/video/1208511389/program/1100712391%3Cspan
Growing up Different www.pbs.org
http://www.WholeChildEducation.org
ASCD The Whole Child Compact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTRKHR-6i3k
Healthy Marriage Healthy Family
Healthy Marriage Initiative ACF HHS .gov
What is 'Healthy Marriage'? .pdf
Harvard Family Research Project
Nat'l Council on Family Relations
Nat'l Network of Partnership Schools
PTA 2009 National Standards for Family-School Partnerships
Men in the Lives of Children
Why Children Need Father-Love and Mother-Love .ppt
www.MenTeach.org
Men in Early Childhood Care & Education New Zealand
