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Retired Credit Recommendations - Teacher Training Program

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• Titles of all evaluated learning experiences in the Retired Credit Recommendations-Teacher Training Program section

• Descriptions and credit recommendations

Titles, descriptions, and credit recommendations for all learning experiences recommended for college credit within the Retired Credit Recommendations - Teacher Training Program section can be found below. To locate information on additional learning experiences, which have also been recommended for college credit, use the Organization Directory Page link above for a complete list of titles for all learning experiences or use the following links to go directly to other sections: 

Teacher Training Program
Optional Courses

Titles of all evaluated learning experiences in the Retired Credit Recommendations - Teacher Training Program section

NOTE:  During the period that the following credit recommendations were active, credit is recommended only after an individual has successfully completed the entire program.

Classroom Management (retired)
Early Childhood Curriculum OR Principles and Practices of Montessori Education
Early Childhood Development - Birth Through Age 5
Supervised Practicum/Field Experience (retired)

Descriptions and credit recommendations

Classroom Management (retired)
Location: Various child care facilities associated with the Caritas Training Center.
Length: 45 hours.
Dates:  April 1996 - June 2001.
Objectives:  Organize and maintain a developmentally appropriate learning environment including all aspects of planning, record keeping, observation, team building, and maintenance for the pre-school classroom.
Instruction: Starting the year; arrangement of the classroom; discipline/positive guidance techniques; health and safety procedures; program planning; record keeping; team building; and maintenance.
Credit recommendation: In the lower  division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 1 semester hour in Early Childhood Education or Child Care (5/99).

Early Childhood Curriculum OR Principles and Practices of Montessori Education
Location: Various child care facilities associated with the Caritas Training Center.
Length: Minimum 240 hours.
Dates:  April 1996 - June 2001.
Objectives:  Discuss the theoretical foundations of early childhood curriculum development and their implementation in the early childhood classroom in a developmentally appropriate manner; organize and integrate the following curriculum areas into classroom practice: art, music, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and science; determine when to present appropriate manipulative materials to support each of the curriculum areas.
Instruction:  The curriculum addresses how to engage children in developmentally appropriate ways with individual, small group, and whole group instruction and emphasizes how to manage the transition between activities. Art: materials and media, i.e., crayon, pencil drawing, clay, water color, sculpture, etc.; Music: listening, following directions, appreciation, recognition, group participation in songs, movement games, instrument making, etc.; Math: 0 to 10 materials, teens and tens, decimal system, and addition; Language Arts: pre-writing exercises, language patterning sequence, visual discrimination, initial sounds, phonetic sounds, phonograms, grammar games, literature and poetry for pre-schoolers; Social Studies: sensorial perception of the concept of time, basic human needs, and vastness of history, sensorial age appropriate experience with maps, flags, landforms, habitats and cultures, child’s body awareness and relationship to the world; Science: health, nutrition, human body, solar system, rocks, plants, and animals; Manipulatives: helping the child to function in his/her own environment, increase attention span, develop self-discipline, and refine gross and fine motor skills through practical life activities; developmentally appropriate sensorial materials involving matching, sorting, and discrimination.
Credit recommendation: In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 3 semester hours in Early Childhood Education or Child Care (5/99).

Early Childhood Development - Birth Through Age 5
Location: Various child care facilities associated with the Caritas Training Center.
Length: 75 hours.
Dates:  April 1996 - June 2001.
Objectives: Recognize landmarks of development in the birth to 3 year old child and use techniques of observation in tracking a child’s development; recognize the different developmental stages of the older toddler and the preschooler in the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional areas; select and provide the child with developmentally appropriate activities for each age and each stage of growth; identify developmental problems and provide appropriate activities for children with special needs; discuss the child’s place in the family and the need to involve families in the child’s healthy development.
Instruction: Infant and toddler development; emotional, physical, cognitive, and social landmarks; milestones of development; observation techniques; suggested materials for developmentally appropriate activities; theories of development; the child in the family; exceptional children; toddlerhood: physical, cognitive and emotional development; preschoolers: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development; play; moral development; self-identify and sex roles; Montessori philosophy and method.
Credit recommendation:  In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 3 semester hours in Early Childhood Education or Child Care (5/99).

Supervised Practicum/Field Experience (retired)
Location: Various child care facilities associated with the Caritas Training Center
Length: Minimum 90 hours of supervised practicum/field experience.
Dates: April 1996 - June 2001.
Objectives:  Carry out developmentally appropriate activities in an actual classroom setting based on the concepts, philosophy, and approach presented in the lecture; write and implement appropriate lesson plans for each curriculum area.
Instruction:  Under the direct observation and supervision of a head teacher, the students observe children and write assignments relating their observations to class discussion, engage children in developmentally appropriate activities, read articles and textual materials, keep a journal, and view videos to support the concepts, philosophy, and approach presented in the lecture.
Credit recommendation:  In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 3 semester hours as a supervised field experience or internship in Early Childhood Education or Child Care (5/99).

Updated 8/14/07

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