Teaching Early Childhood
(ages 4 - 6)
A 40-hour course prepares teachers to gain the necessary knowledge of the different theories about child development and the factors that affect learning.
It helps the teachers to
Make their classrooms more engaging & successful;
Learn how to motivate students without rewards and competition
Assess and grade cooperative learning
Course Content
How children learn
How to plan instruction
Kagan: Cooperative Learning
How to observe, document and evaluate
Teaching Phonics, reading and writing
The features of the learning environment
Course Modules
Module One: How children learn and features of the learning environment
Description
You will gain the necessary knowledge of the different theories about child development and the factors that affect learning. You will build an overall view on how to support young children through different pedagogical practices. You will gain a better understanding of the meaning and importance of socio emotional development and the importance of peer relationships for young children’s development and learning.
Course Duration: 3 Hours
Details
- Behavioral Skinner
- Cognitive Piaget
- Sociocultural Vygotsky
- Physical Development
- Social and emotional
- development
- Learning environment
Module Two: How to plan instruction
Description
You will gain a basic understanding of various pedagogical elements in early childhood education, and what the variables affect the choices teachers make. You will deepen your
understanding of the importance of integrating critical thinking & problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity & innovation within the early childhood classroom.
Course Duration: 10 Hours
Details
- Classroom Management
- Collaborative Inquiry-Based Learning
- Active Learning
- Learning through play
- Transversal skills
- Curriculum Mapping
- Lesson Planning
Module Three: How to observe, document and evaluate
Description
You will focus on observation areas, methods and tools and documentation practices and the significance of self evaluation concerning early childhood education.
Course Duration: 3 Hours
Details
- An overview of assessment in early childhood
- Formal assessment in early childhood education
- Informal assessment in early childhood education
Module Four: Phonics, reading and writing
Description
You will focus on observation areas, methods and tools and documentation practices and the significance of self evaluation concerning early childhood education.
Course Duration: 7 Hours
Details
- Phonics, why and how
- Key elements in Synthetic Phonics & language development
- Explaining & tackling irregularity
- Phonics & spelling
- Techniques for weak readers
- Scaffolding Reading literature/ stories
- Scaffolding Writing
Module Five: Kagan: Cooperative Learning
Description
You will learn about cooperative learning; why it works; how it makes your classroom more engaging & successful; how to plan for it; what teaching techniques to use and how; motivating students without rewards and competition; and how to assess and grade cooperative learning.
Course Duration: 17 Hours
Details
- Cooperative Learning
- Case Studies
- Theories: cooperative learning; classical learning; social learning; brain-based learning; motivation
- Key 1: Structures
- Key 2: Teams
- Key 3: Management
- Key 4: Classbuilding
- Key 5: Teambuilding
- Key 6: Social Skills
- 10.Key 7: Basic Principles “PIES”
- 11.Cooperative Projects &
- presentations
- Planning Cooperative Lessons 13. Assessment & Grading
- Motivation without rewards and competition