Course Syllabus

Teaching Young Children

Mrs. Bender

Rm. 111/ Child Lab

e-mail: benderk@wellesleyps.org

The Teaching Young Children (TYC) course focuses on the study of developmental expectations for children birth to 5 years, in order to prepare students for direct contact teaching in the Child Lab School. Students will learn and have practice with the expected developmental milestones for young children, importance of play, lesson and activity planning, and classroom management skills. Students will prepare for actual involvement with the children through course study and planning lessons for several areas including literacy, creative arts, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, math). Upon successful completion of this course students will have created a portfolio of activities that they may use when they participate in Child Study Lab.

Materials: Each student will need a 1/2” binder, 3 hole punched notebook paper, markers, scissors, gluestick

The use of cell phones and headphones are prohibited in Rm. 111 and the Child Lab classroom.

Course Topics:

Development of children ages 0-5 years old

Importance of play

Literacy 

Creative Arts 

STEM 

Media

Lesson Planning

Classroom management

Grading: The course will be based on a total of 100 points. 

10 - Participation: question of the day, discussion, exit tickets

10- Quiz on developmental domains and milestones of children ages 3-5

10- Quiz on lesson planning

10- Media analysis

20- Children’s book activity

20 - Group project and presentation

20- Final project: Plan a Day in Child Lab