ECED 365: Observation, Documentation and Monitoring

Class Program
Credits
3
Clinical Hours None
Weekly Contact Hours
4
Course ID
092512
Meets Degree Requirements For
Restricted Elective
Description

Refine skills and strategies for observing, documenting, and monitoring children who are culturally, linguistically, and ability diverse and their families. Identify and evaluate strategies for tracking student progress toward meeting IFSP outcomes, IEP goals, or 504 goals.

Grading Basis
Graded
Prerequisites

Admission into the BAS-Teaching Program and minimum 2.0 on all previous 300-level ECED and EDUC courses.

Course Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes
  1. Problem Solving: Graduates will be able to assess and analyze student learning and create learning experiences that demonstrate an understanding of how children learn and develop. Graduates will employ pedagogical knowledge in a variety of areas, including classroom management, teaching through experiential learning, and effective planning, to create inclusive learning environments.

  2. Inquiry: Graduates will be able to research and apply current pedagogical theories, to include theories of language use and language acquisition with a specific focus on the language demand of academic content, to design curricula.

Program Learning Outcomes
  1. Problem Solving: Graduates will be able to assess and analyze student learning and create learning experiences that demonstrate an understanding of how children learn and develop. Graduates will employ pedagogical knowledge in a variety of areas, including classroom management, teaching through experiential learning, and effective planning, to create inclusive learning environments.

  2. Inquiry: Graduates will be able to research and apply current pedagogical theories, to include theories of language use and language acquisition with a specific focus on the language demand of academic content, to design curricula.

Program Learning Outcomes
  1. Problem Solving: Graduates will be able to assess and analyze student learning and create learning experiences that demonstrate an understanding of how children learn and develop. Graduates will employ pedagogical knowledge in a variety of areas, including classroom management, teaching through experiential learning, and effective planning, to create inclusive learning environments.

Program Learning Outcomes
  1. Problem Solving: Graduates will be able to assess and analyze student learning and create learning experiences that demonstrate an understanding of how children learn and develop. Graduates will employ pedagogical knowledge in a variety of areas, including classroom management, teaching through experiential learning, and effective planning, to create inclusive learning environments.

  2. Communication: Graduates will be able to effectively and appropriately interact with students through oral and written communication. Graduates will be able to utilize oral and written communication skills to collaborate and interact with colleagues, parents, administration, and community members.

Program Learning Outcomes
  1. Social Interaction: Graduates will be able to integrate culturally responsive teaching practices in their learning environments. Graduates will be able to integrate cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity into the daily curriculum.

Program Learning Outcomes
  1. Problem Solving: Graduates will be able to assess and analyze student learning and create learning experiences that demonstrate an understanding of how children learn and develop. Graduates will employ pedagogical knowledge in a variety of areas, including classroom management, teaching through experiential learning, and effective planning, to create inclusive learning environments.

  2. Social Interaction: Graduates will be able to integrate culturally responsive teaching practices in their learning environments. Graduates will be able to integrate cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity into the daily curriculum.

Core Topics

  1. Individual and whole class self-assessment and goal setting
  2. Development of 504 plans, Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), and Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs)
  3. Classroom management strategies
  4. Types of Observation (formal, informal)
  5. Data Collection for Creating and Monitoring Goals