ECYD 1235 - Guiding Young Children

3 Credits
This course examines the positive, developmentally appropriate strategies used to guide children’s behavior and support social and emotional development during early childhood. The course examines the multiple influences on child behavior as well asstrategies to support self-regulation and peer relationships during early childhood.To complete assignments in this class, students are required to spend approximately 10 hours per semester outside of class time observing and interacting with younchildren in community-based early childhood programs.NOTE: This course requires a MN OHS criminal background study including fingerprints.

Learning Outcomes
Plan environments where young children are able to explore and expand peer relationships.

Articulate a philosophy of guidance that supports improved student outcomes and reduced exclusionary practices by describing relationship-based, culturally affirming and proactive approaches used by early childhood professionals.

Plan developmentally appropriate routines, transitions, schedules, interaction sequences, and prosocial teaching strategies and tools in work with children from infancy through the primary years.

Plan experiences in which children learn to express emotions in positive ways, solve problems, and make decisions including self-regulation and calming strategies.

Create appropriate social and emotional goals for young children including assessing social and emotional development in children from infancy through the primary years.

Explain the use of preventive strategies in developmentally appropriate guidance.

Explain the importance of communication with colleagues and families to provide consistency in guidance.

Label consequences and antecedents of behaviors and predict their effect on behaviors.

Identify influences on child behavior including the developmental characteristics of children from infant through the primary years, environmental factors, development of self-regulation, stress and trauma, resilience, temperament, culture, and presence of supportive relationships.

Describe the importance of early childhood mental health including creating in each child a sense of belonging, security, personal worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence toward learning.