Bachelors Degree - Early Care & Education

2024 Fall Course Info
Child Development - Birth To 3 (Infant/Toddler)Professional DevelopmentPracticum II - Curriculum Development and ImplementationTechnology and Young ChildrenUnderstanding and Adapting for Developmental DifferencesDevelopment of Curriculum for Children Ages Birth to 3Assessing Young Children and their Environments to Enhance DevelopmentPracticum III - Capstone Experience
2024 Summer Course Info
Health, Safety, and NutritionWorking with Families
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Course Information
Development of Curriculum for Children Ages Birth to 3
Course Description
In this course, university students (1) learn and use assessment and documentation to inform curriculum, (2) plan and evaluate developmentally appropriate activities, and (3) learn about effective ways to share curriculum information with families. This course addresses all areas of developmental domains and content areas. The course includes issues related to diversity in family composition, culture, and individual abilities.
Contacts
Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

Textbooks

Endless Opportunities for Infant and Toddler Curriculum: A relationship based approach
Petersen, S. & Wittmer, D.
Edition: 2nd 2013
ISBN: 10: 0-13-261312-3
Publisher: Pearson Education Upper Saddle River, NJ

Developmentally appropriate practice: focus on Infants and Toddlers
Copple, C., Bredekamp, S., Koralek, D., & Charner, K.
Edition: (Eds.) (2013)
Publisher: Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children

Course Access
 
Approximately three weeks prior to the beginning of the semester, students will receive preliminary course information from the Oklahoma State campus coordinator listed below. One week prior to the beginning of the semester, students will receive an email with their login name and password. OSU's online courses are facilitated by Canvas.
 
Brianna Cooper-Kordinak for Agricultural Education, Animal Science, and Grassland Management. 
Rae Ann Montgomery for Dietetics, Early Care & Education, Family & Community Services, Family & Consumer Sciences Education, Family Financial Planning, Gerontology, and Merchandising. 
Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Faculty
University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.
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Hannah Adame's headshotAs a full-time high school Ag teacher, FFA Advisor, and two-sport coach, I excelled in the flexibility and structure of the Great Plains IDEA program. This program has allowed me to balance my school workload with my profession and responsibilities at the school. I have also benefited from the ability to apply what I am learning to my classroom and have shared my teaching experiences with classmates to create an integrated, immersive learning experience for others and myself.

– – Hannah Adame, Family and Consumer Sciences Education Graduate,
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