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
Professional Development
Course Description
This course explores the role of a professional as a teacher, administrator, or advocate in early childhood programming. Students learn about professionalism and ethics, identifying child abuse, and applying universal precautions. Additional topics are qualities of the early childhood educator, program models, working with children, and working with professional colleagues. During this course, students will meet with the Practicum Coordinator and begin preparations for the practicum experiences.
Contacts
Instructor

Nikki Huckabay
Office: 405-744-5057
nikki.huckabay@okstate.edu

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

Ethics and the Early Childhood Educator: Using the NAEYC Code
Stephanie Feeney
Edition: 3rd
ISBN: 10 : 1938113330
Publisher: The National Association for the Education of Young Children

Professionalism in early childhood education: Doing our best for young children
Stephanie Feeney
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 13: 978-013706470
Publisher: Pearson

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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Shannon Spencer is a graduate student in the agricultural education program.The Great Plains IDEA program has allowed me the flexibility to continue my education while also being a full-time extension agent and mother to twin boys. The program has given me the opportunity to interact with students and teaching professionals from various universities that I may have never met. This program has allowed me to focus not only on my education but also on my profession and family and for that, I will be forever grateful.

– – Shannon Spencer, Agricultural Education Master's Degree Student,
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