ECE366 TEACHING METHODS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
| Course Code: | 4110366 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 4 (3.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 6.0 |
| Department: | Early Childhood Education |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. SERAP SEVİMLİ ÇELİK, Assoc.Prof.Dr. HASİBE ÖZLEN DEMİRCAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course identifies various teaching methods that can be used in early childhood years. The course is related to application of general methodological principles to the teaching specific subject-matter, teaching and learning processes. In addition to providing an overview of the teaching methods in the field of early childhood education, the course is designed to stimulate interest, awareness, and inquiry into putting the theory into the practice. Students will critically analyze and develop a more thorough understanding of the teaching young children.
Course Content
Teaching methods that used in early childhood education; building strategic approach; collecting, scheduling, demonstrating, describing, encouraging, praising, helping, facilitating, grouping, modelling, questioning, recalling, telling and instructing, co-constructing, community building, decolonising, de- constructing, democratising, documenting, empowering, philosophizing, problem solving, scaffolding, reinforcing, task analysis.
Course Learning Outcomes
1) Students will be able to construct a strategic approach to teaching techniques.
- Students will be able to recognize the role of strategies and strategic decision in educational applications.
- Students will be able to identify the term of teaching techniques in early childhood education.
- Students will be able to understand the connection between strategic decision of education and teaching techniques.
2) Students will be able to recognize the characteristics of teaching methods for early childhood education.
- Students will be able to describe the characteristics of co-constructing, community building, deconstructing, documenting, empowering, philosophizing, problem-solving, reinforcing, scaffolding and task analysis.
- Students will be able to discuss the teaching methods in terms of goal relevance, developmental consideration and equity considerations.
- Students will be able to participate group works to discuss the teaching methods features and prepare activities by using the teaching methods.
3) Students will be able to compare and evaluate different teaching methods in terms of their strengths and limitations.
- Students will be able to identify the strengths of using the teaching methods.
- Students will be able to identify the limitations of using the teaching methods.
- Students will be able to compare the teaching methods to combine the methods for her/his educational applications.
4) Students will be able to analyze various early childhood education approaches in terms of teaching methods.
- Students will be able to examine Montessori, High Scope, Bank Street, Reggio Emilia, Waldorf and DISTAR Approaches in terms of the teaching methods.
- Students will be able to identify approach specific teaching methods and their characteristics.
- Students will be able to examine national early childhood curriculum in terms of the teaching methods.
5) Students will be able to apply the teaching methods during practical work at preschool institutions.
- Students will be able to prepare their own activity plans by using the teaching methods.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To have the knowledge about 0-72 month old children's cognitive, motor, language, social and emotional development and self help skills and to be able to make applications to support this area. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To be able to take measures for the protection of children's health. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To know the importance of game in pre-school education and to support the education and development of the child through play. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To recognize the pre-school education institutions in the scope of the purpose, structure and functioning of the Turkish education system. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To have information about classroom management approaches to be used in educational environments and to effectively implement these approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To have information about international programs that are applied in the field of pre-school education and to use these programs' aspects that are appropriate to our culture in classroom practice. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be able to conduct research in the field of pre-school education and analyze and interpret research findings. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To be able to prepare, implement and evaluate Turkish, science, math, art, music, movement, games, reading and writing preparation and field trip activities that support different areas of development (cognitive, motor, language, self-care, social and emotional) of pre-school children and can be planned as individual, small group, large group and integrated groups. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To be able to use and to allow students to use audio-visual teaching materials appropriate for pre-school age children for their development. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To be able to take responsibility and to fulfill these responsibilities in individual and group work. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | To understand the importance of family involvement in children's education and to plan activities related to family involvement. | ✔ | |||
| 12 | To have knowledge about literary genres prepared for pre-school children and to examine existing publications in terms of literary and artistic perspectives. | ✔ | |||
| 13 | To have knowledge about the importance and purpose of the use of formal and informal assessment methods appropriate for the age level and developmental level of pre-school children, and to apply and interpret different evaluation methods and to be able to interpret findings. | ✔ | |||
| 14 | To be able to follow/access, understand and question scientific publications for pre-school education. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution