ECED 197 Practicum I: Expressing Warmth to Children

Offers the student a series of tasks coupled with a weekly seminar to investigate their own actions, articulate their fundamental values to others, deeply enhance their ability to connect with young children in their care, and improve their effectiveness as teachers (NE)

Credits

3

Outcomes

1. Recognize, describe, and categorize at least 5 actions and/or attributes of young children that you value and relate them to your own indigenous cultural values.
2. Recognize, describe, and categorize adult responses to children as “approval” or “disapproval” and write a declaration of the ideal person you want to bring to children when you are with them.
3. Assess the extent to which negativity may be a habit and set one goal for change.
4. Express approval using only non-verbal signals and vocal sounds and point out at least one result on another adult, one result on a child or group of children, and one result on yourself.
5. Use factual description rather than praise, describing at least 6 specific behaviors in a factual, positive, responsive way.
6. Keep a record of and analyze your non-verbal, vocal, and descriptive expressions of warmth to children.
7. Demonstrate your understanding, use of, and results of expressing warmth to children, relating your understanding to your cultural values and identity.