Overview
您在幼儿教育学位课程的经验为您提供了支持幼儿积极学习经验的知识和技能. 通过课程和三次实习, 你将参与真正的幼儿环境,这将为你在该领域的各种职位做好准备.
Why Great Bay?
- Grants, Scholarships, 教学援助-幼儿教育计划现在通过助学金和奖学金为在实地工作的教师提供学费援助的机会.
- 经验丰富的教师和高素质的人才, 在社区实习的指导教师提供了将大学课堂学习付诸行动的现实生活机会
- Partnerships for practicum placements located throughout Rockingham and Strafford County.
- Student starting in the ECE Certificate or Advanced Certificate can apply credits towards the degree at any point
Career Options
- Lead teacher or associate teacher in child care program
- 先行教师
- 一个儿童保育项目的中心主任
- Site director for before and after school program serving children K-6
- 在公立学校当兼职教师
- Paraprofessional in special education preschool or early intervention infant/toddler program
Related Degrees
转学分政策
此外,大湾转让信用政策, 自入学之日起超过五年的幼儿教育课程转学将由项目协调员根据个人情况进行评估.
与教师和项目协调员会面 |
助学金和奖学金机会
幼儿教育 students are currently eligible for up to four (4) free classes each semester, 包括书籍和费用.
Learn more about CCSNH幼儿资助计划.
T.E.A.C.H. 幼儿期NH:
T.E.A.C.H. 早期儿童新罕布什尔州提供全面的奖学金,使早期教育能够参加课程,从而获得学位,使他们有可能负担上学的时间和费用.
幼儿学徒计划:
幼儿学徒计划结合了大学教育和工作经验,在提高学徒技能水平和工资的同时,提高了对儿童的照顾质量.
WIOA Program:
The 幼儿教育 Degree Program is approved for funding through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Program. 这可以包括多达 $6,500 学费补助和 $1,500 of support services that can help eliminate various barriers to employment.
Curriculum Outline
所需的课程和课程作业如下:
第一年:秋季学期
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ECE100G | 儿童早期生长发育 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
ENGL110G / 111G | 大学作文一 / 大学比较1与实验室 | 4 | 0/2 | 4/5 |
MATH145G | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
OR | ||||
MATH147G | 定量推理+ | 5 | 0 | 5 |
ECEXXXG | 幼儿教育选修* | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Total Credits | 14-16 |
第一年:春季学期
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ECE112G | 欧洲经委会课程规划与环境 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
ENGLXXXG | English Elective | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Science Elective | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
社会科学选修课 | 3 | 0 | 3-4 | |
ECE206G | 支持有特殊需要的儿童 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
OR | ||||
(EDUP101) | 异常介绍 | (3) | (0) | (3) |
Total Credits | 17-18 |
第一年总学分: 31-32
第二年:秋季学期
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ECE202G | 高级实习:学生教学 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Foreign Language/Humanities/美术选修课 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
ECEXXXG | 幼儿教育选修* | 3 | 0 | 3 |
ECEXXXG | 幼儿教育选修* | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Open Elective** | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Total Credits | 15 |
第二年:春季学期
Course ID | Course | Theory | Lab | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
ECE210G | 儿童、家庭和社区关系 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
ECE212G | 高级实习:专业发展 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
ECEXXXG | 幼儿教育选修* | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Open Elective** | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Open Elective** | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
Total Credits | 15 |
Theory, lab, and credit hours may vary depending on the elective course chosen.
*ECEXXX: ECE109, ECE116, ECE200, ECE203, ECE204, ECE214 or EDUP215, ECE250
**Open Elective may be any college credit course, including ECE courses.
总学分: 61-64
项目具体要求
参加ECE课程的学生必须表现出情绪稳定,能够承受不断变化的环境,并能够在儿童早期环境中快速、适当地做出反应.
Students are also expected to have the maturity to accept direction and guidance, 进行合理的判断, and maintain confidentiality and sensitive interpersonal relationships with teachers, fellow students, 儿童及家庭.
招生标准
All students are welcome to enroll in Early Childhood classes; however, 在入读ECE112G时, ECE202G and ECE212G where field placements are required, 他们必须能够满足该领域的技术标准和新罕布什尔州儿童保育许可局对儿童保育人员的健康和背景调查的要求. 建议学生在进入ECE课程时开始背景调查过程,如果还没有在NH儿童保育计划中工作. 更多信息请见系主任.
建议有特殊需求的学生在录取过程中与项目协调员讨论具体的职业目标,这些住宿可能会影响他们的实习安置或就业选择.
技术标准
已经建立了技术标准,为学生提供在欧洲经委会项目和最终职业中成功运作所需的技能和能力的洞察力. 觉得自己不能成功满足这些要求的申请人应在申请该项目之前联系欧洲经委会项目协调员.
Students enrolling in the 幼儿教育 program must have sufficient strength, stamina, 运动协调, 和感官能力来完成以下任务:
•站立一段持续的时间, walking, running, bending, sitting on the floor and on child-size furniture to meet the child’s needs and accomplish tasks.
• Frequent lifting, moving and transferring children, especially infants and toddlers.
•足够的视觉和听觉灵敏度,以确保安全的环境和对儿童的快速反应能力, colleagues, and professional partners in the event of an emergency.
•有足够的语言能力表达和交流信息和想法,以及解释来自儿童的重要指示, 同事和家长.
•有足够的书面表达能力,准确记录孩子的日常进展和里程碑,以及给药, 意外及怀疑虐待/忽视儿童报告, etc.
能够在经常被打断的情况下工作, 在意外情况下作出适当的反应, and to cope with extreme variations in workload and stress levels.
•学生必须有可靠的交通工具往返于实习场所,并保持健康,如儿童护理人员健康表所述,以履行实习合同中约定的时间承诺.
能够对孩子的个人需求做出反应, 包括换尿布, in a manner that safeguards the health and safety of the student, children, and staff.
•能够以专业和尊重的方式与不同种族的儿童及其家庭一起工作, cultures, religions, and ethnicities as well as children with a wide range of disabling conditions.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries in both the school and home environments.
• Ability and disposition to adhere to and practice the 道德操守守则 set forth by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
健康、安全和实习考虑
•在参加ECE112G或高级实习之前,如果没有完成工作设置的现场时间,则需要在部门主席处存档GBCC健康表.
•需要的新罕布什尔州儿童护理人员健康表格,表明学生没有明显的健康问题,将禁止他/她在实习前照顾孩子.
• Required background check of “clear” or “non-disqualifying” prior to practicum. The cost of the record check and fingerprinting is the responsibility of the student.
• Completion of practicum hours during regular morning hours in order to meet the course requirements.
• Transportation to and from the practicum site is the responsibility of the student.
• Participation in an internship requires the student to follow the College Immunization Policy. 视地点而定, the student may be required to possess and maintain professional liability insurance.
• For unpaid internships, the student must possess and maintain accident insurance.
•教师与学生密切合作,确定合适的实习地点,并考虑到设施的位置, licensing status, 导师资格和所服务儿童的年龄. Current job sites may not be an option for all placements.
• All practicum sites are subject to practicum coordinator approval.
Note: 没有成功完成健康和背景要求的学生将无法成功完成该课程.
Program Outcomes
幼儿教育项目符合全国幼儿教育协会(NAEYC)的教师准备标准。.
这些是改编自 Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators (naeyc.org)
Standard 1: 情境中的儿童发展与学习
Students understand early childhood developmental domains and see each child with unique developmental variations, learning and developing within relationships and multiple contexts, 包括家庭, cultures, languages, communities, and society, using this knowledge to make evidence-based decisions.
Standard 2: Family-Teacher Partnerships and Community Connections
Successful early childhood education depends upon partnerships with the families and knowing about, understanding, 重视家庭特征的多样性. 学生懂得如何创造尊重, responsive, 与家庭建立互惠关系,确定与家庭合作的方式,并了解在早期学习环境之间建立联系的方法, schools, 以及社区组织.
Standard 3: 儿童观察、记录和评估
The primary purpose of assessment is to inform instruction and planning in early learning settings. 学生运用观察力, documentation, and other appropriate assessment approaches and tools, in ways that are ethically grounded and developmentally, culturally, ability, 在语言上是合适的, and value of assessment partnerships with families and professional colleagues.
Standard 4: Developmentally, Culturally, and Linguistically Appropriate Teaching Practices
Teaching and learning vary depending on children’s ages, 发生这种情况的特征和环境. 学生表现积极, caring, 支持性关系和互动, 并使用符合每个孩子需要的教学技巧,包括与发展相适应的、与文化和语言相关的, anti-bias, 循证教学方法.
Standard 5: Knowledge, Application, and Integration of Academic Content in the Early Childhood Curriculum
Students understand many academic disciplines and strategies for teaching them. 他们运用这些知识,使用早期学习标准来决定自发的和有计划的学习经历以及课程发展, implementation, and evaluation to ensure that learning will be stimulating, challenging, 对每个孩子都有意义.
Standard 6: 作为幼儿教育工作者的专业性
学生识别和参与作为早期儿童专业的成员,知道如何倡导年幼的孩子, families, and the profession. They know and use ethical and other early childhood professional guidelines, and communicate effectively in their work with young children, families, and colleagues. Students practice collaboration, reflective and intentional practice as members of the profession.
实习地点
Here are examples of community sites where students have completed Practicum
- 海岸社区学校
- 活到老学到老早教中心
- Stratham Circle学习中心
- 罗宾的Childsplace
- 印印走读学校
- 苹果籽走读学校
- Strafford County Head Start
- Great Bay Kids & Co.
- 朴茨茅斯领先
- 朴茨茅斯早期教育项目
- 养育与自然儿童中心
- 冰球突破豪华版试玩托儿中心
- My School
- 金斯顿儿童中心