Outcomes

By the completion of this program, students will be expected to demonstrate an intermediate level of competency in the following skills:

1. Apply developmental knowledge to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments for young children.
2. Create strategies for building relationships and involving diverse families in their children's development and learning.
3. Use systematic observation and documentation to assess the development of all children.
4. Implement a wide array of developmentally appropriate approaches, instructional strategies, and tools appropriate for individual children.
5. Design, implement, and evaluate developmentally appropriate and meaningful curriculum for each child.
6. Analyze professional experiences and practices for alignment with best practices, ethical standards and other early childhood professional guidelines.