Associate of Science in Early Childhood Education

Upon successful completion of the Early Childhood Education program, student will be able to:

1. Demonstrate mastery of the contents of the early childhood education and elementary education curriculum.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of learning theory through planning, teaching and interacting with preschool children.
3. Demonstrate basic knowledge of children's growth and development.
4. Demonstrate skills in delivery of early childhood school curriculum in the heritage language.
5. Use a variety of teaching strategies to meet the learning needs of the preschool children.
6. Demonstrate communication and interpersonal skills for facilitating the development of children and meeting challenges of working with children with special needs.
7. Demonstrate and use background knowledge in the following areas: learning theories and principles, growth and development, language development, sociocultural issues, motivation, legal issues in education, natural and physical science.
8. Demonstrate professionalism.