2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    May 05, 2024  
2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ECED 104 Parent and Child (2 credits)



Formerly ECE 141

Prerequisite Parent participates with child. Department permission.

Course Description
Participation of parents with children 18-36 months of age in a child-study laboratory for the purpose of parent education in two year old growth and development. Course components include observation, lecture and discussion sessions.

Course Content
A. Physical, social, emotional and cognitive development of the two year old child.
B. Issues in physical development: developing an appropriate environment for two-year-olds; the effects of movement on development.
C. Issues in social development: understanding the states of sharing development; dealing with children’s aggression.
D. Issues in emotional development: enhancing self-esteem in young children; understanding individual temperament differences.
E. Issues in cognitive development: examining learning styles; current brain research; stages of cognitive and moral development.
F. Family issues and support.
G. Guidance and discipline techniques for young children.

Student Outcomes
1. Identify a developmentally appropriate environment for young children.

2. Select appropriate techniques based on knowledge of social development that assist children in sharing and playing with others.

3. Identify influencing factors that lead to the development of aggression in young children.

4. Provide children with positive alternatives to aggressive behavior that are based on current understanding of social development.

5. Utilize language that enhances the development of self-esteem in young children.

6. Apply congruent behavioral techniques based upon children’s individual temperament styles.

7. Identify multiple intelligence learning styles in individual adults and children and choose corresponding teaching strategies.

8. Apply current brain development and learning theories to young children’s activities.

9. Identify differences in the stages of cognitive and moral development and provide learning experiences appropriate to the child’s level.

10. Distinguish between cognitive, intellectual, and academic development and report how each relates to children’s higher level thinking skills.

11. Select appropriate guidance techniques for different misbehavior types in applying discipline for the two-year-old child.

12. Explore the impact on family dynamics which may occur during the two-year-old child’s stage of development, and plan activities to enhance the parent/child relationship.

Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20



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