ECED& 170 Environments for Young Children (3 credits)
Formerly ECE 112
Course Description
Design, evaluate, and improve indoor and outdoor environments which ensure quality learning, nurturing experiences, and optimize the development of young children.
Course Content
A. Theoretical rationale for the construction of an environment that supports and stimulates the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of young children (Piaget, Erikson, Vygotsky, Montessori).
B. Learning Centers: the elements and organization of indoor and outdoor learning environments for young children.
C. Criteria for selection of, and resources for culturally sensitive and developmentally appropriate furniture, equipment and materials used in the learning environment.
D. Design elements for, and evaluation of indoor and outdoor learning environments.
E. The Washington State Administrative code for minimum licensing requirements
F. The Environmental Rating Scale
G. The adult’s role in designing developmentally appropriate strategies for teaching children in the early childhood educational environments.
Student Outcomes
1. Design healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging indoor and outdoor learning environments for children.
2. Identify strategies to achieve compliance with Washington Administrative Code and other state or federal regulations.
3. Create environments that promote growth in all developmental domains and academic disciplines.
4. Establish environments, routines, and schedules that promote children’s age-appropriate, self-regulated behaviors.
5. Establish environments that promote the cultural diversity of children, families, and their communities.
6. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of early learning environments serving differing age groups (ex. infant, toddler, school age).
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome:
OUTCOME 1. PROMOTING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING Students use their understanding of child development – including young children’s unique characteristics and needs, and the multiple interacting influences on children’s development and learning – to create environments that are healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging for each child.
1a: Describe young children’s diverse characteristics and needs, from birth through age 8.
1b: Explain the multiple influences on early development and learning.
1c: Use knowledge of child development to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments for young children.
Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30
Potential Methods
A. Poster or media presentation
B. Written critique
C. Classroom environment critique
D. Small group assessment
E. Written quizzes and exams
F. Peer evaluation
G. Essay / Research paper
H. Role play
I. Self-assessment
J. Indoor/outdoor environment design
K. Material order forms
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