| Pellissippi State Technical Community College Fall 2008 Safe, Healthy Learning Environment ECED 2010 MWF 11:50 -- 12:45 AL225 |
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| Instructor Catherine Shafer, PhD ctshafer@pstcc.edu catherinejts@yahoo.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Textbook Safety, Nutrition, and Heath in Early Education, 3rd Edition, 2007, Cathie Robertson; Delmar Publishers, ISBN 1- 4180 - 5061 - X. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Description A study of the basic principles of good health as they relate to the child in the family, child care center, family childcare home, early childhood education setting, and the community. Includes child nutrition, growth, disease and accident prevention, and safety. Also included is a study of principles of creating appropriate learning environments for young children. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation: Standard 1: Promoting Child Development and Learning 1a. Know and understand children's characteristics and needs; 1b. Know and understand the multiple influences on development and learning; Standard 3: Observing, documenting, and Assessing to Support Young Children and Families 3b. Know about and use observation, documentation, and other appropriate assessment tools and approaches. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IDEA objectives: Objective 1: Gain factual knowledge (terminology, classifications, methods, trends) Objective 2: Learn fundamental principles, generalizations, and theories Objective 11: Learn to analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments, and points of view __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| Course Schedule Monday, August 25 Introduction to the course; syllabus, assignments Wednesday, August 27 The Interrelationship of Health, Safety, and Nutrition in an Early Childhood Setting Friday, August 29 Safety BASICS (read chapter 1) Monday, September 1 NO CLASS -- LABOR DAY Wednesday, September 3 The Environment: Why do I feel this way? Children = Miniature adults? Friday, September 5 Indoor Safety (read chapter 2) Monday, September 8 The Lives of Children/ How children learn Wednesday, September 10 Outdoor Safety (read chapter 3) Get information about playground safety project. Project is due on October 1 in class. Friday, September 12 Infants and Toddlers in Groups Monday, September 15 Emergencies (read chapter 4) Wednesday, September 17 Characteristics of Space Friday, September 19 Educational Experiences for Young Children (safety) Monday, September 22 Nutrition BASICS (read chapter 5) Wednesday, September 24 Dimensions of Space Friday, September 26 Nutrients that provide energy; that promote growth; that regulate bodily functions (read chapter 6) Monday, September 29 Room Arrangement Wednesday, October 1 Presentation of playground safety projects. Friday, October 3 Menu Planning (read chapter 7) Get information about menu planning project. Project is due in class on October 20th. Monday, October 6 Indoor Learning Environments (Bring poster board, scrap paper, and cut out pictures to class today; also bring scissors and glue if you want your own) ... these posters of an early childhood floor plan will be presented in class on October 31. Wednesday, October 8 Aspects of the early childhood environment Sign up for environmental prop box and safety project. Presentations will start on October 17 Friday, October 10 Health BASICS (read chapter 8) Monday, October 13 NO SCHOOL -- FALL BREAK Wednesday, October 15 Outdoor Learning Environments Friday, October 17 BOOKS/ LIBRARY/ WRITING safety and prop box presentation Monday, October 20 Menu planning projects are due today! (presented in class) Wednesday, October 22 Health conditions that affect a child's life (read chapter 9) Friday, October 24 DRAMATIC PLAY safety and prop box presentation Monday, October 27 Infectious Diseases (read chapter 10) Wednesday, October 29 MANIPULATIVES safety and prop box presentation Friday, October 31 Presentation of Early Childhood floor plans Monday, November 3 Communicable and Acute Illnesses (read chapter 11) Wednesday, November 5 SCIENCE safety and prop box presentation Friday, November 7 Child Abuse (read chapter 13) Monday, November 10 BLOCKS/ CONSTRUCTION safety and prop box presentation Wednesday November 12 Children With Special Needs (read chapter 13) Friday, November 14 ART safety and prop box presentation Monday, November 17 Healthy Lifestyles and Play Wednesday, November 19 SENSORY (WATER, SAND TABLE) safety and prop box presentation Friday, November 21 Parent Education Monday, November 24 MUSIC safety and prop box presentation Wednesday, November 26 NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING Friday, November 28 NO CLASS -- THANKSGIVING Monday, December 1 COOKING safety and prop box presentation Wednesday, December 3 CLASSROOM PETS safety and prop box presentation Friday, December 5 MATH/ COMPUTERS safety and prop box presentation Wednesday, December 10 12:30 -- 2:20 FINAL EXAM (check with college website for time changes just in case) |
| Assignments. All assignments may be completed individually or in groups (no more than 3 people, except for the classroom dimension safety presentation. That may require more people in your group depending on how many people are in our class to divide between 10 dimensions. If there are only 10 of you, then if will be an individual presentation. If there are 40 of you, then 4 will be in each group. OK?) except for the prop box development and personal menu. Those 2 must be done alone. 1. Internet links ... this isn't really an assignment, but just a good place for you to find links that may be helpful. I could have you visit and report, but it is much more useful as a resource. I hope some of these will be helpful to you in this course. If you find others, let me know and I will add them here. American Academy of Pediatrics Children's Defense Fund Committee for Children Educational Resources Information Center on Early Childhood Education National Association for the Education of Young Children The World Health Organization American Association of Poison Control Centers Second Harvest -- childhood hunger what about this head lice place? Centers for Disease Control about Immunizations National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services (Families & Children) American Psychological Association (violence) 2. Playground safety project. Due October 1 (presented in class). I will give you information in class and you can also access this website (listed below) to get information on playground safety. Basically what you are going to do is to find a playground. If you find one that is STUPENDOUS that is fine. If you find one that is HORRIBLE that is also fine. But you get to rate it, nonetheless. Use the graphs I give you or make your own from the ones I give you or from this link or whatever. Make some pictures of the playground, particularly pictures that speak to the stupendousness or horror of the playground. Arrange the pictures and information attractively on a poster and bring it to class. This is worth 100 points. Public Playground Safety Handbook National Childcare Information Center (also environments) Accessible Play Areas (for children with disabilities) Child Care Center Design Guide (this is a book for download) Playing It Safe (Survey of Public Playgrounds) 3. Menu planning project. Due October 20 (presented in class.) Make a menu for 2 weeks for a child the age you are interested in teaching. The web sites listed here (below) are fabulous and very helpful -- go there immediately. Your menu should cover the food pyramid and be a healthy, nutritional menu to support the child's growth and health. At the same time, keep a log of your own menu for a two week period. At the end of the assignment, compare your own menu to the menu you generated for a child. Granted, you are not a child, but it can still be comparable! You may work with a partner on the menu for a child, but you must keep your VERY OWN 2-week menu report, sorry, but that is the law. Report in class on said date, and we will all laugh at you. I mean with you. This is worth 100 points. Food Pyramid lesson plans United States Department of Agriculture mypyramid.gov If you go HERE, and scroll down a tad, to find the Healthy Choices for Kids Activity Kit. 4. Early childhood floor plan. Due October 31 (Halloween), in class. We will actually start making these in class on October 6. You should bring a piece of poster board or one of those styrofoam boards to class, along with various and sundry pictures and scrap paper and glue or push pins or tape and other things that you want to have to start your floor plan. You can work with a partner, I really don't mind at all. These will be presented on Halloween for all sorts of classroom fun. This is worth 100 points. (Hey, it's the only number I know!) Child Care Center Design Guide (see link under playground safety) Head Start Design Guide (a book available for download) 5. Classroom learning center safety presentation. Due on different days, depending on your own learning center. For this assignment, I really want you to look closely at the early childhood learning center and take it apart as far as safety, health, and nutrition go. And then, decide how this area can be more healthy, safe, and nutritious. Look at this two ways: how to make it more healthful (etc.) for the child playing there AND how to make the child more aware of health, safety, and nutrition by playing there. In other words, develop a lesson plan and indicate how this particular area of the classroom could support that particular topic. While the child learns more about this topic by playing in your area, how also is the topic being put to use? Make copies of your lesson plan for the other students. On the same day as your dimension presentation, you will present your prop boxes. The learning center presentation will be in groups. The prop box will not (see below). This is worth ... 200 points!! wahoo! 6. Prop box development. Due on the day you present your learning center safety dealie. You know, this is just for fun. I love stuff like this so you get to do it, too, and then you have a great prop box for future fun and frolic! So go to this website (below) and look at the stuff I give you. I will make one, too!! I will bring it to class and after you OOH and AAH you will be inspired to go forth and make your own!! We will talk about it in class, but here are a few tips: make your props fit a book to be read or told aloud OR make them fit a story or song. Alternately, you might make a prop box that you feel would be fun to include in one of the centers in the classroom -- how fun would it be if it were to match your own dimension presentation!?!?OK. Now here is the tricky part. Let some children play with your prop box. Watch carefully and make note of the things that seem to be working and those things that do not. This (along with showing your prop box to us) will be what you present to us: how you were successful or how you were not. Don’t worry. If it didn’t work, you won’t get an F. But I still want to know. But it won’t affect your grade in the slightest. This is worth 100 points!!! Fun site for Prop Box ideas 7. Bulletin Board to promote safety, health, and nutrition. This is a bulletin board intended for parents. You can use poster board if you want, or you can make a fake bulletin board on available space on the wall of our classroom (don't make it too big, since there will be many). Choose one of our three topics: nutrition, safety, or health. THEN choose some aspect of that broad category (for example, "bullying" from safety or "headlice" from health [see website above]). Make the bulletin board attractive and eye-catching so that parents notice it upon arrival at preschool. It should be informative, and maybe even have a small something, such as a fact sheet, to send home with parents. 100 POINTS!!!! |
| GRADING. There are 700 possible points: PLAYGROUND SAFETY 100 points MENU PLANNING 100 points FLOOR PLAN 100 points BULLETIN BOARD 100 points PROP BOX 100 points DIMENSION PRESENTATION 200 points 630 -- 700 points = A 560 -- 629 points = B 490 -- 559 points = C 420 -- 489 points = D Below 420 = F NOTE: If you decide that you cannot complete the course, or want to stop coming, PLEASE withdraw or drop the course, so that I do not have to give you an F. Even if you stop too late to drop, let me know and I can give you an Incomplete (if you are interested in finishing). If you do not tell me why you have stopped coming, I will assume that you are uninterested in a good grade and will assign an F. |