HDF 227 The Whole Child

Lecture Hours: 3
Credits: 3

Gives students, parents, teachers, and professional child care providers the tools they need to foster the growth and well-being of children in their care. Features real child care givers, working and playing together with children in ways that facilitate learning and development. Locations used during the filming include a suburban preschool, an urban infant center and preschool, an in-home family child care program, two university child care centers and Head Start classrooms.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Describe a classroom setting using the principles of a developmentally appropriate classroom.
Propose techniques and curriculum in the classroom that promote a child’s learning process.
Explain how the interactions between a culture’s beliefs and values and its social policies relate to child development.
Evaluate and define successful guidance techniques for children.
Analyze and describe appropriate environments for young children.

Content Outline

Child Development
- Infant and toddler development
- Pre-school child development
- Middle child development
Social-Emotional Development
- Promoting self-esteem
  - Abuse and neglect
Understanding Families
- Communication
- Community advocates
- Respecting culture and family history
Special Needs Children and Diversity Issues
- Curriculum adaptation
- Family issues
Guidance and Discipline
- Observation
- Positive guidance teaching
Physical Development and Play
- Curriculum
- Environment
Intellectual Development
- Developmentally appropriate curriculum
- Supporting family systems