4.0 Learning Objectives

Course Description: In an Early Years setting (typically an infant and toddler room), students will have opportunities to integrate course knowledge into practice. Working collaboratively with classroom educators, students consolidate knowledge in building responsive relationships, respectful interactions, and the pedagogical processes in relation to varying abilities and temperaments. Students will actively engage in processes of observing, documenting, and developing a curriculum that is child-centred, play-based, and linked to current pedagogical documents and evidence-based practices. Maintaining healthy and safe environments aligned with legislative and legal requirements will be emphasized. Students will be expected to exhibit professional behaviour that is grounded in ethical practices. Reflective practice will be utilized as a method to enhance the integration of the field experience.

A 2-hour weekly seminar course taken in the same semester as your Field Practicum (Jan-April). Please see your Winter term student schedule for dates and times.

Course Description: Students will have opportunities to critically reflect upon and consider the integration of course knowledge into practice. Building trusting relationships and responsive interactions and the pedagogical processes in relation to varying abilities and temperaments will be of key focus in the seminar. Students will critically examine processes of observing, documenting, and developing a curriculum that is child-centred, play-based, and linked to current pedagogical documents and evidence-based practices. Strategies to maintain healthy and safe environments, aligned with legislative and legal requirements, will be emphasized. Students will be expected to exhibit professional behaviour that is grounded in ethical practices. Reflective practice will be utilized as a method to enhance the processing of the field experience.

Course Description: In this course, students examine the foundations of learning with reference to current play-based pedagogical documents. Inquiry play-based learning in outdoor and indoor environments, with a concentrated focus on relationships and inclusion, is of the essence. Students have opportunities to further build on and integrate pedagogical observation, documentation, and reflective practice knowledge and competencies. Co-construction of pedagogical practices and curriculum in 0-3 early years environments, in linkage to the child and family, is of focus.