Small Group Activities in Early Childhood Education (3cr)

Objective

Students know how to plan, implement and evaluate pedagogical activities for early childhood education. They know how to make observations on individual children and child groups and how to document the observations. Students recognise typical features of children's and the community's culture and incorporate them in professional action. Students know the principles pertaining to small group activities and sense of community, and they have competence to implement them in their action. Students know how sustainable development can be promoted and taken into consideration in their action. Students are able to plan early childhood education in a way which allows integrating the action into society, culture and nature.

Content

- planning, implementing and evaluating pedagogical activities
- making observations in early childhood education
- pedagogical documents
- small group activities in early childhood education
- cooperative activities as part of routines in day care centres
- taking the principles of sustainable development into account

Qualifications

Study Cources: The Child's Growth and Learning and Early Childhood Pedagogy

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Under supervision, students know how to plan and implement pedagogical small group activities for early childhood education. Under supervision, they know how to observe children and document their observations. Students know some features of the children’s culture and community. They know some principles related to small group activity and sense of community. Students recognize principles of sustainable development and connections between early childhood education and the surrounding society, culture and nature.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students can plan, implement and evaluate pedagogical small group activities for early childhood education. They know how to observe children and document their observations. Students know features of the children’s culture and community and take them into consideration in their action. Students know principles related to small group activity and sense of community and take them into account in their action. Students recognise principles of sustainable development and understand what the integration of early childhood education with the surrounding society, culture and nature means.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students can plan, implement and evaluate pedagogical small group activities for early childhood education. They know how to observe children with sensitivity and document their observations using multiple perspectives. Students can analyse features in children’s culture and community and creatively apply this knowledge to their action. Students have assimilated the principles of small group activity and the sense of community and can apply them to their action. Students know how to apply the principles of sustainable development and how to promote the integration of early childhood education with the surrounding society, culture and nature.

Further information

For the students who take Early Childhood Education Studies.