Promoting the Child's Growth and Learning (4cr)

Objective

Students have assimilated the principles of child-centred action. They know how to monitor and assess individual children's and child groups' needs and to support and counsel them at various stages of their growth, development and learning. Students are able to recognise needs for special support. They know the most important principles in early childhood education and use them in planning, implementing and evaluating pedagogically useful and goal-oriented activities for children. Students know how to support and promote children's spontaneous play and, if necessary, how to supervise it. Students are prepared to strengthen and promote children's rights and welfare.

Content

- the child-centred approach
- assessing needs of individual children and child groups
- assessment tools
- action princples in early childhood education
- early childhood education plan
- the key worker system in day care
- planning pedagogical, goal-oriented activities
- play
- the child' s participation and rights

Qualifications

Growth and Socialization

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students
- are able to name individual children's and child groups' needs and the need for special support
- tend to take the needs into account while supporting and counselling them at various stages of their growth, development and learning
- know some principles in early childhood education
- are able to name some principles of goal-oriented activities
- are able to name children's rights and describe some factors that influence promotion of children?s welfare

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students
- have capacities to child-centred action
- have competences to recognize individual children's and child groups' needs and the need for special support
- take the needs into account while supporting and counselling children at various stages of their growth, development and learning
- know the most important principles in early childhood education
- know the principles of planning, implementing and evaluating pedagogically useful and goal-oriented activities for children
- recognize the importance of promotion of children's spontaneous play
- have knowledge about principles how to strengthen and promote children's rights and welfare

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students
- have capacities to child-centred action and they are able to justify their actions
- have competences to analyze and assess individual children's and child groups' needs and the need for special support
- are able to take the needs into account while supporting and counselling children at various stages of their growth, development and learning
- are able to apply the most important principles in early childhood education and use them in planning, implementing and evaluating pedagogically useful and goal-oriented activities for children
- know how to support and promote children's spontaneous play and how to supervise it
- have abilities to strengthen and promote children's rights and welfare

Materials

to be announced at the beginning of the course

Further information

The Study Course has to be finished before starting Training in Pedagogy.