ECE 1311 Infant/Toddler Development and Mental Health

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: ECE 1210

Institutional Core Competencies

• Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.

Course Competencies

1. Implement age-appropriate learning activities to address cognitive, emotional, social, sensory-motor, and language development.
2. Develop an appropriate learning environment for infants and toddlers.
3. Apply guidance and management techniques to accommodate the developmental characteristics of young children from birth to age three.
4. Identify the needs and learning styles of children from birth through age three based on assessment tool results to determine situations that necessitate referrals or collaboration with other service providers and to select appropriate programs, environments, and learning experiences.
5. Implement learning approaches that are accessible to all children ages birth to age three, including those with diverse backgrounds, learning modalities, and exceptionalism, while demonstrating respect for all differences within the school community.
6. Recognize the need to build and maintain a primary care relationship with each infant and toddler. TECE 3.B.2, NAEYC 4A
7. Describe typical and atypical development of children, birth through age three, across all domains (social, emotional, physical, and cognitive).
8. Describe why prevention, early identification, and intervention across developmental domains is essential knowledge that impact the healthy development of children from birth to age three.
9. Analyze the importance of considering the context of family, culture, and society on our understanding of children’s development and behavior for ages birth to age three.
10. Explore intervention strategies related to atypical social/emotional development for children ages birth to age three.
11. Analyze how skills related to attachment relationships, environments, and variables impact the healthy development of children from birth to age three.