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Students prepared in the Early Childhood Education degree program use their knowledge of academic disciplines and learning in the context of a Biblical worldview to design, implement, and evaluate experiences that promote Christ-honoring development and learning for each and every young child, uniquely created by God in His image. Students understand the importance of developmental domains and academic (or content) disciplines in early childhood curriculum. They know the essential concepts, inquiry tools, and structure of content areas, including academic subjects, and can identify resources to deepen their understanding. Students use their own knowledge and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging, and Christ-honoring curriculum that promotes comprehensive developmental and learning outcomes for every young child.
“I give you sound learning, so do not forsake my teaching.”
(Proverbs 4:2)
*Key elements of Program Learning Outcome 5*
5a: Understanding content knowledge, resources, and a Biblical worldview in academic disciplines: language and literacy; the arts – music, creative movement, dance, drama, visual arts, mathematics; science; physical activity, physical education, health and safety; and social studies.
5b: Knowing and using the central concepts, inquiry tools, and structures of content areas or academic disciplines.
5c: Using their own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, God’s Word, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate developmentally meaningful, challenging, Christ-honoring curriculum for each child.
This artifact contributes to my learning because it gave me the opportunity to practice the full completion of a lesson, from writing it, implementing it, and finally evaluating it. I really challenged myself to think of as many ways as I could to incorporate multiple developmental domains within my activity. The actual implementation of the lesson grew me as I had to make on the spot adjustments to cooperate with the needs of the students. Also, by having the lesson video taped it gave me great insight on things that I did not notice during the actual lesson. I found such value in the evaluation process as I continue to grow as an educator and have more opportunities to work with student and have rich times of learning and instruction.
This artifact connects with PLO #5 as I designed and implemented a lesson that valued different developmental domains within one activity; music, creative movement, visual arts, health and safety. I demonstrated a knowledge and understanding of "Using Content Knowledge to Build Meaningful Curriculum" as I decided to create my own song about sun safety to accompany the activity. I also know that since children enjoy sensory activities I decided to include a variety of different materials in order for them to feel and to experience. The topic of Sun safety is very important, especially living in Texas, and I felt that the lesson provided children with very important information in a way that was fun and that they will remember.
In order to support my knowledge and understanding of Program Learning Outcome #5 I have included a lesson plan I created, accompanied by a video of that lesson, and a self-evaluation of the implemented lesson. The lesson was created to fit into the theme of "Sun Protection" for a preschool class of four-year-olds. Within this lesson I expanded on children's developmental need to be creative, experience music and rhythm, and textile sensory exploration within learning about sun safety.
Sun Shakers Lesson Plan w: eval.doc
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