CHC5715 INTERACTION TECHNIQUES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
3 Credit Hours
Student Level:
This course is open to students on the college level in either Freshman or Sophomore year.
Catalog Description:
CHC5715 - Interaction Techniques With Young Children (3 hrs)
This course provides a background for dealing with the behavior of young children. Theoretical approaches are explored to help students establish effective techniques.
Prerequisites:
None
Controlling Purpose:
This course is designed to help the student deal with the behavior of preschool children and the guidance they need to interact effectively with children in their care.
Learner Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student will help individuals reflect on the process of guiding young children. To help students understand that interaction with children does not “happen by magic,” but develops when a self-responsible adult accepts the responsibility that goes along with having or working with children. To understand that a child exists in several different “systems”, each of which affects the child’s behavior.
Unit Outcomes for Criterion Based Evaluation:
The following outline defines the minimum core content not including the final examination period. Instructors may add other material as time allows.
UNIT 1: Building Blocks of Developmentally Appropriate Child Guidance
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Explain developmentally appropriate child guidance.
- Summarize the positive cognitive accomplishments of the first 3
- Piagetian stages.
- List and describe strategies to help children remember.
- Define temperament.
- Analyze case studies on developmentally appropriate child guidance.
UNIT 2: Adult Styles of Caregiving
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Name and describe three styles of caregiving.
- Identify major differences between types of permissiveness.
- Describe negative discipline strategies.
- Explain how each style may affect a child’s development.
UNIT 3: Positive Discipline Strategies
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Define discipline.
- Define positive and negative discipline.
- Explain how to use positive discipline strategies.
- Demonstrate how to use positive discipline strategies.
- Analyze case studies and determine how positive discipline strategies could be used.
UNIT 4: Management of Physical Environment of Children
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Identify characteristics of a good classroom.
- Give a rationale for each type of classroom activity area.
- Discuss how to create an attractive, sensory-rich activity area and set up
- Boundaries.
- List criteria for developmentally appropriate activities.
UNIT 5: Helping Children Develop Positive Self-Esteem
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Define self-esteem.
- Tell how adult acceptance and support affect child’s self-esteem.
- Analyze case-studies for practice that enhance or demean self-esteem.
UNIT 6: Anger Management
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Define anger.
- Identify interactions that might elicit anger.
- Give examples of developmentally appropriate strategies that help children manage anger.
UNIT 7: Coping with Aggression in Children
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Define aggression.
- Explain age and gender differences in aggression.
- Design examples of specific practices that prevent or control aggression.
UNIT 8: Concern for Others
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Define prosocial behavior.
- Identify types of prosocial behaviors.
- Explain the benefits of encouraging prosocial behavior.
UNIT 9: Theories and Their Strategies
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Define terms associated with Adlerian, Rogerian and social learning models.
- List the major principles of the 3 models.
- Examine strategies used in each model.
UNIT 10: The Decision-Making Model of Child Guidance
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Identify the decision-making model to child guidance.
- Inspect a case study to determine how to use the decision-making model.
- Summarize the benefits of using the decision-making model.
- Compose a guidance plan intended to solve discipline dilemmas.
UNIT 11: Traditional Classroom Discipline versus Conflict Resolution and Guidance
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Define traditional discipline and how it is based on criticism of children.
- Explain guidance, conflict, resolution and alternatives on how to guide children properly.
- Discuss traditional discipline and how it punishes children for having problems they cannot solve.
- Consider guidance and how it teaches children to solve their problems in socially acceptable ways.
UNIT 12: Misbehavior or Mistaken Behavior
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Explain how misbehavior implies wrongdoing for which a child must be punished.
- Point out how children are innately good and need to be guided and encouraged in that direction.
- Understand that adults view children as overall good but are little people who have much to learn.
- Utilize the three levels of mistaken behavior: strong-needs behavior, socially influenced behavior, and experimentation behavior.
UNIT 13: Beyond Discipline to Guidance
Outcomes: Upon Completion of this unit, students will be able to successfully…
- Discuss the five misunderstanding about guidance.
- Relate the fact that guidance is not just reacting to problems.
- Design a program in which guidance is synonymous with education.
- Separate implementing guidance practices on paper to actually using practices working with teachers, parents, and administration.
Projects Required:
Textbook:
Contact Bookstore for current textbook.
Materials/Equipment Required:
None
Attendance Policy:
Students should adhere to the attendance policy outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Grading Policy:
The grading policy will be outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Maximum class size:
Based on classroom occupancy
Course Time Frame:
The U.S. Department of Education, Higher Learning Commission, and the Kansas Board of Regents define credit hour and have specific regulations that the college must follow when developing, teaching, and assessing the educational aspects of the college. A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester hour of credit or an equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time. The number of semester hours of credit allowed for each distance education or blended hybrid courses shall be assigned by the college based on the amount of time needed to achieve the same course outcomes in a purely face-to-face format.
Refer to the following policies:
402.00 Academic Code of Conduct
263.00 Student Appeal of Course Grades
403.00 Student Code of Conduct
Disability Services Program:
Cowley College, in recognition of state and federal laws, will accommodate a student with a documented disability. If a student has a disability which may impact work in this class which requires accommodations, contact the Disability Services Coordinator.
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