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Creative Development Experiences (ECED 1644)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
2
Lab Credits:
1
Description:
This course is an exploration of ways to support children’s development in all skill areas through imaginative play activities. You will integrate knowledge of how learning is embedded throughout the prepared environment and children’s creativity is encouraged in all aspects of the day including individual choices and small- or large-group times. Must be taken A-F.
Topical Outline:
1. Stages of creative development
2. Creative goals, objectives, and teaching strategies
3. Two- and three-dimensional art
4. Music and singing
5. Creative movement and dance
6. Dramatic play
Learning Outcomes:
1. Examine how the daily schedule and routines support the balance of developmentally appropriate active /quiet and social/solitary experiences
2. Explore why the environment is important to children’s learning, taking into consideration health and safety of the children in a way that supports interactions in all developmental domains
3. Design activity plans that encourage creativity by the children as individuals and interactions between children to support development within the context of the Minnesota Early Childhood Indicators of Progress
4. Illustrate multiple ways that teachers facilitate open-ended learning activities and include opportunities for children to select and direct their own play in ways that encourage integration of growth in all developmental domains
5. Describe the importance of a teacher’s creativity in planning environments that encourage children to discover and manipulate materials for learning
6. Evaluate whether environments support developmentally appropriate creativity in all interest areas and activities
Prerequisites:
A recommended placement into
READ 0200 or
ESOL 0052 or a recommended completion of
READ 0100 or
ESOL 0042.