Office: BB 1323Catalog Description:Grading ScaleDEPARTMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, ELEMENTARY,AND MIDDLE LEVEL EDUCATIONELE 2320-005Childhood and Early Adolescent DevelopmentFall 2007Instructor: Linda SherwoodRoom Location: BB 2430 Time: 3:00-4:15 M WOffice: BB 1323 Office Hours: 1:00-2:30 M W; 10:00-12:00 T and/or by appointment or by appointment.Office Phone: 217-581-7830 Home Phone: 217-382-5772E-mail: [email protected] Theme:Educators as creators of effective educational environments, integrating diverse students, subjects, strategies, and societies.Catalog Description:Concepts and issues in the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth and development ofchildren and early adolescents: prenatal through middle school/junior high. This course provides broad and salient coverage of development from birth through adolescence. It offers a balanced and eclectic selection of topics, a firm foundation of classic and up-to-date research, and an examination of timely issues such as abuse, genetic counseling, and changing family lifestyles.Course Prerequisite:Concurrent enrollment with ELE 2000 is recommended.Course Rationale: This course will orient students to learning principles/theories and child development principles/theories and will serve as a foundation for higher level courses.Course Goal:This course is intended to increase knowledge of ways children grow, develop, and learn from the time they are conceived until they have matured beyond early adolescence. The physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of children and adolescence will be explored. Appropriate activities which promote the growth of children and adolescence, and societal changes which influence their development, will also be investigated. Objectives For All ELE Classes:* Develop a desire for lifelong learning in students and personally display one’s own desire for lifelong learning including self-evaluation.* Demonstrate good communication.* Demonstrate/exhibit sensitivity to student’s feelings.* Design instruction to develop and utilize the cognitive processes by which pupils learn.* Demonstrate a knowledge of facts, and an understanding of fundamental principles, ideas, and relationships among various domains.* Demonstrate knowledge of past and present developments, issues, research, and social influences in field education.Objectives Specific To This Course:* Emphasize higher order, critical thinking.* Strive to develop student’s intellectual, social, ethical, and moral skills and behavior.* Provide for the uniqueness of individuals, recognizing of characteristic of culturally pluralistic and “at risk” populations, and foster appreciation of those differences.* Design instruction to develop and utilize the cognitive processes by which pupils learn.Learning Model For Course:Information-Processing Model.Course Text:Santrock, J. W. (2005). Children. 9th Edition. McGraw-Hill Company.Method Of Instruction: Lecture, class discussion, videos, and activities.Course Requirements And Evaluation:Points * Two short papers (1-2 pages): analyze two 50 short journal articles * Current Event (1 current news item about 10 child development) * Personal Child Study Paper (5 pages from 50 birth through adolescence) * E-mail professor 20 * Four video reviews (½ -1 page): reaction to video 20 * Participation 50 * Six TESTS including a MIDTERM and a FINAL 300 Total 500Grading Scale100-90 = A 89-80 = B 79-70 = C 69-60 = D Below 60 = F*All information in this syllabus should be considered subject to change based upon theinstructor’s discretion.**If you need course adaptations or accommodations due to a disability, please make anappointment to see me as soon as possible or contact the Director of Disability
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