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Pathways to Teaching Profession I

Semester Overview

Unit 1: History of Education

  • Analyze career paths within early childhood, education, and related services.

Unit 2: Philosophies & Learning Styles

  • Implement learning activities in all curriculum areas that meet the developmental needs of learners.
  • Implement an integrated curriculum that incorporates a learner’s language, learning styles, early experiences, and cultural values.

Unit 3: Classroom Environment

  • Arrange the classroom environment to provide for learners' exploration, discovery, development, and reflection through multiple methods including learning centers.
  • Establish effective activities, routines, and transitions for various age groups.
  • Manage physical space to maintain a learning environment that is safe and healthy and encourages physical activity.

Unit 4: Classroom Management

  • Apply developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive guidelines for behavior.

Unit 5: Classroom Management

  • Address specific developmental needs of children, youth and adults based on assessment of their abilities. 
  • Analyze strategies that promote growth and development of children, youth and adults.
  • Analyze learners' developmental progress and summarize developmental issues and concerns.
  • Implement federal, state, and local standards, policies, regulations, and laws that affect programs for children, youth and adults and their families.

Unit 6: Bulletin Boards

  • Manage physical space to maintain a learning environment that is safe and healthy and encourages physical activity.

Unit 7: Middle Childhood & Elementary

  • Address specific developmental needs of children, youth and adults based on assessment of their abilities.
  • Analyze strategies that promote growth and development of children, youth and adults.
  • Analyze a variety of curriculum and instructional models.
  • Manage physical space to maintain a learning environment that is safe and healthy and encourages physical activity.

Unit 8: Lesson Plans

  • Analyze a variety of curriculum and instructional models. 
  • Implement learning activities in all curriculum areas that meet the developmental needs of learners.
  • Demonstrate a variety of teaching methods to meet individual needs of learners.
  • Analyze learners' developmental progress and summarize developmental issues and concerns.

Unit 9: Careers & Employability Skills

  • Analyze opportunities for employment, entrepreneurial endeavors, and emerging careers.
  • Summarize education and training requirements and opportunities for career paths in early childhood, education, and services.