Early Childhood Education - Teaching Minor
Early Childhood Education - Teaching Minor
Elementary Education majors may choose to minor in Early Childhood Education. This minor provides undergraduate students wishing to teach in prekindergarten and kindergarten classrooms with advanced knowledge and experiences in child development and learning, integrated curriculum, family and community relations, positive guidance and assessment in early childhood. Completion of a minor will lead to the State of Iowa Teacher- PK-Kindergarten (ED 103) endorsement which can only be earned in conjunction with the K-6 General Classroom teacher endorsement.
Enrollment Management Policies: The Early Childhood Education teaching minor is only available to students pursuing K-6 General Classroom teacher licensure. Early Childhood Education minors may begin their program in either fall or spring semester.
Admission requirements: In order to declare this minor, a student must have a GPA of 2.5 or higher and be admitted to the Teacher Education program.
A 2.00 (C) or higher is needed for all courses to count in the minor.
Students should plan their course work so that all Early Childhood Education courses are taken prior to student teaching. Students must have a cumulative, UNI, minor and major GPA of 2.50 in order to student teach. Student teaching placements in a PreK classroom and an elementary classroom are required (EDUC 4132 and EDUC 4134).
| Required: | ||
| EDPSYCH 2068 | Development and Learning in Sociocultural Contexts | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Technology, Pedagogy, and Learning in the Digital Age | ||
| Assessment for Learning | ||
| Effective Teaching through Differentiation, Technology and Assessment | ||
| EDPSYCH 3109/5109 | Development and Assessment of Young Children | 3 |
| ECIE 3149 | Child, Family, School and Community Relationships | 3 |
| ECIE 4130/5130 | Guidance and Instruction in Early Childhood Education | 3 |
| ECIE 4151 | Early Childhood Curriculum Development and Organization | 3 |
| ECIE 4192/5192 | Field Experience and Seminar in Early Childhood | 2 |
| LITED 3119/5119 | Language Development and Emergent Literacy | 3 |
| Total Hours | 23 | |