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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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ECE 210 - Infant and Toddler Development
Description: Exploration and application of child development theories with very young children, focusing on the developmental periods of prenatal, infancy, and toddlerhood assuming a relationship-based approach providing a nurturing and stimulating environment promoting child development in the areas of cognitive, language, social-emotional, and motor development. Special focus on a transactional approach to attachment, risk and protective factors, brain development, and social-emotional development of infants and toddlers. This course requires 5 face-to-face observation hours in an early childhood setting.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Relationship-Based Model
- Brain development, prenatal development, birth, and newborn
- Attachment, temperament, and caregiver style
- Emotional and social development
- Cognitive and language development
- Sensory and motor development
- Designing relationship-based curriculum
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the relationship-based model with respect to infant and toddler development. (1)
- Summarize developmental themes of brain development, prenatal development, birth process and newborn period. (2)
- Evaluate and apply various theories of infant and toddler development. (3-6)
- Examine the interplay of physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects of infant and toddler development. (3-6)
- Identify the differential effects of parents, family, peers, caregivers, and community on infant and toddler development. (1-6)
- Analyze the transactional relationship of attachment, risk and protective factors, brain development, and social-emotional development of infants and toddlers. (1-4)
- Discuss the power of observational research of infant and toddler developmental functioning in the context of early childhood programs. (1-7)
- Design relationship-based developmentally effective activities to promote infant and toddler development. (1-7)
- Develop course signature assignments reflecting course specific NAEYC core standard(s), posting same in teacher portfolio. (1-7)
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