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Effective Term:
Spring 2017 through Winter 2025

Course Number:
ECE 189
Course Title:
Building Relationships with Infants, Toddlers, and Families
Credit Hours:
1
Lecture Hours:
10
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Covers ways in which caregivers can facilitate, support, and sustain strong individualized relationships with infants, toddlers, and their families in early education settings. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

This course is designed to enhance the knowledge base of our degree-seeking students (who are required to take 6 – 10 credits of elective credit) while also providing an accessible, interesting, and relevant course to students who are seeking to meet their professional development requirements and/or who might have limited experience in the college setting.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion, students should be able to:

·        Explain the importance of strong relationships in children’s lives for life-long adaptive development.

·        Identify methods of building relationships with infants and toddlers.

·        Identify methods of building relationships with parents (families) of infants and toddlers.

·        Recognize common barriers to building relationships and discuss ways of overcoming such barriers.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Students will…

  1. Attend and actively participate in class and small group activities.
  2. Complete written observations and assignments.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

  1. Social and emotional development in infancy and toddlerhood.
  2. Parent-infant and Parent-toddler relationships – cultural and individual perspectives.
  3. The impact of caregiver-parent relationships on infant and toddler development and programming for infants and toddlers.
  4. Aspects of and techniques for fostering caregiver-child relationships
  5. The role of routines in relationship-building.
  6. Aspects of and techniques for fostering caregiver-parent (family) relationships.
  7. Barriers to relationship-building and addressing such barriers.
  8. Relationship building under special circumstances (children with special needs).