ECE 249 - Activities for Infants and Toddlers

1. Describe infant and toddler developmental stages and milestones. [COMMUNICATE]
2. Document and communicate the principles of care-giving as curriculum. [COMMUNICATE]
3. Design an infant and toddler environment, identifying essential elements for the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, language, literacy and creative learning for individual children and their families in collaboration with teacher/care-giver. [REASON]
4. Demonstrate and document the importance of observation as a tool for understanding and planning experiences for infants and toddlers. [COMMUNICATE]
5. Document and demonstrate ability to develop learning plans, experiences and materials for infants and toddlers that reflect children’s developmental stages, milestones, interests and teachers’ intentions. [ACT]
6. Demonstrate teaching strategies that foster and nurture relationship-building of infants and toddlers and their families and teachers. [ACT]
7. Demonstrate personally defined teacher planning strategies and teacher-child, teacher-teacher, teacher-parent interactions that support cultural diversity and inclusive practices in developmentally appropriate ways in infant toddler programs. [EXPLORE]