Early Education Comprehensive, B.A.

The purposes of early education specialization are:

1. To promote teachers who are reflective problem solvers in the daily workplace of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms;
2. To promote teachers who plan and implement a learning environment responsive to the social and psychological conditions which characterize their school, the community and the homes of their students;
3. To promote a strong background in child development and related pedagogical practices;
4. To provide teachers with a wide range of developmentally appropriate teaching methodologies and strategies across many content areas;
5. To promote practice based on careful observation of children’s learning and social interactions within both learning and home environments;
6. To promote a broadly based understanding of early education and its place and function in society; and
7. To promote a desire for continued investigation of the teaching/learning dialectic beyond the undergraduate preparation.