Early Childhood, Literacy & LanguagePreschool Fun Ideas!
Preschool Fun Ideas is an overview of age appropriate practices for early childhood educators. This course covers the fundamentals of creating engaging and nurturing learning centers, discuss the importance of each learning domain, give examples of activities to incorporate into your daily schedule, and finally you will get hands on experience by creating your own lesson plan.
Course details+
Preschool Fun Ideas is an overview of age appropriate practices for early childhood educators. This course covers the fundamentals of creating engaging and nurturing learning centers, discuss the importance of each learning domain, give examples of activities to incorporate into your daily schedule, and finally you will get hands on experience by creating your own lesson plan.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Identify age appropriate practices for teaching young children
- Define the importance of age appropriate toys and materials in an early childhood classroom
- Recognize differences between early childhood learning domains and learning centers
- Create learning opportunities that are supportive and engaging for each child
- Use knowledge of domains to create meaningful lessons for social/emotion development, physical development, language development and cognitive development
Syllabus & lessons+
Module 1 - The Realities of Preschool: A Look Inside Early Childhood Classrooms
Module 2 - Learning Domains
Module 3 - Daily Activities
Module 4 Chapters - Creating a Lesson Plan
Preschool Fun Ideas! Module 1
The Realities of Preschool: A Look Inside Early Childhood Classrooms
Module one will take a look at early childhood classrooms through the textbook, videos and websites. We will discuss specific materials that are appropriate for each learning center. The module will also focus on weekly and monthly themes for incorporating age appropriate curriculum and how to segment activities into a daily schedule.
- Creating a Nurturing Environment
- Key Features of a Learning Center
- Weekly/Monthly Lesson Plan Themes
- Segmenting Instruction
- Daily Schedules & Learning
Preschool Fun Ideas! Module 2
Learning Domains
Module two will discuss the major learning domains: social, emotional, physical and cognitive and discuss how they affect learning for young children. We will cover the differences between individualized and whole group discussion and decide which activities work best with both models of teaching. Finally we will decide how to implement individualized learning and whole group instruction practices by analyzing different classrooms and activities through the textbook, videos and websites.
- Discuss Major Learning Domains
- Individualized Instruction
- Whole Group Instruction
- Analyzing Classrooms
- Implementing Learning Practices
Preschool Fun Ideas! Module 3
Daily Activities
Module three focuses on developing creative and engaging daily activities for small groups and the entire class. Also included is discussion on how to change direction of an activity due to student response.
- Utilizing Creativity
- Student Engagement
- Experiment with Activities
- Implement Ideas
- Record Experiences
Preschool Fun Ideas! Module 4 Chapters
Creating a Lesson Plan
In Module four you will take all of your knowledge from the previous modules to create a lesson plan with the template provided. Please refer to the textbook, websites, and videos for ideas, however you are encouraged to use original ideas. Please keep the following in mind as you are creating your lesson plan and remember to always engaging activities.
- Learning Centers
- Daily Activities
- Learning Domains
- Individualized Learning
- Whole Group Learning
Instructor+
Marissa Lynn
Marissa has over 15 years of professional experience in various aspects of the education field. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of South Florida in Technical Writing and a Master’s degree from the University of North Dakota with an emphasis in Curriculum and Early Education principles. She spent several years as an educator at not for profit education programs and is currently an instructional designer.
Prerequisites+
No prerequisites required.
Instructional materials+
All materials included in course.
System requirements+
Internet Connection
- Broadband or High-Speed - DSL, Cable, and Wireless Connections
*Dial-Up internet connections will result in a diminished online experience. Classroom pages may load slowly and viewing large audio and video files may not be possible.
Hardware Requirements
- Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
- Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended
PC Software Requirements
- Operating Systems - Windows 10 or higher
- Microsoft Office 2019 or higher. Also, you could use a general Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
- Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
- Cookies MUST be enabled
- Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
- The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
- PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
- Adobe PDF Reader
- QuickTime, Windows Media Player &/or Real Player
MAC Software Requirements
- Operating Systems - Mac OS version 11 or higher
- Mac office programs or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
- Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
- Cookies MUST be enabled
- Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
- The Amazon Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
- PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
- Adobe PDF Reader
- Apple QuickTime Media Player
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