Course Sequences and Syllabi
In the 2007-2008 academic year, with Cohort 1, the College of Education began an Early Childhood Teacher Education Program modeled, to some degree, on traditional programs found elsewhere in the country. The following year, the academic staff began to envision an entirely different model for the program. They presented their ideas to the Helios Foundation and, in 2010, at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year received funding to implement their vision, project CREATE. While Cohorts 1 and 2 were finishing their program, CREATE began a concurrent planning, implementation, and evaluation process based on the Funds of Knowledge work of Luis Moll and Norma Gonzalez. The implementation of CREATE's vision is evident in the sequencing of courses from Cohort 3 to Cohort 6. Not only have courses moved from university classrooms to early childhood learning centers, but they have evolved from a series of insular courses to ones that were cooperative and collaborative and, finally, to ones more fully integrated and connected.
Links to viewable syllabi are available.
| Cohort 3: Fall 2009 - Spring 2011 | ||||
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| Semester | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Fall 2010 | Spring 2011 |
| Course |
LRC 411 Cultural Pluralism (3) |
SERP 301C Inclusion (2) |
TTE 312,Reading & language arts | TTE 493D Student Teaching |
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LRC 480C Children’s Literature (3) |
EDP 301C Child Development (3) |
TTE 314, Science (3) |
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TTE 300C Classroom Processes (4) |
EDP 358C Assessment (3) |
TTE 316, Math (3) |
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| TTE 350D Schooling in America(3) |
LRC 416 SEI (3) |
TTE 317, Social Studies (3) | ||
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LRC 312C Early Language Acquisition and Literacy Development (3) |
TTE 321C, Art (1) | |||
| Location | On campus | On campus | On site | On site |
| Fieldwork | 45 hours of field work birth-grade 3. Students located sites | No fieldwork hours. Courses have field based assignments. Student located sites. |
8 weeks birth through prek placement 8 weeks K-3 placement |
8 weeks birth through prek placement 8 weeks K-3 placement |
| Cohort 4: Fall 2010 - Spring 2012 | ||||
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| Semester | Fall 2010 | Spring 2011 | Fall 2011 | Spring 2012 |
| Course | LRC 312C Early Language Acquisition and Literacy Development (3) | EDP 301C Child Development (3) | SERP 301C Inclusion (2) | LRC 417 SEI II |
| LRC 480C Children’s Literature (3) | EDP 357C Assessment (3) | TTE 316 Math (3) | TTE 314 Science (3) | |
| TTE 300C Classroom Processes (4) | LRC 411 Cultural Pluralism (3) | TTE 312 Reading & Language Arts (6) | TTE 321C Art (1) | |
| TTE 350D Schooling in America(3) | LRC 416 SEI (3) | TTE 493d Student Teaching: K-3 (6 units) | TTE 493d Student Teaching: Birth-PreK (6) | |
| TTE 317 Social Studies (3) | ||||
| Location | On Campus | On Site | On Site | On Site |
| Fieldwork | Selected early childhood centers & families | Families | Student Teaching, K-3 classrooms | Student Teaching, Birth-PreK |
| Cohort 5: Fall 2011 - Spring 2013 | ||||
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| Semester | Fall 2011 | Spring 2012 | Fall 2012 | Spring 2013 |
| Course | TTE 350D School & Society (3) | EDP 301C Child Development (3) | TTE 312 Reading & Language Arts | TTE 321C Art (1) |
| TTE 300C Classroom Processes | TTE 314 Science (3) | EDP 358C Assessment (3) | LRC 417 SEI II (3) | |
| TTE 480C Children’s Literature (3) | LRC 312C (3) Early Language | SERP 301C Inclusion (2) | ||
| LRC 411 Cultural Pluralism (3) | LRC 416 SEI (3) | TTE 493D (6 units) Student Teaching: Birth-PreK |
TTE 493d (6 units) Student Teaching K-2 |
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| TTE 316 Math (3) | TTE 317 Social Studies (3) | |||
| Location | On Campus | On Site | On Site | On Site |
| Fieldwork | Selected early childhood centers & families | Families | Student Teaching, K-3 classrooms | Student Teaching, Birth-PreK |
| Cohort 6: Spring 2012 - Spring 2014 | |||||
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| Semester | Spring 2012 | Fall 2012 | Spring 2013 | Spring 2013 | Fall 2014 |
| Course | TTE 350D Schooling in America (3 | TTE 300C Classroom Processes (2) | EDP 301C Child Development (3) | EDP 358C Assessment (3) | LRC 417 SEI II (3) |
| LRC 411 Cultural Pluralism | LRC 312C Early Language Acquisition and Literacy Development (3 | LRC 416 SEI (3) | TTE 300C Classroom Processes (2 | ||
| LRC 480C Children’s Literature (3) | TTE 312 Reading & Language Arts (3) | SERP 301C Inclusion (2) | TTE 312 Reading & Language Arts (3) | ||
| TTE 317 Social Studies (3) | TTE 321C Art (1) | TTE 314 Science (3 | TTE 493d Student Teaching K-2 (6 units) | ||
| TTE 493d Student Teaching: Birth-PreK (6 units) | TTE 316 Math (3 | ||||
| Location | On Campus | On Campus | On Site | On Site | On Site |
| Fieldwork | Visits to public and private sites for diversity of models | Focus: Community, families, and selected Birth-PreK Sites | Focus: Families & Birth-PreK Sites; Students stay at their birth-pre-k site for student teaching | Focus: Families & K-3 classrooms; Continue to K-3 placement | Focus: Families & K-3 classrooms; Stay at their K-3 site for student teaching |
| Parents | Teachers will help identify potential families at sites | Students continue to work with families from Fall 2012 | Students continue to work with families from Fall 2012 | Students continue to work with families from Fall 2012 | |
| Fieldwork | 1 in school district | 1 in school district | 1 in school district | 1 in school district | |