Early Childhood Education - NEIU: Revision of an early childhood program with a focus on writing, technology, group work and interpersonal skills, and cultural diversity. (To save as a Word document use the link above)
Early Childhood Education - NEIU
The Early Childhood Education Coordinator at NEIU is Elizabeth Landerholm, Ed.D. IPLP resources supported significant strategies which were combined across the curriculum with other grant, school and university resources. IPLP contributions included faculty retreats, mini-grants to initiate faculty research, team staffing and action workshops for enriching course content, classroom materials, documentation support and travel money to regional, national and international conferences.
The faculty established a collaboration process with teachers, community, graduate students, undergraduate students and faculty from other departments to support a wide range of individual and teamed work goals to bring the program into alignment with NCATE accreditation standards. This included the use of technology across the curriculum, developing clinical experiences and Professional Development School partnerships; increasing opportunities for student experiences in special education, multicultural education and international education; initiating faculty and student participation in assessment and research; collaboration with English and Reading faculty to create a writing across the curriculum structure.
They collected data through technology surveys (student/faculty), creating student portfolios, video interviews and process records, student work products, measurement instruments to track achievement of children and parents, changes in course offerings and syllabi, pre-post tests in writing.
Course syllabi reflect clinical placements and new content in technology, multicultural studies and special education across the ECED curriculum. They brought the special education clinical and course through governance to acceptance; established international summer seminars in Jamaica and China; worked with ECED faculty and COE Dean to create IPLP linked student field placements directly in PDS schools. The faculty successfully found funding for several research projects and is developing a six chapter section in a book about transforming teacher education.
ECED passed the written NCATE review on the first reading (February 2003) and it is anticipated that they will successfully pass the site visit. The department will apply photo, video and assessment technology toward assessing the impact of these changes in PDS classrooms.
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