EDU 2150 — The Whole Child
This course is designed to introduce students to the influences that development (physical, social and emotional, cognitive, linguistic), past experience, prior knowledge, economic circumstances and issues of diversity have on the learning process. Educational beginnings, curricular trends, professional issues in teaching, characteristics of schools and other learning environments will be explored. Students will become familiar with professional dispositions and begin to practice habits of positive dispositional behavior both in and out of the classroom. Students will complete a minimum of 30 observation hours of preschool through high school environments. Lecture.