Course Name:  Advanced Guidance and Planning for Early Childhood  
Course Prefix: CHF
Course Number: 4710
             Submitted by (Name & E-Mail):  Jared Lisonbee, jaredlisonbee@weber.edu

Current Date:  1/26/2012
College: Education
Department:   Child & Family Studies                              
From Term: Fall  2012 

Nonsubstantive

change 

Current Course Subject CHF
Current Course Number 4710

CHF 4710 Advanced Planning and Guidance (3). A synthesis of guidance and planning with an emphasis on assessment, appropriate objectives and strategies for individual and specific groups of children. Requires both lecture and lab time. Students majoring in EC, ECE, or taking an early childhood specialization with their K-6 license will register for the section that is offered the first 5 weeks of the semester, and take it concurrently with CHF 4720. Teacher Education majors who are K-6 candidates and not taking an early childhood specialization will register for the full semester section. Minors take it concurrently with CHF 4860. Prerequisites: CHF 2610 and CHF 2620.

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Course Number: 4710

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Course Title: Advanced Guidance and Planning for Early Childhood Education

Abbreviated Course Title: Adv Guidance & Planning--ECE

Course Type:  LEL

Credit Hours:  3  or if variable hours:    to

Contact Hours: Lecture   Lab    Other

Repeat Information:  Limit 0   Max Hrs 0 

Grading Mode:  standard

This course is/will be: a required course in a major program
a required course in a minor program
a required course in a 1- or 2- year program
elective

Prerequisites/Co-requisites:

Prerequisites: CHF 2610, CHF 2620; Co-requisite: CHF 4720 for EC/ECE/K-C & EC double majors, CHF 4860 for EC/ECE minors.

Course description (exactly as it will appear in the catalog, including prerequisites):

CHF 4710 Advanced Guidance and Planning for Early Childhood (3).
A synthesis of guidance and planning with an emphasis on assessment, appropriate objectives and strategies for individual and specific groups of children. Requires both lecture and lab time. Students majoring in EC, ECE, or completing an early childhood specialization along with their K-6 license will take CHF 4710 concurrently with CHF 4720. Child Development minors may take CHF 4710 concurrently with CHF 4860. Prerequisites: CHF 2610 and CHF 2620.

Justification for the new course or for changes to an existing course. (Note: Justification should emphasize academic rationale for the change or new course. This is particularly important for courses requesting upper-division status.)

With the recent changes to state teaching licensure practices extending the grades teachers receive licensure for to K-6, teacher training programs were asked by the State Board of Education to add early education curricula to K-6 teacher training programs. As a result, students pursuing elementary education licensure here at Weber State now take three early childhood education courses as part of their training (CHF 2610, CHF 2620, and CHF 4710). The CHF 4710 class, Advanced Guidance and Planning, was added to be taken along with student's Level 1 coursework because it provides a synthesis and extension of student's learning from the CHF 2610 (Guidance Based on Developmental Theory) and CHF 2620 (Planning Creative Experiences) courses, and it provides an opportunity for students to conduct assessment, planning and implementation in an early learning classroom setting in a way that complements their other Level 1 coursework.

CHF 4710, Advanced Guidance and Planning, was originally designed to be taken concurrently with CHF 4720 (Student Teaching in the Children School) for students in the early childhood or early childhood education programs. For the first five weeks of the semester, early childhood students completed CHF 4710 and the remainder of the semester was intended to be the student teaching experience in the early education classroom (4720). Elementary education students do not complete the classroom student teaching in the early learning classroom, so a separate section of 4710 was developed that is taught throughout the semester that includes a laboratory classroom component, but does not have the additional student teaching component completed by early childhood and early childhood education students. Because the CHF 4710 course taken concurrently with CHF 4720 has elements specific to preparation for the CHF 4720 student teaching experience, we anticipate a potential advising difficulty arising for students who initially take the full semester 4710 class as part of pursuing a K-6 licensure (without the 4720 component) who later change their focus of study to an early childhood education specialty. These students will have received credit for the CHF 4710 class but will not have had the specialized preparation for 4720 (which they will be required to take as part of an early childhood option). To overcome this potential problem, we are proposing creating a separate class for students who are pursuing an elementary education certification (the proposed CHF 4711 course) to differentiate the experience of these students from students taking the CHF 4710 and 4720 courses together. As part of this proposed change, we plan to modify the course description and title for the CHF 4710 class to clarify that it is "Advanced Guidance and Planning for Early Childhood" and change the catalog description clarify the intended students who will be expected to complete the CHF 4710 course.

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1. Did this course receive unanimous approval within the Department?

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If not, what are the major concerns raised by the opponents?

2. If this is a new course proposal, could you achieve the desired results by revising an existing course within your department or by requiring an existing course in another department?

3. How will the proposed course differ from similar offerings by other departments? Comment on any subject overlap between this course and topics generally taught by other departments, even if no similar courses are currently offered by the other departments. Explain any effects that this proposal will have on program requirements or enrollments in other department. Please forward letters (email communication is sufficient) from all departments that you have identified above stating their support or opposition to the proposed course.

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