Creating Healthy, Safe Environments for Infants (AIMO640) - EDC-X762J
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Course Description
Credit Validation for the Montessori Institute of San Diego (MISD)
This course provides students with the skills to design a prepared environment for infants. The student will learn to plan an entire environment, complete with areas for sleeping, eating, working and hygiene, in order to foster health and safety. There will be a strong emphasis on how interpersonal relationships affect the child. Teaching the students methods of guidance without interference, promoting self-help, and eliminating unnecessary aid to the child are primary goals for the course.
Learner Outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of the preparation of the environment from birth to 5 months and from 5 to 12 months and how environment and interpersonal relationships foster healthy and safe development in children
- Explain Montessori’s theory of education as an “aid to life” throughout the social stages of development and identify obstacles to movement, language, freedom and independence in the children's environment
- Understand of how to prioritize various techniques of parental support and classroom organization and be able to implement them when practice teaching
- Prepare an appropriate environment for the different ages in any community. This opportunity will allow them to share with others their knowledge and understanding of how optimum child development can be promoted through a prepared environment
- Speak at community centers, or other educational facilities which provide community services, on various topics related to child development, independence, nutrition, or anything else they feel addresses the needs of the particular community
- Employ culturally sensitive strategies, taking into account the child's family history and cultural background in both classroom matters and interaction with parents
Course Details
Number of Units: 3.0 graduate level extension credit(s) in semester hours
Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for teachers at the Montessori Institute of San Diego.
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