Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College · Courses
CDEV
9 courses with the subject CDEV, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CDEV 1230Positive Child Guidance3
This course provides students with an overview of major theories, principles, and techniques of positive discipline. We will also examine the adult’s role and reflect on how our own unique experience with punishment, anger and control affect our discipline style. This course requires students to spend a minimum of 30 hours at a licensed childcare/education setting.
CDEV 1240Working with Diverse Families and Children3
This course is designed to provide an overview of Culturally Sensitive Caregiving by assisting students to identify the influence of culture on childcare practices. Identifying and negotiating conflicts based on cultural values can help caregivers form partnerships with families that lead to more culturally consistent care for children and help strengthen the child’s feelings of security and developing identity. This course requires students to spend a minimum of 30 hours at a licensed child care/education setting.
This course provides an overview of observation methods used in home or center-based settings. Students will integrate knowledge of developmental needs, developmentally appropriate environments, effective caregiving, teaching strategies and observation methods.
This course presents an overview of knowledge and skills related to providing appropriate curriculum and environments for young children. Students will examine the role of the teacher in providing learning experiences to meet each child's needs, capabilities, and interests, and ways to implement the principles of developmentally appropriate practices. An overview of content areas including (but not limited to): physical/motor experiences, language and literacy, social and emotional learning, sensory learning, art and creativity, math and science will be covered.
Students demonstrate early childhood teaching competencies under guided supervision to make connections between theory and practice and developing professional behaviors. Students apply comprehensive understanding of children and families, developmentally appropriate, child-centered, play-oriented approaches to teaching and learning, and knowledge of curriculum content areas. They design, implement, and evaluate experiences that promote positive development and learning for all young children. Requires instructor permission. Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Catalog 2026-2027 Page 133 of 180
This course helps students understand children's behavior problems and identify intervention strategies to prevent and resolve problem behavior, use behavior modification techniques effectively, and design behavior plans.
CDEV 2610Organizational Leadership and Management2
The student will discuss personal and professional reasons for becoming a teacher, ways to advocate in this profession and will develop a plan for continuous education and professional development. Students will improve skills in working with others demonstrating strategies for team building, coping with stress, problem- solving, utilizing professional ethics and procedures for evaluating staff.
This course examines the development of children with special needs and prepares caregivers to integrate children with special needs into child development settings. This course requires students to spend a minimum of 30 hours at a licensed childcare/education setting. CDEV/EDUC 2640* 3 credits Curriculum Development This course provides an advanced level exploration of curriculum planning and management skills for the Pre-K to 3rd grade level. Students will integrate their knowledge of developmental needs, developmentally appropriate environments, practices, curricula and teaching methods to organize, implement, and evaluate quality, comprehensive curricula. Curricula models from both within and outside the United States will be explored. (Prerequisite: EDU Students: CDEV 1210 and HLTH 2100)
This course provides an opportunity to apply knowledge and skill in an early childhood setting. Students implement a variety of learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for and culturally sensitive to a specific age and group of children. Requires instructor permission.
