Rochester Community and Technical College · Courses
ECCE
10 courses with the subject ECCE, 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.
ECCE 1001Introduction to Early Childhood Care and Education3
2 hours lecture/week - 2 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline A career working with young children is based on respecting, valuing, seeing, hearing, and attending to children with compassion. This course helps students build attuned, responsive relationships with children. In addition, this course examines the profound influence of the early years on children's lifelong learning and development, the history, principles, and key elements of high-quality early childhood care and educational practices. Students will begin to build their practices of effective teaching through meaningful conversation, asking questions, critical thinking, self-reflection, and collaboration with others in our community. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is designed to provide an overview of typical development from birth through adolescence, including physical, social/emotional, and cognitive development. It integrates developmental theory with appropriate practices in a variety of caregiving, community and educational settings. (
2 hours lecture/week - 2 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline Students will examine and identify physical and mental distress, identify how to nurture children’s mental health, and recognizing child abuse, trauma, neglect, and maltreatment. Discuss and identify our role as mandated reporter and recognize the importance of educating healthy food choices, providing safe environments, that support the healthy development of the whole child. (
ECCE 1232Positive Guidance and Social-Emotional Development3
2 hours lecture/week - 2 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline Early childhood teachers establish warm sensitive relationships with children, communicate positively by creating a sense of belonging and community in the classroom. Early childhood teachers design and establish a learning space that promotes relationships, routines, models empathy for others, and identifies challenging behavior triggers. Students will apply, examine, and study social-emotional development to support children’s overall physical, mental health and wellbeing. (
ECCE 1235Intentional Teaching through Learning Environments3
TOTAL………………………………………………………………………………………….16 CREDITS PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Upon completion of the Child Development program at RCTC, students will achieve the following outcomes: • Establish and maintain respectful, responsive, and reciprocal relationships with children and families. • Promote child development and learning. • Use developmentally effective approaches. • Make informed professional decisions based on professional knowledge, reflection and critical thinking, and collaboration. • Successfully complete clinical experiences in a variety of settings. ADDITIONAL NOTES: PURPOSE: The purpose of the Child Development certificate is to provide specialized training and education that develops student’s professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work as aides and assistants with young children in a variety of settings. Notice of Minnesota Background Check Requirement Minnesota Statute 245C requires that students who have contact with individuals in licensed institutions complete an annual background study with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Individuals who do not pass the background check will not be allowed to participate in clinical activities. A list of disqualifying offenses is available at https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=245C.15. Information about completing the background study will be available from program faculty. Revised: 12/10/2024 Implementation: Fall 2025
2 hours lecture/week - 2 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline Children demonstrate what they know and can do through everyday experiences. Effective early childhood teachers carefully observe children throughout the day to understand children’s perspectives, interpret their development, plan curriculum, and document learning. This course builds on knowledge of child development through the study of naturalistic observation, authentic assessment, screening, formal evaluation, and documentation of learning. Students will use a variety of informal observation methods. Student will demonstrate and practice observational data collecting to analyze a child’s developmental behaviors using an assessment tool to scaffold for development and learning. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline Children are born into and experience belonging and connectedness in their families, culture, and community. Early childhood educators recognize that families are the child’s first and most important teacher, that children come from many different backgrounds, and that children thrive when culturally responsive practices provide continuity of care and learning. This course examines family-centered care, cross-cultural communication, culturally responsive practices, and family engagement to promote children’s development and academic success. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline Children learn to talk, read, and write in the early years. Effective early childhood teachers use the language of learning, select meaningful children’s books, tell stories, provide materials that invite children to experiment with print, and support multilingual learners. This course focuses on language and literacy development with an emphasis on promoting early literacy skills, concepts of print, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. Students will develop resources, select materials, set up provocations, and practice strategies that support language and literacy development of young children. (
ECCE 2630Teaching Young Children with Exceptionality3
2 hours lecture/week - 2 hours lab/week - Common Course Outline Young children with exceptions benefit from early intervention and inclusive practices. Effective early childhood teachers believe all children can succeed, set high expectations, remove barriers, and provide individualized accommodations that honor family’s priorities. This course examines exceptionalities of children, disability rights, the impact on families, explores the importance of individualized teaching and learning that supporting all children to be successful in the classroom. (
