Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College · Courses
ECE
14 courses with the subject ECE, 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.
ECE 295Field Experience for Practicing Early Childhood Educators3
This course uses an internship education approach comprised of field placement hours and weekly seminars. Students in 295 will be supervised during their current, off-campus full-time work (to count as the early childhood field experience) and will practice strategies learned in previous coursework as well as in weekly seminars under the direction and supervision of Penn State Early Childhood Instructors. Learning opportunities for students will include designing and implementing holistic experiences and associated assessment practices to support all young children, 0-5 years old. In seminars and in the field, support will
ECE 353Parent Involvement in Home, Center, and Classroom Instruction3
This course is designed to apprentice teachers in early childhood education to the policies, theories, practices, skills, and knowledge(s) of home-school, community-school partnerships in the globally diversifying 21st century. Students will learn about and discuss family uniqueness and strengths. Very few families are "traditional," and no two families are alike. Teachers must learn to recognize what makes a family unique and the individual strengths that children and families bring into the classroom. Students will consider using this knowledge in the development of effective family engagement programs for their school and classroom. Experiences are active, challenging, and designed to help students work effectively with families and see teaching as an active engagement for understanding, communication, partnership building, and ultimately social change.
/Maximum of 18 Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
/Maximum of 9 Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject that may be topical or of special interest. Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMSC)
ECE 572Issues and Trends in Early Childhood Education3
/Maximum of 9 Research, experimental programs, and emerging trends in early childhood education; relationships between educational experiences and later intellectual and emotional development. Graduate - The Pennsylvania State University 2026-2027 1063
ECE 587Curriculum, Culture, and Child Development3
Examines human development and cultural factors in planning, designing, and implementing curriculum and instruction in early childhood and childhood education. Cross-listed with: CIED 587
/Maximum of 9 Creative projects, including nonthesis research, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
