Welcome to my class

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Welcome to my class

• ECE 364 Survey of Theories Influencing Childhood
  Development

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Class Meeting

• Day Wednesdays
• Time 100 345 p.m.
• Location EdS 135

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Main Idea of this course

• This course provides a survey of learning
  theories and processes. Special emphasis will be
  placed on cognitive theory as related to learning
  and performance. Basic theories and beliefs will
  be linked to programs they have helped form.
  Special emphasis will be placed on current
  emerging theories of early childhood development.

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Textbook

• Morrison, G. S. (2007). Early Childhood Education
  Today (10th ed.) Upper Saddle River, N.J.
  Merrill Prentice Hall.
• Get the DVD
• Check out the publishers textbook website
  http//wps.prenhall.com/chet_morrison_earlychild_1
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Course Requirements

• 1. Three Exams
• 2. Advocacy Letter
• 3. Ethics Paper
• 4. Five field Observations
• 5. Quizzes
• 6. Professionalism

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Attendance Policy

• Professionalism Read all assigned chapters before
  they are due, complete any outside assignments,
  attend class, participate in discussion both in
  small group and large group, be on time, stay the
  entire time, turn in work on time and exhibit all
  other aspects of professionalism required by the
  EC profession (10). Do not automatically assume
  you will get these points. You will earn them.
  Points will be deducted for not being in class,
  not being on time, not discussing topics with the
  whole group, not producing quality work, etc.

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Participation Requirement

• Professionalism Read all assigned chapters before
  they are due, complete any outside assignments,
  attend class, participate in discussion both in
  small group and large group, be on time, stay the
  entire time, turn in work on time and exhibit all
  other aspects of professionalism required by the
  EC profession (10). Do not automatically assume
  you will get these points. You will earn them.
  Points will be deducted for not being in class,
  not being on time, not discussing topics with the
  whole group, not producing quality work, etc.

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Course website

• http//faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/
  jthompson/358/358F07.htm
• Resource from me to you
• Blog to update our F2F class meetings

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eCollege

• shortcut http//online.tamuc.org/
• Virtual Office
• Student Lounge
• Quizzes
• Discussion Boards
• Dropbox from you to me
• Doc Share from you to peers
• Gradebook

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Contact

• office EdS 221
• office hours Tues Wed 10 a.m. noon
• Virtual Office in eCollege
• email put 358 in the subject line
• office phone [phone]
• cell phone [phone]

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Blessings!

• "Don't be in any rush to become a teacher, my
  friends. Teaching is highly responsible work.
  Teachers are held to the strictest standards. And
  none of us is perfectly qualified. We get it
  wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If
  you could find someone whose speech was perfectly
  true, you'd have a perfect person, in perfect
  control of life."
• James 31-2
• (Eugene Peterson, The Message)

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Welcome to OUR class

• ECE 364 Survey of Theories Influencing Childhood
  Development