Early Childhood EducationLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The students are familiar with the legislation and documents controlling early childhood education. The students know individual, communal and societal factors related to childhood. The students are aware of the significance of parental engagement and multiprofessionalism in early childhood education work. The students know the essential health problems of children.

Content

documents and legislation controlling early childhood education, services of early childhood education, parental engagement, multiprofessionalism, recent studies on early childhood education, health problems of children at different stages of life; their treatment, rehabilitation and health promotion and welfare of children and their families.

Qualifications

Student knows the services for the children and families. They also recognise the main characteristics of the growth and development of children.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Very good - Excellent (4-5):
The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on an excellent level. The student participates in contact lessons and conversations in online environment and he/she completes the given assignments. In written assignments, he/she shows excellent capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and to consider them critically. He/she knows how to utilize both Finnish and English sources. The students follow the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Good (3): The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on a good level. The student participates in contact lessons and the conversations in online environment and he/she completed the given assignments. In written assignments, he/she shows capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and to utilize sources. The students follow the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Sufficient - Satisfactory (1-2):
The student demonstrates to have reached the learning objectives of the course on a satisfactory level. The student participates occasionally in contact lessons and only a little or not at all in conversation in online environment. He/she completes the agreed assignments satisfactorily. In written assignments, he/she shows modest capabilities to describe the subjects of the course and he/she utilizes sources very little. The student follows only partly the reporting instructions of Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences.
Fall (0): The student does not achieve the objectives and the competences of the course. Written tasks are not completed.