2020-2021 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECE 221 - Early Childhood Internship 1

3 CR
Students will need to successfully pass a criminal background check and a State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Child Abuse and Neglect Registry (CANR) according to College and Department policy. Students work in early childhood settings to gain professional work experience in the application of competencies based on the NAEYC standards for associate degree programs. Students must be able to meet site requirements, which may include a health physical and a TB check. Students must complete a minimum of 275 clock hours of work experience and must file and receive an approved internship application with the Early Childhood Education office prior to registering. Lab Fee

Additional Information: Department approval based on successful completion of internship application.
Requisites: (1) Take ECE 201 , ECE 210 , ECE 215 , ECE 224 , ECE 232 , and ECE 233  with at least a grade of C (AND) (2) Take ENGL 151 ENGL 151H , or ENGL 152  with at least a grade of C.
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Implement your early childhood philosophy when assuming your role as an early childhood education professional in your designated field experience.
  2. Show warmth and respect toward children in all interactions incorporating appropriate positive guidance techniques and establishing nurturing social and emotional environments for young children in designated field experience.
  3. Implement professionalism in work habits, attitudes, knowledge of the field, and performance in the field experience and seminar.
  4. Facilitate young children’s healthy growth and development by providing developmentally appropriate learning experiences supporting all domains and according to best practice for all children.
  5. Arrange appropriate physical environments that promote young children’s healthy growth and development based on the resources available.
  6. Analyze one’s teaching practice with the NAEYC Standards of Professional Preparation and State of Michigan Core Knowledge and Core Competencies for the Early Care and Education Workforce.
  7. Communicate positively and effectively with diverse families in designated field experience.
  8. Use appropriate assessment to construct individualized, intentional, and challenging learning experiences across disciplines for children in the designated field experience.
  9. Reflect on the field experience to plan methods to increase professional proficiency.
  10. Apply developmentally appropriate techniques when completing at least 275 clock hours of field experience in an approved early childhood setting serving children ages birth to 8 years.