Faculty Expectations

Hi Suzanne!
You won't get this probably until you return home but I thought it might be a good idea to have something like this to guide students through the course. Check it out and let me know what you think - then we can complete it.... we also should think about a grading expectations document, attendance or anything else we feel is important to add to our documents file. I'll try giving you a call on Sunday.

Faculty Expectations Lynn Silvestro and Suzanne Purcell

NOTE: Read, reply to, and then print this faculty expectations message for frequent future reference!

Welcome to EDU- 2045 – Curriculum Development for Early Childhood Education. This is a long note, but it contains information about this course and what is expected of you that you will want to know. Our goals as facilitators of this course are to help you learn about curriculum development for early childhood education and apply that learning as you create your own curriculum as the final project for this course. You will gain experience learning through our textbook, shared discussions in the forum, feedback from instructors, working on assignments and through other sources. The text is designed for the beginning student but can also be used by experienced teachers looking for current early childhood philosophies, curriculum resources, fresh ideas, or insights.

The requirements are somewhat aggressive for this course. You have a lot of reading, a lot of writing, and a lot of due dates. The key to performing successfully in this course is carefully reading all of the instructions provided for the discussion postings, assignments and study activities before you attempt to complete them. There are expectations built into nearly every week through discussion postings, assignments and critical reflection.

Because of the aggressive schedule for this course, it is important that you not fall behind. It will be difficult to catch up, especially with the postings. For this reason, we ask that you have your initial responses posted by Friday and responses to other students completed by Sunday. Learners who save their work until the weekend are not able to keep up with the aggressive schedule. If you anticipate that you will be absent from the forum for an entire week, try to post assignments early, ahead of time. Always contact your instructors if you know you will be out or have other problems. We can make adjustments as needed – we realize that life happens.

Your final project will consist of a curriculum that you create. Each week you will be tasked with a piece or pieces of the curriculum to complete so that by the end of the course your project will be complete. Each assignments can be tweaked before submitting your final curriculum and you will receive feedback on each piece as they are submitted.

We can add the weekly assignments that can work into their curriculum - I'll work on a curriculum model to put under documents for them to use as a possible template....
Lynn

Below is a schedule of assignments towards completion of your curriculum.