UNDERGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2013 – 2014 THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION
Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Care and Education)
BED PRIMARY OPTION ONLY: LEVEL: II SEMESTER: COURSE CODE: EDTL 3701 COURSE TITLE: DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDIATION: READING, WRITING AND MATHEMATICS AT THE PRIMARY LEVEL NUMBER OF CREDITS: 3 PRE-REQUISITES: NONE COURSE DESCRIPTION: Universal access to education is a major aim for children in the schools of Trinidad & Tobago and to a large extent, this has been achieved at both the primary and secondary levels of the education system. One challenge that seems to have burgeoned with this achievement is the number of children moving through the system with deficiencies in reading, writing, and/or mathematics skills. These deficits, when left unattended, at times escalate into behavior problems, class level failure, and given time, school dropout. Teachers are therefore finding that in order to discharge their duties professionally, part of their basic repertoire of skills must be the ability to diagnose these deficits, and plan and implement interventions for remediation of these deficits. This course aims to fill this critical need at the primary level and help participating teachers to provide pupils with the learning foundation expected of primary schooling. CONTENT: MODULE 1 – READING ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION • Measures of phonological and phonemic awareness, and oral fluency • The error analysis process • Measures of reading comprehension • Selecting the intervention to match the learning need • Developing and implementing interventions. MODULE 2 – WRITING ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION • Measures of written expression • Development, administration, and scoring of measures of written expression • The error analysis process • Development and implementation of instruction to introduce new skills and for necessary remediation • The writing process • Expository and narrative writing structures • Handwriting: teaching/learning and corrections • Qualitative scoring procedures for written expression MODULE 3 – MATHEMATICS ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION • The nature of learning disability/difficulty in mathematics • Diagnosing for teaching/learning in mathematics classrooms • Adapting Mathematics instruction for students with perceptual and cognitive processing deficits • Mathematics instruction for the gifted and talented. ASSESSMENT 100% Coursework.
PROFESSIONAL AND CONTENT COURSES COURSE LISTING LEVEL I SEMESTER Course Code EDEC 1501 EDEC 1504 EDEC 1502 EDEC 1503 LEVEL II SEMESTER Course Code EDEC 2025 EDEC 2022 EDEC 2021 EDEC 2024 EDEC 2011 LEVEL III SEMESTER Course Code EDSE 3001 EDEC 3326 EDEC 3002 EDEC 3010
Course Title Credits Early Education and Educational Intervention 3 Curriculum Development – Classroom Organisation and Parent Education 3 Health, Safety and Nutrition of the Young Child 3 Evaluation of Effectiveness of Early Childhood Education Programmes 3
Course Title Credits Appropriate Curriculum Models for Early Childhood Education 3 Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Education 3 Children in Action: Effective Curriculum Strategies for Use in Early Childhood Environments 3 Caring for Infants and Toddlers 3 Human Development: Advanced Studies 3
Course Title Credits Special Education/ Advanced Studies 3 Human Resource Management in ECCE* 3 Administration and Supervision of ECCE* 3 Fieldwork and Report 3 *ECCE: Early Childhood Care Environments
218 Return to Table of Contents Faculty of Humanities & Education Online