Experience is the best teacher, so review perspectives of students with whom I worked:
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES – What am I expected to learn?
We will learn:
THEMES & TOPICS – What are the “big ideas” in Child Development? Children learn what they live: Your philosophy of parenting and child development, basic and major theories of child development, contemporary, Western (American) parenting through the lens of other cultures with “Parenting without Borders”, and early brain development. If children can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn: Attachment security, temperament, and discipline. Successful pregnancy, labor, and delivery depend on the awareness and acceptance of each process: Family planning (ovulation), prenatal development, teratogens, and stages of labor and delivery. All children grow and develop in similar patterns, but each child develops at his/her own pace: Cognitive, language/speech, gross and fine motor skills, and social-emotional development. Play is the highest form of research: Service-learning at preschool. |
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Human Relations
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES – What am I expected to learn?
We will learn:
Without communication, there is no relationship. Speak in such a way that others care to listen to you, and listen in such a way that others care to speak to you: Effects of personality sex/gender on communication style, nonverbal behaviors, impact of technology on quality of communication, conflict, and apology style. We complicate love. A lack of boundaries invites a lack of respect. Respect yourself to know you deserve the very best: 21st century dating, Sternberg’s theory of love, love languages, and characteristics of “healthy” and “unhealthy/abusive” relationships. Sexual awareness is all about restoring your power to choose what you want: Your sex questions answered, the “right” time to have sex, safe/healthy, sexual decision-making. |
INDEPENDENT LIVING
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES – What am I expected to learn?
We will learn:
THEMES & TOPICS – What are the “big ideas” in Independent Living? It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are: Self-assessment of decision-making abilities, application of a rational and responsible decision-making model, analysis of values in relation to decisions, and the development of S.M.A.R.T. goals. Professionalism means consistency of quality: Think critically about interests, skills, values, and education/training in relation to career choices, research on a career cluster, compare career development programs, build your capacity as a professional (e.g., use technology to market self to employers, the 21st century workplace, employer benefits). What are you doing to make your community/our world better? Examine the role of government taxation and its effect on citizens, own your civic responsibilities and engage with your community, file a 1040EZ tax return. Financial literacy frees you from the what-ifs of life: Financial institutions, basic banking skills (Deposit in-person and online, check safety and security, debit card, online transactions, digital wallets), credit (score and report, impact on purchasing power, types of credit: student loans and credit cards, debt management). Your identity, so protect it. Your responsibility, so do it: Safeguarding habits to minimize exposure to identity theft. The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a WHAT-THE-HELL attitude – Julia Child: Practice professional food preparation and techniques across five cooking labs in the kitchen, as well as participation in a "skillathon". If you don’t know your options, you don’t have any: Consumer skills and its application to decisions about housing and transportation (i.e., its acquisition and maintenance). |
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