{"@id":"https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-1d1052c8-c05a-4446-8401-55d96b4fe672","@type":"ceterms:AssociateDegree","@context":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/schema/context/json","ceterms:ctid":"ce-1d1052c8-c05a-4446-8401-55d96b4fe672","ceterms:name":{"en-US":"Associate of Science - Early Childhood Education (Adult \u0026 Graduate Programs)"},"ceterms:ownedBy":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-67c20b04-d34d-4201-ab1a-e058ca08b37e"],"ceterms:inLanguage":["en"],"ceterms:description":{"en-US":"completion of the program, candidates will demonstrate the ability to assist educators, families, children, and organizations as a para-professional.\n\nMission and Objectives\nIndiana Wesleyan University's A.S. in Early Childhood Education program is a sixty (60) credit hour undergraduate program emphasizing the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of an early childhood educator working with children from birth through age eight. This program does not lead to teacher licensure.\n\nUpon completion of the program, candidates should be able to:\n- Exhibit the School of Educational Leadership's professional dispositions by demonstrating moral decision-making, upholding ethical standards with all stakeholders, and reflecting Christ-like behavior as the foundation of work with families, young children, and communities.\n- Actively support child development and developmentally appropriate learning experiences for all children in child care, classroom, home, and community settings.\n- Collaborate to establish safe, healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments, where young children have access to quality learning opportunities that inspire and set the stage for growth across the developmental domains.\n- Initiate and think professionally in a timely manner to support predetermined management policies and procedures; act professionally in regard to unforeseen management issues and concerns.\n- Assist to deliver developmentally appropriate content-rich purposeful curriculum emphasizing the integration of topics and disciplines; support the integration of academic standards and child development impacting contextual factors and individual/group interests, needs, and learning styles.\n- Exhibit the knowledge and understanding needed to support positive, respectful, and reciprocal relationship-based interactions as a foundation to support, empower, and engage young children and families.\n- Apply constructivist (Vygotsky) theoretical framework into practice throughout academic disciplines to support inquiry-based, play-based, open-ended, project-based, and problem-based learning experiences.\n- Participate in informed advocacy for young children, families, and the early childhood profession through multiple types of advocacy (citizen, issue-based, self, group, peer, statutory, family, and friend).\n- Demonstrate proficiency in executing a wide range of developmentally appropriate effective approaches, tools, resources, and strategies to meet the unique needs of all learners including technology, inquiry-based, project-based, problem-based, UDL, RTI, and differentiation practices.\n- Demonstrate skills in systematic and responsible assessment skills including observing, documenting, and analyzing to support early learning.\n- Practice servant leadership philosophy and principles in approach to clinical and service experiences by serving to put the needs of others first, sharing power, aspiring to lead after trust and relations are earned and built, and helping young children, families, and communities develop and perform as highly as possible."},"ceterms:subjectWebpage":"https://www.indwes.edu/adult-graduate/programs/as-early-childhood-education","ceterms:availableOnlineAt":["https://www.indwes.edu/adult-graduate/programs/as-early-childhood-education"],"ceterms:availabilityListing":["https://www.indwes.edu/adult-graduate/programs/as-early-childhood-education"],"ceterms:credentialStatusType":{"@type":"ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject","ceterms:framework":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/CredentialStatus","ceterms:targetNode":"credentialStat:Active","ceterms:frameworkName":{"en-US":"CredentialStatus"},"ceterms:targetNodeName":{"en-US":"Active"}}}