Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Recognize and support normal physical, emotional, social, language and cognitive development of the three and four year old child.
• Demonstarte knowledge of children’s age-appropriate learning experiences from the preschool laboratory setting.
• Discuss options for age-appropriate discipline and guidance techniques.
• Discuss ways to enhance their preschooler's imaginative, creative play and learning opportunities through direct interaction with the parent, an appropriate environment, and similar-aged playmates.
• Demonstrate techniques for keeping their child safe and healthy, while providing enriched spaces to play and explore.
• Compare temperament research with the unique temperamental characteristics of their child.
• Identify opportunities to observe the necessity of shifting their parenting role as their child initiates ideas through play to control themselves and their environment.
• Plan opportunities to use the other parent-students in their class as a support system for their job as parents.
• Define the importance of taking care of themselves and building their own self-esteem as a key element of effective parenting.
• Locate community resources for a variety of parenting and familial situations.
• Implement leadership options to contribute to governance and management of the overall running of the class.