Course Overview

Learning outcomes (LOs) serve as a valuable resource to guide your learning journey and ensure you can maximize your learning experience. The primary purpose of this section is to communicate the intended learning outcomes of the ECEL-5 Responsive Pedagogical Approaches in ECE course.

By outlining these outcomes, you will have a roadmap of the knowledge, skills, and competencies you will acquire throughout the course. These outcomes are carefully crafted to align with the overall goals and objectives of the course, ensuring that you are equipped with the necessary tools to succeed.

The learning outcomes for this course align with the content, activities, and assessments you will encounter, enabling you to track your growth and identify improvement opportunities. Within each module's section, an overview is provided, including the respective LOs that are relevant to that module. You are encouraged to review the learning outcomes thoroughly and to refer to them throughout your learning journey to support your success in completing all provided activities and assessments.  

Course Learning Outcomes

After completing all activities and assessments (32 total hours) in this open course, participants will:

• Analyze and critique the historical approaches in early childhood education and care to understand how these inherited practices continue.
• Drawing on contemporary pedagogical approaches, develop and articulate a personal pedagogical philosophy that fosters responsive education and care. equitable, inclusive, and socially just early years environments.
• Drawing on previous modules, participants will develop and articulate their own pedagogical philosophy and personal standpoints.