Early Childhood Education

Students pursuing licensing in Early Childhood Education will major in Psychology with a concentration in Child Development. For students seeking licensure, their student teaching is the substitute for the senior internship in Psychology.

Psychology Major Core Requirements:

PY 101 - Introduction to Psychology 
PY 340 - Research Design and Applied Statistics 
PY 341 - Community -Based Research Practicum and Applied Statistics
PY 490 - Senior Seminar 
PY 495 - Senior Internship or Supervised Student Teaching 

For Early Childhood Education Licensure students must make these selections in the core: 
    Psychology as a Social Science: 
        PY 305, Personality and Social Development of Children 
    Psychology as a Natural Science: 
        PY 309, Language Development

Child Development Concentration:
    PY216 - Child Development 
    PY217 - Childhood Disabilities 
    PY 309 - Language Development (required for licensure) 
        And/or PY 307 - Children's Thinking
     Two of the Following: 
        PY 264 - Psychology of Adolescence 
        PY 305 - Personality and Social Development in Children 
        PY 328 - Psychological Testing 
        PY 234 - Cross-Cultural Psychology or PY 300 - Race, Class and Gender (not both)

Early Childhood Education Studies:
    ED 102 - Foundations of Education 
    ED 215 - Curriculum for Early Childhood: Management, Methods and Materials 
    CS/ED - 206 Exploring Technology in the Classroom 
    ED 233 - Special Education, Assessment, and the Inclusionary Classroom 
    ED 206 - Teaching and Assessment of Reading and Language Arts 
    ED 327 - Curriculum: The Frameworks 
    ED 324 - Teaching of Math and Science for Young Children

    Electives: 
        ED/MU 210 - Music and Movement 
        ED 355 - Diagnostic and Remedial Reading

    Practicum: (Student Teaching Practicum and Seminar)
        ED 494 - 100 Hrs in Pre-K or Kindergarten and seminar
        ED 496 - 300 hours in grades 1-2 (setting with children with disabilities) and seminar

Group and other Requirements:
In order to satisfy the substantive learning objectives for licensing, based on the MA Curriculum Frameworks, students seeking licensing with an English major should seek to fulfill their group requirements with the following courses.

Recommended for Students who wish to pursue Early Childhood Education licensure:
    EN 112 - World Literature or EN 111, Mythology and Literature
    HI 111 - United States History I or United States History II
    PS 111 - American Government and Politics
    RE 100 - World Religions
    SO 310 - Family in Society

Required for Licensure Candidates:
EN100 - The Structure of English
TH251 - Theatre for Children
IDS/ED 212 - The Picture Book: Children's Beginning Literature