Early Childhood Education - Point University

Early Childhood Education from Point University is a Campus Bachelor Early Childhood Education degree that prepares you for a Education career. The Bachelor of Science degrees in Early Childhood Education are designed to prepare teachers to work with children in preschool through the fifth grade. The Early Childhood Education Major requires 66 semester hours of Education courses. The student progresses from General Studies courses and 11 semester hours of foundational education courses into the Teacher Education Program (TEP), which is three semesters of teacher education courses with field experiences and one semester of student teaching experience in a local public elementary school. The purpose of the Early Childhood Education Program at ACC is to equip each student to be an effective practitioner and mentor teacher. A caring, effective mentor teacher is one who nurtures each child and fulfills the responsibilities of providing developmentally appropriate learning experiences to meet the needs, capabilities, and interests of individual children in pre-kindergarten through grade five. A caring, effective mentor teacher also recognizes and respects individual differences and emphasizes the acquisition of essential skills, concepts, knowledge, and the development of critical thinking, ethical and lawful social behavior and responsible citizenship. View more details on Point University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Early Childhood Education courses.