Thank You & Welcome!

Suzanne and Lynn!

Thank you both for be willing to help out with a few items connected with CCV and its Education and Early Childhood Education programs! There are really two main projects for us to turn our attention to over this academic year and I am so pleased to be working with you on them as I know you'll have a lot of great ideas!

Project 1: For core courses in the Education and Early Childhood Education programs, build a list of recommended/preferred texts and web resources. More on this in a moment...

Project 2: In the past, we have designed several courses within our Early Childhood program that include practical/scenario-based assignments that faculty could readily use as assignments and then later as an assessment tool. There are a couple of courses that we still have not built scenario-assessments for that I'd like us to work on so that we have a complete set for faculty teaching our core courses.

I'd like us to work on Project 1 first... as sooner than later faculty will need to choose texts and or have at their fingertips webs resources relevant to their courses!... Here is a list of courses that I'd like to have recommended texts/resources for:

Introduction to Early Childhood Education
Introduction to Exceptional Populations
Child Development
Communication in the Early Childhood Education Workplace
Foundations of Education
Teaching in a Global Community (replaces Multiculturalism in Education)
Teaching Methods for Literacy Development
Assessment in the Education Setting

So... my questions for you?...
- How would you both like to proceed with this task? I can provide the curricular outlines/EOs as we're working on this... let me know what you need!
- What is a reasonable timeline for this project?... I am hoping we could have some material built by the end of the calendar year... with a goal of having most resources developed by around mid-spring (March?) when folks will be choosing fall texts and looking for resources to build their courses? ...

I like the idea of using a blog for this... seems like we could accomplish most of what we need to in this format?