Les infos clés
En résumé
During the early childhood years children gain knowledge and skills that provide the foundation for later learning. Young children learn many of these skills through the interactions they have with their teachers. This course is intended to increase teachers’ knowledge about specific types of teacher-child interactions that promote young children’s development. The course will focus on helping teachers to offer emotionally supportive interactions to the children in their care.
Le programme
Week One – Creating Emotionally Supportive
Classrooms:
We’ll take a closer look at the importance of interactions and the power that teachers have in the development of young children. This week will include an overview of the areas and dimensions of the Teaching through Interactions Framework. For this course, we’ll focus specifically on the area of Emotional Support.
Week Two – Building Positive Relationships
with Children – The dimension of Positive Climate:
This week will focus on the first dimension of Emotional Support – Positive Climate. You’ll learn about the importance of Positive Climate, see examples of real teachers as they demonstrate effective Positive Climate interactions with their students, and get a chance to analyze what you’re seeing. There will also be an optional homework assignment in which you will videotape your own teaching interactions with children and then analyze what you see based on what you have learned about Positive Climate.
Week Three – Providing Individualized Support
to Young Children – The dimension of Teacher Sensitivity:
This week will focus on the next dimension of Emotional Support – Teacher Sensitivity. You’ll learn about the importance of sensitive interactions with children and what sensitive interactions look like in real classrooms. You’ll have the opportunity to analyze classroom videos based on what you know about Teacher Sensitivity. Again, there will be an optional homework assignment in which you will videotape your own teaching and analyze your interactions looking specifically at the dimension of Teacher Sensitivity.
Week Four – Supporting Children’s
Independence and Sense of Self – The dimension of Regard for Child Perspectives:
In the final week, you’ll learn about the last Emotional Support dimension – Regard for Child Perspectives. You’ll learn how important it is for young children to have opportunities for their voices and perspectives to be heard, as well as how to foster children’s feelings of self-efficacy and positive self-concepts through your daily interactions. In addition to opportunities to view and analyze classroom interactions based on your knowledge of Regard for Child Perspectives, you’ll have an optional homework assignment allowing you to do the same thing with videotape of your own classroom interactions. Finally, we’ll sum up all that you have learned about all of the dimensions of Emotional Support across the course.
Les intervenants
- Sarah Lydic - Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)
- Kathy Neesen - Curry School of Education
- Grace Funk - Curry School of Education
- Allison Leach - Curry School of Education
- Bridget Hamre - Curry School of Education
Le concepteur
L’université de Virginie (appelée aussi UVA, UVa, Virginia) se trouve sur la côte Est des États-Unis à Charlottesville, dans l'État de Virginie. C'est aussi un site inscrit depuis 1987 au patrimoine mondial de l’Humanité défini par l’UNESCO. L’université a été fondée en 1819 par Thomas Jefferson, l’auteur de la Déclaration d’indépendance et le troisième président américain.
L'université de Virginie est un établissement d'enseignement supérieur public réputé qui appartient au réseau Universitas 21. Toujours classée dans le top 25 des universités américaines, elle fait également partie des « Public Ivies », un réseau regroupant les meilleures universités publiques du pays, qui sont réputées dispenser un enseignement au niveau comparable à celui des établissements de la Ivy League.
La plateforme
Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formations en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.
