2020-2021 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Early Childhood Education Technology
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Advisers: Barham, Ross
- Offered at Senatobia campus only
Career Certificate
Technical Certificate
Associate of Applied Science
Early Childhood Academy
The Early Childhood Academy collaborates with participating community and junior colleges, the Mississippi Department of Human Services, and child care providers to ensure that Mississippi’s family-based unified and integrated early childhood system connects and integrates resources and services for both parents/caregivers and their children. The office is also responsible for establishing an Early Childhood Academy with a Resource and Referral Center at participating community colleges and Families First to deliver professional development for all centers, delivering and managing technical assistance and coaching, and providing leadership to the Resource and Referral offices.
The Early Childhood Academy (ECA) offers a variety of services and programs designed to meet the early education needs of children across the state of Mississippi. Our services include resources and referral; assistance for families searching for child care; training, coaching, and technical assistance for early childhood professionals; and working with other service organizations and the business community.
Coaches and Professional Development Specialists work with early childhood professional in child care centers to support the improvement and quality of classroom instruction, the classroom environment, and teacher-child interaction by: Encouraging, supporting, motivating, and working interactively with teachers and assistant teachers to develop and implement ongoing goals. Supporting the teacher and teacher assistant to provide a learning atmosphere and opportunities which promote: the child’s growth and development, approaches to learning, social-emotional development, creative arts, science, and mathematics. Assisting teachers and assistant teachers to structure environments, routines, and interactions that contribute to positive social-emotional outcomes for the children and families in a program.
Focusing on specific tasks, skills, or techniques which can be mastered and measured. Implementing developmentally appropriate infant and toddler teaching techniques and search-based curriculum for infant, toddler, and preschool aged classrooms.
Resource Center
The Lending Library is a collection of age-appropriate early childhood resources with a variety of learning materials that include: multiple books, games, puppets, etc., for the use of parents and providers who serve early learners. Items available for lending include puzzles, age-appropriate books, sensory items, infant and toddler resources, dramatic play materials, and much more. Materials are distributed on a “borrow basis” to providers and families. The Resource and Referral Associate is in the Resource Center to help with all of your needs.
For more information please contact Heather Perryman at hperryman@northwestms.edu or 662-560-4201.
Northwest Child Enrichment Center
The Northwest Child Enrichment Center is located in the Marilyn R. Spears Building on the Senatobia campus. It is operated by the Early Childhood Education Technology program and licensed by the Mississippi Department of Health.
The center is open to preschool children (3-4 years of age) of Northwest faculty, staff, and students as well as children from the surrounding community. Information on the application process and fee schedule can be obtained at the center.
For more information please contact Center Director Ann Ross at aross@northwestms.edu.
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