Course Type	Course Code	No. Of Credits
Foundation Core	SVS1EC404	1

Semester and Year Offered: Winter Semester-4, Year-2019

Course Coordinator and Team: Fariha Siddiqui, Dr Sunita Singh and Sheetal Nagpal

Email of course coordinator: fariha@aud.ac.in

Pre-requisites: The course focuses on the job role of supervisor (Level-6) in an early childhood centre. The course is meant to be offered to those who have specific knowledge and skills related to Day care facilitator (Level-5) offered in 1st year and skills of supervisors offered in semester-3 of the programme

Objectives:

The specific objectives of the course are to help students:

Develop professional skills of successful entrepreneurs
Reflect on the personality of entrepreneurs
Plan inclusive learning environment for the diverse learners
Learn practical skills to engage diverse learners

Course Outcomes:

After completing the workshop, students will be able to:

Provide hands on experience to students for their development as entrepreneurs of early childhood centres
Create inclusive settings in a day care centre
Plan and conduct activities with children of diverse age groups and abilities.
Demonstrate skills to engage all children in afterschool program
Build positive relationships in children and staff at the centre

Brief description of modules/ Main modules:

Developing the ‘Professional’ Self

This workshop will build upon the ‘self-development’ workshop of semester-1. The sessions will help students to become open, reflective, curious, confident and organized early childhood practitioners. The workshops will also enable students to see their field placement sites as potential work spaces, engage with them and begin to understand the system and the field and learn about the professional self of their field supervisors.

Week	Topic	Objectives	Suggested readings
1-2	Professional ethics	Understand the professional ethics and attitudes to work as a supervisor	Coombe, K., & Newman, L. (1997). Ethics in Early Childhood Field Experiences. Journal for Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 1, 1-9. Brodhead, M. T., &Higbee, T. S. (2012). Teaching and maintaining ethical behavior in a professional organization. Behavior analysis in practice, 5(2), 82-88.
3-4	Abilities and attitudes	Reflect upon the abilities, attitudes and work efficiently as a team player
5-6	Increasing productivity	Reflect on the personal practices, behaviour and work style to increase productivity.
7-8	Team player	Understand the attributes of a team player
9-10	Placement site	Engage with the field placement site as a potential worksite

Sl.No.	Assessment Type	Weightage
1.	In class participation and attendance	20%
2.	Short in-class assessments	40%
3.	Term end Assessment	40%

Developing the ‘Professional’ Self (workshop)