ECE120: Development of Appropriate Skills in Children
This course ECE 120 – Development of Appropriate Skills in Children is a two credit unit course. It is one of the courses designed for Early Childhood Education students at the undergraduate level. It is a one semester course available at the first semester to all students pursuing B.Ed. Early Childhood Education of the National Open University of Nigeria.
The overall aim of ECE 120: Development of Appropriate Skills in Children is to equip you with the knowledge of the living and learning skills that children need to develop and acquire in the process of their development. This knowledge would be found not only useful but highly rewarding to you as an early childhood educator on the one hand and as a “would be parents” or parents onthe other hand.
There are some specific objectives set out to achieve the overall aim of this course. Every unit has specific objectives in addition. The unit objectives are stated in behavioural/ achievable terms at the beginning of each of the units. They are meant for you to read before you start working through the unit. You can also refer to them as you start working through the unit. You 6can also refer to them as you work through the course unit to check how far you are progressing. At the end of the unit, try to refer to the objectives again to ensure you have achieved them. In this way you make sure that you have done what you are required to do.
This course guide introduces you briefly about the course itself, how you can work your way through the course material, suggestions and guidelines on the time to spend on each unit and on your tutor marked assignment in order to be highly successful in the course. There are regular tutorial classes that are provided on this course in your study centre. You are advised to attend these tutorial sessions.