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Online BA in Liberal Studies: Early Childhood Leadership
Influence Young Learners with Expert Leadership Skills
Examine the academic and developmental needs of young learners with the online Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Leadership degree. You’ll study effective teaching methods, intercultural communication, early literacy, and special education, plus a variety of topics that explore your career goals through a selection of elective courses. Early childhood leadership success begins here.
Program Benefits:
- Become an expert leader for early childhood education centers
- Gain the credential to pursue graduate study and advance into teaching or management roles
- Learn on your schedule in an online classroom with diverse elective course options
- One-on-one instruction from expert faculty in a program that accepts up to 90 transfer credits
- Accelerated 6 or 7-week courses
Build a Foundation with Early Childhood Leadership Expertise
The online BA in Liberal Studies: Early Childhood Leadership degree requires the completion of 120 total credits, including Bay Path's core courses and the program’s major courses. The curriculum also allows you to customize your learning experience by choosing 38 credits of elective courses based on your professional interests.
Course Sampling
- Methods and Approaches in Teaching Children I
- Reading and Early Literacy
- Guiding Behavior in Early Childhood Classrooms
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What You’ll Learn
The online BA in Liberal Studies: Early Childhood Leadership degree delivers personalized instruction from expert educators and examines the foundations of childcare leadership. You’ll learn to guide behavior in early childhood classrooms and explore the essentials of childcare administration, principles of sociology, and the correlations between education and culture.
By Graduation, You’ll Have Skills to:
- Describe understanding of young children’s characteristics and needs, as well as multiple influences on development and learning
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of early childhood development to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments
- Articulate knowledge and understanding of engaging family and the community to support early childhood development and learning
- Develop understanding of assessment to know how to integrate into curriculum and instruction, including children with disabilities in early childhood classrooms
- Describe importance and understanding of creating positive relationships with young children and reflect on own teaching strategies to provide a positive early learning environment
- Identify developmentally appropriate teaching strategies and describe all resources for the early education classroom, such as use of technology
- Apply knowledge and understanding of main academic concepts to create, implement, and assess curriculum that is developmentally appropriate for the early childhood classroom
- Identify early childhood professional guidelines, advocacy resources for young children, and professional development opportunities to continuously improve as an early child educator
- Engage in observations and other field experiences in the early childhood classroom