Department of Elementary Education Preschool Education Course Close-UP

Voluntary seminar -Support for local child care-
In the local child care support seminar, in collaboration with the child care support project in Hachioji City, we plan and manage parent-child events held three times a year while participating in gathering of parents and children with preschoolers, which are held regularly in the community. Students learn about the support, while getting to know the actual situation of parents who are caring children by interacting with parents and children through various playing such as traditional games such as nursery rhymes, storytelling of picture-story shows and picture books, productions that parents and children can play, handmade games, and exercise games. 

カリキュラム

In addition to improving study skills through life design seminar, students take each subject of education as theoretical and specialized learning. At the same time, from the 1st grade, they participate in volunteer activities at Teikyo University Kindergarten, local nursery schools, kindergartens, and welfare facilities, and learn practically and clinically. In the 3rd and 4th grade, they proactively engage in seminars and graduation research to complete the learning.

Syllabus

Syllabus of the Department of Elementary Education Preschool Education Course

Class Introduction

Childcare for children with disabilities
Currently, many daycare centers and kindergartens provide integrated childcare, and children with and without disabilities live together. In addition, some children may have a disability during going to kindergartens. In the class, students focus on the disabilities that nursery teachers often encounter, including developmental disabilities, and concretely understand examples of children in nursery centers and kindergartens after learning the basic knowledge of disabilities. Based on the above, they learn how to support and how to care for children with disabilities. In addition, they learn about cooperation with parents of children with disabilities and specialized institutions. In the class, we emphasize various group works and collaborate to learn and deepen understanding.

Childcare training guidance
In order to obtain a childcare worker qualification, it is necessary to carry out childcare training three times. For the training, it is important to make various preparations for the training and to look back after the training. Practical training is a class for the preparation and the looking back. Through classes and individual interviews with the instructors in charge, students clarify your own tasks and engage in practical training. We provide careful guidance according to each student's assignment. The first childcare training is held for two weeks at the nursery school during the spring vacation of the 2nd grade. Next, during the summer vacation of the 3rd grade, students practice at the facility for two weeks, mainly at institutional facilities such as orphanages, infant care centers, and support facilities for persons with disabilities. For the final childcare training in the 4th grade, they can choose either a nursery school or a facility according to your future direction and your own challenges. Furthermore, it is a unique feature of Teikyo University that the students themselves can develop their own training destinations and each student can practice the training in “One’s way”.

Guidance method for childcare content (health)
In the class, students learn about the contents of "health" that they should understand as a childcare worker in order to achieve the aim of the health area shown in the guidelines of kindergarten education and the nursery school childcare. In order to nurture the healthy mind and body of infants and to cultivate the ability to create a healthy and safe life by themselves, students learn about the situation with the basic to applied knowledge of, such as health and physical fitness of infants, exercise and nutrition, fatigue recovery and recreation, and sports and society surrounding children.
In addition, students learn the theory about the contents to be handled in daily childcare, including the acquisition of daily living habits, and based on that, we develop practical skills while incorporating simulated childcare to raise healthy mind and body by the interests in eating happily and experience the comfort of exercise.

成績評価と単位認定

Grading Criteria

About our GPA System

The intent behind our implementation of a GPA (Grade Point Average) system is to (1) create a unified standard for the campus, (2) have it function as an impartial standard, and (3) have it function as an internationally accepted standard. Our GPA system involves the assessment learning achievements using an objective numerical value called GPA. Additionally, this system generally conforms with the grade assessment systems adopted by universities in the West, and can be used overseas as an index used to certify a student’s academic ability when studying abroad, when going on to graduate school overseas, when finding employment at a non-Japanese companies operating in Japan, and so on.

Display of Grades and Assessment Criteria

GPA Calculation Method

Credit Recognition

1. Register for classes. Use CampusSquare to register for classes online and have your classes properly confirmed. You will need to do this for both the first and second semesters.
2. Students attend classes. There are 15 class in both the first and second semesters.
   Normally, 2-credit courses consist of attendance at each class (90 minutes) and preparation and review (about 2 hours each). In order to earn the credits, students must attend all classes (from the first to the 15th) as a matter of course, and also deepen their understanding through preparation and review.
3. Depending on subjects, students are required to take exam or submit reports (accreditation methods vary from lecturers).
4. Grades of S, A, B or C mean that students have passed the course and earned the credit. Grade of D means that students has failed the course and not earned any credit. If students receive a grade of D for a compulsory subject, they require to take it again the following year or later.
   Courses which students have already earned credit cannot be retaken.
5. About Academic Grades
   • Academic grades are assessed based on final examinations at the end of the semester (written exams, oral exams, practical exams, or reports). However, depending on courses, mini tests, reports, attendance, and academic progress during class may be evaluated as regular points, or assessments may be carried out based on the regular points only.
   • Academic grades are issued on the transcript with only the evaluation. 
   • Courses which students have passed once cannot be erased or retaken.
   • Grades will be published on Campus Square every semester.
   • If you have questions about your grades, such as not receiving a grade despite taking an exam (submitting a report) after the results have been announced, please come to school at the beginning of the next semester (in principle, by the first week of classes) and ask your teacher directly. If your teacher has left the school and you are unable to make inquiries, please notify the Academic Affairs Office.

Minimum number of credits required for graduation (For students enrolled in 2022)

• *1 If the number of credits earned in the comprehensive basic courses exceeds 12, the excess credits up to 8 will be approved as a credit in common elective courses.
• *2Some credits for each course of teaching profession and curator may be included in credits of specialized education subjects or general basic subjcts.
• *3 Excessive credits for elective compulsory subjects are included in the credits for elective course.