Become a qualified Early Childhood educator in Kansas! Join our Bachelor of Arts in Education program and support young learners. Apply now!
Program Description The field of teaching is one of our country’s most important social service professions. With a degree in Early Childhood Unified you will have gained the credentials for teaching children - birth through sixth grade - in Kansas schools with a special education emphasis in birth through third grade. The ECU program develops reflective practitioners who possess theoretical and practical developmental, educational, communicative, collaborative, and family- and child-centered skills. The ECU Program's advisory committee provides continual guidance to the program to assure that all candidates graduate with the belief that: all young children, birth through grade 3 (i.e., children with and without exceptionalities, at every socioeconomic level, from all cultures) are competent, creative and curious learners; working with, understanding, and respecting families is a critical component of working with young children; development and education are focused for each individual child in terms of the child's relation with the family, other children, teachers, the school community and society at large; children must learn through both constructing their own knowledge and by direct instruction; the unique needs of all young children must be met; and programs and services provided are based on law, and scientifically- and evidence-based practices.
