Early Childhood Education - Vanderbilt University

Welcome to the Department of Teaching and Learning 

Understudies discover Peabody's Department of Teaching and Learning through the clearing stone stairs and stately portions of the Faye and Joe B. Wyatt Center, the wonderful domed building that sits at the pioneer of Peabody's grounds. Yet, that is the spot any similitude to an ivory tower closes. Workforce in the Department of Teaching and Learning put as much vitality in the classrooms and entries of Nashville's administration financed schools as they do in the course rooms of the school, inciting a part of the best-organized new instructors in the country.

"Our understudies have a remarkable level of directed sponsorship as they work in field positions, uniting the theory they learn on grounds with practice in certified classrooms" says Professor Rogers Hall, Chair of the Department. "These experiences, joined with access to workforce who know energy inspect and are by and by familiar with how kids learn, make for an uncommon framework."

"Since we hope to get prepared instructors who are fruitful from their first day, our undertaking has a remarkably rich course of action of field experiences that gives understudies who are searching for certification with the capacities and data they need to begin their master lives," says Hall. "Understudies enthused about guideline who are not searching for accreditation advantage pretty much as from these fit experiences, as they use our field experiences as an approach to understand the usages of speculative data about learning, appearing and progression that can be associated in a collection of settings."

Early Childhood Education at Vanderbilt is a field-arranged undertaking expected to get prepared understudies for work with children in preschool programs and the fundamental assessments. The major gets prepared understudies for licensure in pre-kindergarten through third grade. The framework's exceptional focus on adolescents' developmental thinking and thinking gets prepared majors for work in both school and non-school settings that incorporate training, bolster, methodology, and easygoing learning opportunities.

Segments of the Program 

Understudies majoring Early Childhood Education incorporate a second non-preparing major, required for instructor licensure and including gainful preparation for a wide arrangement of master decisions. Second majors every now and again clearly supplement the Early Childhood requirements, propelling understudy change through a various lensed-approach to manage preparing. Besides, the undertaking of studies for Early Childhood Education majors contains around 60 hours of liberal instructional classes that are assumed control over the University.


Beginning in the first year, understudies visit and watch classrooms in close-by schools and workplaces. Field experiences end up being more focused and sharpen driven through the sophomore and junior years, with a full semester of Student Teaching in senior year. These certified classroom experiences, in conjunction with school course work, offer understudies some help with incorporating educational theory, examination, and classroom sharpen. Advancement is joined all through the ventures to support understudies' learning. Likewise, workforce insightful aides produce strong guiding relationship with understudies, checking and supporting understudies' headway through their undertakings of study. Understudies are joined with experienced first-year instructors to investigate their beginning move to the school, then associated with staff manages whose academic distractions cover the understudies' for whatever remains of their framework.
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