3 Semester Credits

ESSE 495/595, Playing Games in Early Childhood Classrooms is a one-hour, undergraduate/ graduate-level game workshop. The focus for this class is to develop games appropriate for use with young children, PK-3.

The course has the three-fold purpose of acquainting and/or assisting the professional educator with:

1. techniques for promoting positive and long-lasting attitudes in all children toward math thinking and real-life problem solving;
2. strategies of classroom management which promote self-discipline, self-motivation and positive social interaction with adults and children;
3. determining and developing appropriate number games that address the NCTM and Virginia Standards of Learning.