Method
Live-Online
Term
SPRING
Units
3.0 QUARTER UNITS
Cost
$435

Skills you will gain

  • Understanding Brain Development: Recognize key stages and factors influencing early childhood brain growth.
  • Stimulating Brain Areas: Learn how to stimulate critical brain regions at specific stages of development.
  • Effective Teaching Techniques: Apply research-based strategies to enhance early learning and development.
  • Language Development Insights: Understand how children can learn multiple languages simultaneously and how to support this process.
  • Enhancing Parenting & Teaching: Leverage brain development research to improve parenting and teaching practices for long-term success.

Course Description


How does the human brain develop during the first years of life? How can a child learn two or more languages at the same time? How does stress slow brain growth? This course answers those questions, providing parents or teachers of infants, toddlers or preschoolers with the latest research in brain development, demonstrating how this information can enhance parenting and teaching practices. This course will help you appreciate a child's unique qualities and your own strengths, as you work toward long-term success in parenting or teaching.

Topics

  • Introduction to Brain Research
  • Diagrams and other helpful information on brain research

Additional Information

Be ready for some lectures, individual presentations, group discussions, class and group inquiries, and a "hands-on" project or PowerPoint slide presentation to be made as a final project by each person in class.

Syllabus Library
Melissa Chi Le
Melissa Le
Apr. 6 - Jun. 15, Monday, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
  • Live-Online Attend via Zoom at scheduled times.
ECED.X310.(13)
Schedule
Date Start Time End Time Meeting Type Location
Mon, 04-06-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 04-13-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 04-20-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 04-27-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 05-04-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 05-11-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 05-18-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 06-01-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 06-08-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
Mon, 06-15-2026 5:30pm 8:30pm Live-Online REMOTE
 

This class is offered in an online synchronous format. Students are expected to log into this course via Canvas at the start time of scheduled meetings and participate via Zoom, for the duration of each scheduled class meeting.

No meeting May 25, 2026. To see all meeting dates, click "Full Schedule" below.

You will be granted access in Canvas to your course site and course materials approximately 24 hours prior to the published start date of the course.

Required Text:
Enhancing Brain Development in Infants and Young Children, Doris Bergen, Lena Lee, Cynthia Dicarlo, and Gail Burnett, 2020. ISBN: 9780807764442

This course applies to these programs:

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