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title: "What is Field Placement?"
type: "wiki"
space: "School of ECE Field Placement"
author: "Nadezda Tsygankova"
created: 2024-06-25T13:20:47Z
updated: 2024-10-04T20:31:06Z
tags: ["childhood", "early", "education", "evaluating", "facilitator", "field", "implementing", "observations", "placement", "polytechnic", "programming", "seneca", "skills", "students", "studies"]
url: "https://students.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/276/school-of-ece-field-placement/wiki/view/14236/what-is-field-placement"
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# What is Field Placement?

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- Field placement gives students an opportunity to develop practical skills and to apply content learned in their academic classes.
- Students will plan, implement and evaluate play-based, inclusive, emergent curriculum experiences for children corresponding with the theories taught in class.
- The early childhood educator’s role as a facilitator will be studied and practiced.
- Inclusive practices to support and encourage self-regulation will be utilized that support, nurture and respect children’s individuality.
- Based on observation of children, students will develop skills in planning, implementing and evaluating programming that meets the needs of individuals and small groups of children and which are safe, diverse and developmentally appropriate.
- In addition, time is spent reflecting and examining issues related to the field placement experience.
- Students will demonstrate course learning outcomes during field placements.

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