Overview
The Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (BECEd) is a four-year program. Specifically, this program provides students with fundamental understanding and application of the principles of early childhood care and education, as well as experience in the application of these principles. It is one of the priority programs of the Commission of Higher Education (CHED) as per CMO No. 7, s. 2023.
Quality Awards
AACCUP Level II
Program Outcomes
Program Outcomes based on Section 6 of CMO No. 76 series of 2017, Policies, Standards and Guidelines for Bachelor of Early Childhood Education.
The minimum standards for the BECEd Program are expressed in the following: minimum set of learning outcomes:
- Common to all programs in all types of schools. The graduates have the ability to:
- Articulate and discuss the latest developments in the specific field of practice (PQF level 6 descriptor)
- Effectively communicate orally and in writing using both Mother Tongue, Filipino and English
- Work effectively and independently in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams (PQF level 6 descriptor)
- Act in recognition of professional, social, and ethical responsibility
- Preserve and promote “Filipino historical and cultural heritage” (based on RA 7722)
- Common to the Discipline (Teacher Education)
- Articulate the rootedness of education in philosophical, sociocultural, historical, psychological, and political contexts.
- Demonstrate mastery of subject matter/discipline.
- Facilitate learning using a wide range of teaching methodologies and delivery modes appropriate to specific learners and their environments.
- Develop innovative curricula, instructional plans, teaching approaches, and resources for diverse learners.
- Apply skills in the development and utilization of ICT to promote quality, relevant, and sustainable educational practices.
- Demonstrate a variety of thinking skills in planning, monitoring, assessing, and reporting learning processes and outcomes.
- Practice professional and ethical teaching standards sensitive to the local, national, and global realities.
- Pursue lifelong learning for personal and professional growth through varied experiential and field-based opportunities.
- Specific to a sub-discipline and a major (Early Childhood Education)
- Demonstrate high level of content and pedagogical knowledge
- Demonstrate appreciation for diversity
- Manifest collaborative skills
- Demonstrate innovative thinking
- Possess critical and problem-solving skills
- Advocate for children’s rights, equity, community, nationalism, and democratic ideas
- Pursue lifelong learning