1) Students will be able to construct a strategic approach to teaching techniques.

• Students will be able to recognize the role of strategies and strategic decision in educational applications.
• Students will be able to identify the term of teaching techniques in early childhood education.
• Students will be able to understand the connection between strategic decision of education and teaching techniques.

 2) Students will be able to recognize the characteristics of teaching methods for early childhood education.

• Students will be able to describe the characteristics of co-constructing, community building, deconstructing, documenting, empowering, philosophizing, problem-solving, reinforcing, scaffolding and task analysis.
• Students will be able to discuss the teaching methods in terms of goal relevance, developmental consideration and equity considerations.
• Students will be able to participate group works to discuss the teaching methods features and prepare activities by using the teaching methods.

3) Students will be able to compare and evaluate different teaching methods in terms of their strengths and limitations.

• Students will be able to identify the strengths of using the teaching methods.
• Students will be able to identify the limitations of using the teaching methods.
• Students will be able to compare the teaching methods to combine the methods for her/his educational applications.

4) Students will be able to analyze various early childhood education approaches in terms of teaching methods.

• Students will be able to examine Montessori, High Scope, Bank Street, Reggio Emilia, Waldorf and DISTAR Approaches in terms of the teaching methods.
• Students will be able to identify approach specific teaching methods and their characteristics.
• Students will be able to examine national early childhood curriculum in terms of the teaching methods.

5) Students will be able to apply the teaching methods during practical work at preschool institutions.

• Students will be able to prepare their own activity plans by using the teaching methods.