Collaborations
Academic programs interested in providing field experiences for their college courses should contact the center director. Experiences can be one-time experiences (e.g., planning and planting an herb garden), regularly occurring experiences across the semester (e.g., weekly motor development clinic) or annual events (e.g., language and hearing screenings).
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蘑菇tv School of Social Work - Child and Family Studies
Undergraduate students complete observation hours during child development coursework. Undergraduate students also complete internship hours that may include administrative or classroom experience.
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The nutrition department reviews the program鈥檚 menus and conducts cooking activities with children.
蘑菇tv Financial Aid Department
The financial aid program works with the financial aid department to recruit and obtain students who are interested in working with children as part of their work study assignment.
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The speech and hearing clinic conducts language and hearing screenings of children enrolled. The clinic is a referral source for children or families with speech and hearing needs.
蘑菇tv Biological Sciences
Each month, faculty members and PhD candidates from Biological Sciences bring their research to students at the ECELP to share the importance of what they do and how their studies effect the world in which we live. In these interactive sessions, students are encouraged to explore, ask questions and get hands-on with the research being presented to them.
蘑菇tv Museum of Natural Science
The Museum of Natural Science at 蘑菇tv brings specimens from their collection for the children to observe. Each time, the Museum of Natural Science brings a different category of mammal, insect, reptile, amphibian and even dinosaur for the children to explore.
Community Collaborations
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America provides support for to teachers and staff through training and on-site technical assistance. Students enrolled in Ancillary Certificate Program complete observation hours at the preschool.
East Baton Rouge Parish Early Childhood Network
East Baton Rouge Parish Early Childhood Network provides training and support to teachers in order to improve outcomes for children and families. The network utilizes 蘑菇tv ECELP as a training site for observers and administrators at 蘑菇tv ECELP currently serve on the network's governing board.
Baton Rouge Community College
Students enrolled in the Associate Degree program in Care & Development of Young Children complete observations and field experience hours at the preschool.
Southern University
Undergraduate students of the Child Development Program complete observation and field experience hours at the preschool.
Knock Knock Children鈥檚 Museum
蘑菇tv ECELP faculty and staff serve as committee members and volunteers for the museum.
East Baton Rouge Parish Library
East Baton Rouge Parish Library鈥檚 Book Mobile visits children and provides story time activities and books for teachers and children to check-out.
Learning Tours
The following programs have utilized 蘑菇tv ECELP as a resource for early childhood teachers, students, and/or administrators:
McNeese State University
Nicholls State University
St. James Episcopal Day School
Crossett County Schools
Unitech Training Academy
University of Alabama
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