Professor King
Missouri State University
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director, Early Childhood and Family Development Master’s Degree
In my teaching, I strive to break down the perceived hierarchy between teacher and student by centering students’ well-being, displaying my own humanness, modeling vulnerability, and balancing moments of earned expertise with times when I note that I’m out of my depth.
Courses Taught
Growth and Development: Infancy Through Early Childhood - Overview of current research on children’s development, prenatal through age 8 years, including physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. The roles of culture and biology in development, including families and a variety of social settings such as child care, schools, neighborhoods, and communities. Graduate course.
Principles of Development in Early Childhood - Development of the child from conception through 8 years of age including weekly laboratory experience with preschool children. Undergraduate course.
Educational Research Methodology - Survey of research methods used in education; research design and evaluation; problems of interpretation and application; development of a formal research proposal. Graduate course.
Advanced Human Development Studies - Analysis of theories and trends in human development. Graduate Course.
Orientation to Early Childhood and Family Development - Orientation to the program and examination of seminal reading in the field. Graduate course.
Introduction to Research in Early Childhood and Family Development - An introduction to Early Childhood and Family Development research methods. Graduate Course
Proposal Development - Development of proposal for seminar paper. Proposal must be approved prior to data collection. Human subjects review will also be completed via a lab section with research advisor. Graduate course.
Seminar in Early Childhood and Family Development - Guided development of research paper focused on field of Early Childhood and Family Development. Graduate course.