Early Childhood
An educator who successfully teaches all children, promotes high personal standards, and continually expands his or her skills and knowledge.
What is an early childhood professional?
Where children show high levels of language development, increased social competence, good ability to regulate their behavior and good academic performance.
What are high-quality programs?
The ongoing process of gathering data on students over the school year.
What are formative assessments?
Ten sets of learning materials designed to help children learn through play and manipulation.
What are Froebel's gifts?
What standard discusses conducting yourself as a professional and identifying with your profession?
What is Standard 6?
Practice based on how children grow and develop and on individual and cultural differences.
What is DAP (Developmentally Appropriate Practice)?
The 3 knowledge bases are the knowledge of child development, knowledge of social and cultural contexts in which children live and the knowledge of the child as an individual.
What are the core considerations bases of DAP?
Those assessments given periodically to determine at a particular point in time what students know or are able to do.
What are summative assessments?
Term meaning that every child is a unique and special individual.
What is child centered?
To meet this standard, you will demonstrate relationships with children and families.
What is Standard 4?
These standards of professional preparation provide guidelines for what you should know and be able to do in your lifelong career as an early childhood professional.
What are the NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professionals?
A teacher should possess a solid education, work well with others, act as problem solvers, utilize skills broadly and engage in flexible thinking, function as information seekers and envision themselves as life-long learners.
What is the role of the teacher?
A compilation of samples, products, and teacher observations collected over time.
What is a portfolio?
Theory that emphasizes the active role of children in developing their understanding and learning.
What is constructivism?
To achieve this standard, you will need to understand child development and learning and how to promote them.
What is Standard 1?
A set of beliefs about how children develop and learn and what and how they should be taught.
What is a philosophy of education?
Adults provide warm, caring relationships with children and are intentional in their teaching.
What are some principles of DAP?
Refers to a classification of different objectives that educators set for students in three domains: affective, psychomotor, and cognitive.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
The stage of cognitive development from age 2 to approximately 7 years old. This is the stage in which young children are capable of mental representations. Children are very egocentric in thought and action at this stage.
What is the preoperational stage of cognitive development according to Piaget?
To achieve this standard, teachers need to develop in-depth understanding of content knowledge.
What is Standard 5?
The difference in performance between low-income and minority students, students of different genders, and students with different levels of maternal education, compared to that of their peers.
What are achievement gaps?
Practitioners must connect what they know with what they do.
How does developmental knowledge inform your teaching?
Assessment designed to provide a glimpse of a child's overall developmental state in all domains- social, physical, emotional, and cognitive abilities- or in one particular domain.
What is screening?
The range of tasks that are too difficult to master alone but that can be learned with guidance and assistance.
What is the zone of proximal development (ZPD)?
This standard states that one of the important responsibilities as an early childhood professional will be to observe, document and assess.
What is Standard 3?