Early Childhood Educator
This is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence.
What is play?
This person provides opportunities that are individually and culturally appropriate.
Who is the adult?
This includes goals, standards and is research-based.
What is curriculum?
This pertains to the mind and how it works.
What is cognitive?
This area centers on the development of social, emotional, personality characteristics, and self-concept.
What is Affective Development?
These settings include early childhood education centers, family in-home programs, head-start programs, or community education programs.
What are early childhood education settings?
These ideas provide an explanation, prediction, or a description of what does or will happen as children group and learn.
What are child development theories?
This includes observation, note-taking, and assessments.
What is the planning cycle?
This is a sequence that involves a stimulus and then some sort of activity in the mind followed by a response.
What is cognitive functioning?
This includes the ability to form and sustain positive relationships and experience, manage, and express emotions.
What is a healthy social-emotional development?
This approach to teaching is based on how children develop and learn.
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)?
These attribute development changes to interaction between growth and learning.
What are developmental theories?
These were created using multiple resources and are grounded in the notion that early experiences are directly related to later success in school.
What are the Florida Birth to Five Standards?
This person first proposed that children actually think differently than adults.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This includes consistent, on-going instruction, examples, models, books, and is embedded in real-time.
What is social skill instruction?
These domains include development and learning and are closely interrelated.
What are physical, social, emotional, and cognitive?
These variables must be considered with each developing child.
What is the child's culture, age, and temperament?
These include domains, components, sub-components, standards, and benchmarks.
What are the Florida Standards for 4 Year Olds / VPK Standards?
This begins to appear in children between ages three and five.
What is metacognition (the act of thinking about thought)?
This theorist's views include initiative versus guilt.
Who is Erik Erikson?
When children develop best, this occurs.
What is secure, consistent relationships with responsive adults and opportunities for positive relationships with peers?
This approach includes scaffolding, asking questions, providing appropriate materials and explanations, appropriate activities, active learning, and social interaction.
What is the constructivist approach?
This includes listening to the children, observing how children use materials, and collaboration with teachers.
What is the planning process?
In this test, one must consider the classroom, home, cultural, language, and social aspects.
What is an IQ (Intelligence) test?
In brain development, this is a good predictor of academic success.
What is self-control?