Vocabulary 1.1
Covers the period from birth to eight or nine years of age.
What is Early Childhood?
Achieving quality, availability and affordability is often called the
trilemma of childcare
The most important trait of an early childhood teacher
Passion for working with young children
These are at least three roles or responsibilities of an early childhood educator.
To Know How Children Grow and Develop
To Plan a Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum
To Prepare the Learning Environment
To Communicate Effectively
To Demonstrate Teamwork and Leadership
To Manage Time Wisely
To Participate in Professional Organizations
To Follow Ethical Standards
To Practice Lifelong Learning
A person who defends, supports, or promotes the interests of others.
Advocate
This person creates and runs their own business. The most common early childhood entrepreneurship is a family childcare home. Family childcare providers run their businesses from their homes.
Entrepreneur
One of the fastest growing types of child care is
What is corporate or employer sponsored?
List 5 career opportunities in early childhood
Regardless of your position in the field of early education and care, you will need a thorough understanding of ________ and ______________.
child growth and development?
A more experienced person who encourages, guides, coaches, and influences the growth of a less experienced person
Mentor
Established standards to assess and acknowledge program quality
Quality Rating Improvement System
Three of the positive effects employers reported when having some type of child care benefit to its employees are
What is recruitment, morale, and productivity?
What are some characteristics should an early childhood educator possess?
Topics parents may come to you for help with, in regards to parent education.
(not in book)
Toilet training, meals, schedules and routines at home, behaviors at home, choices about activities to do with their children, places to get help with things like housing or food, how to manage their child's special needs
Motivation that is driven by internal rewards that a person finds satisfying
Intrinsic Motivation
Children being raised by grandparents apart from their parents.
Skipped Generational Families
Eighty-four percent of children are in this type of care.
What is non parental care
Children are naturally curious and may constantly repeat simple questions. Children do not always remember everything they have been told. Repeating information and reminding children of limits may seem tedious. When handling these situations patiently, however, teachers help children do this.
grow and learn while building their self-esteem.
Teaching young children is demanding, both physically and mentally. It requires you to be constantly alert to handle multiple tasks and model healthy social-emotional skills. Meeting these demands requires what of you?
A self-care plan to reduce stress and improve the quality of your life. Eating nutritious meals and getting enough sleep is important. You will also need to stay physically active and reduce stress.
An individual who has mastered the specialized knowledge, competencies, and skills for teaching children from birth through age nine.
Early Childhood Educator
Child care that is provided in the caregiver’s own home.
Family Childcare
The presence of multiple different cultures or ethnicities
Cultural Diversity
Corporate on-site childcare provides parents the opportunity to do what?
Teachers that work to help children understand the feelings of others and motivate children to respect each other are showing this characteristic.
Compassion
The education you need to be a preschool teacher.
Preschool teachers typically need at least an associate degree. But this is not standard. If teaching in a public school, you must have a license in early childhood education, which requires a Bachelors degree. (4 years) An early childhood education license typically covers teaching pre-K through the third grade. Today nationwide, 50 percent of Head Start programs require a teacher to have a bachelor’s degree in early childhood.
A framework or approach to working with young children that is based on knowledge of how children learn and develop at different ages and stages
Developmentally Appropriate Practice DAP
A specialist that evaluates and rates the achievement of benchmarks that exceed the minimal state licensing requirements.
Quality Rating Specialist
Responsible for all/ aspects of class functioning. These include planning a curriculum, maintaining a safe and stimulating environment, and teaching children
Head or Lead teacher
High quality programs promote the well-being of the nation. By providing high-quality programs and closing the educational gap, they reduce inequality. The most positive effects of high-quality programs are with children who experience the most disadvantages. Investing in children gives these benefits.
These kinds of teachers act purposefully in helping children gain knowledge, interests, habits, and attitudes.
intentional.
Emotional development is also an important element of what?
developmentally appropriate curriculum
A guiding set of moral principles, either those held personally or those determined by a professional organization for its members
Ethics
The full range of early childhood programs, including school-based programs for three- to five-year-olds
Pre-K or Pre-Kindergarten