DEC Recommended Practices
Assessment, Environment, Family, Instruction, Interaction, Teaming/Collaboration, Transition...
What are the DEC Recommended Practice topic areas?
Process children go through from birth through adolescence
What is Child Development?
IDEA (What does this acronym mean?)
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Based on how children develop and learn
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
Three principles of interaction
What is sensitivity, responsiveness, and contingency?
Process of gathering information to make decisions and informs intervention
What is assessment?
Done by a healthcare provider, early childhood educator, or trained professional at certain times with a validated assessment
Law denying discrimination against people with disabilities that requires reasonable accommodations and allow them to function normally in society
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Using multiple options in a classroom that benefits the most students without needing to be changed
What is Universal Design for Learning?
Activities that allow child to play and interact with peers or adult (shared story books, throwing a ball back and forth, blowing bubbles, singing, peek-a-boo, pretend play)
What is social play?
A child moving from ISFP to IEP, preschool to Kindergarten, a child moving from school focused goals to life skills goals
What is transition?
social/emotional, language/communication, cognitive, physical
What are domains or categories of development?
Two parts to IDEA (and who they're for)
Part B- Equitable education for ALL children with disabilities aged 3-21
Part C- Children with delays or disabilities birth-age 2
Understanding child development, working from a strengths based approach, and considering the role culture plays on development
What are considerations of DAP?
Allows children to practice existing skills and create interactions with peers while allowing adults the chance to observe interactions, support interactions, and identify strengths and needs
What are everyday activities?
Family centered (dignity/respect, involve family members in choices), family capacity building (practices that strengthen parents knowledge/skills), and family/professional collaboration (practices that build relationships between families and professionals)
What are three themes of family practices?
What is developmental delay?
Identify key differences between an IFSP and an IEP
What is IFSP are individualized family service plan and cover children birth to age 2. They focus primarily on early interventions and offering available resources to families of children with developmental delays or disabilities. IEPs are individualized education plan and start at age 3. IEPs are school focused with goals set and agreed upon by the family. IEP's identify the resources a child is eligible for to do their best in school. Both are legal documents?
Number cubes, counting bears, tallies, numbers, counters, are all examples of _____ principle.
Worksheets, dramatic play, computerized assessments are all examples of _____ principle.
Singing, drawings, story telling, play are all examples of _____ principle.
What are representation, expression, and engagement?
Which of the following is NOT an example of responding contingently?
A) Elaborating on new language (labeling items, naming what child is looking at)
B)Join in on child's vocal play
C) Imitate behaviors
D) Taking the lead to show a child how to play with a toy
What is D. The child should always take the lead in play observations so the adult can respond contingently?
Intentional ways that define the what, when, how, and how of teaching children with disabilities(Examples would be pacing guides, standards, and accommodations)
What is instruction?
5 year old Stella does well taking turns, playing through song and dance, and participating in simple such as cleanup. During recess you noticed her hopping on one foot. However you have also noticed that she lacks phonological and numerical awareness, struggles to remember simple words and pay attention during story time and directions, and cannot notice simple rhymes. How would you respond?
What is identify areas of concern, conduct developmental milestones monitoring, speak to family, refer to healthcare provider?
The steps to an IEP are
1)Referral (using child find)
2) Evaluation
3) Determining eligibility
4) Writing the IEP
5) Reviewing the IEP
6) Transition planning
The parts an early childhood educator would be involved in are...
What is referral depending on the setting (Typically done in writing from family), writing the IEP (this will be done as a team effort with the family and other professionals), and reviewing the IEP every year for any updates or changes (also done with a team).
As an ECE you create a classroom environment that is simple to understand and maneuver, allows students access to the same materials adapted as needed, necessary assistance, and is easily accessible... What area of UDL should you focus on improving in your classroom?
What is offering information in different formats that appeal to multiple senses (pictures, words, etc)?
Interaction impacts development by.......
What are developmental domains (language, cognition, and social emotional) through everyday interactions such as conversations, music, games and play)? Play MATTERS in early childhood. It's the basis of development.