In the Classroom, What do you see?
This classroom serves children with disabilities together with children who are developing in a typical way.
What is inclusion?
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?
This term is defined as the study of growth, development, and education of children birth through eight.
What is early childhood education?
The age span that covers early childhood education
What is birth to eight?
A teacher's relationship that exists between her/his self, children, and their families in which he/she responses to their needs and interests.
What is a responsive relationship?
Elizabeth Jones best described this as "what happens in an educational environment."
What is curriculum?
A process of studying, learning, changing, and becoming more professional.
What is professional development?
This organization instituted the code of ethics for early childhood education.
What is the National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)?
This practice shows awareness and understanding of child development and awareness of individual differences in children, matching children's developmental abilities with appropriate materials and activities while challenging them to develop further
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
This term is the process in which experienced and highly qualified teachers work with beginning teachers to help the new teachers be successful.
What is mentoring?
Elizabeth Jones states the goal of this curriculum is "to respond to every child's interests."
What is emergent curriculum?
A teacher's values and beliefs about how children develop and learn and what and how they should be taught.
What is philosophy of education?
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What is politicians have rediscovered young children?
This is the process of collecting information about a child's development, learning, behavior, academic process, and needs for special services, and attainment of grade level goals in order to make decisions.
What is assessment?
Planning used by groups of teachers at grade levels to plan daily, weekly, monthly curriculum.
What is collaborative planning?
Dr. Jones describes this type of curriculum as relying on generalization rather than on an individual teachers creativity and attentiveness to individual learners.
What is a standardized curriculum?
Teachers who show responsible conduct with children, families, colleagues, and the community
What is ethical conduct?
Teaching skills teachers need to help children learn.
What is content knowledge?
This term refers to the difference in student performance based on a comparison to their peers between students with different levels of maternal education.
What is "the achievement gap?"
Teachers working together to learn from each other through observation, interaction, and discussions
What is peer coaching?
This type of classroom produces happier, healthier, and more fulfilling children?
What is an enriched classroom?
Values, commitments, and professional ethics that influence behaviors towards students, families, colleagues, and communities and affect student learning, motivation, and development, as well as the educator's own professional growth
What is professional dispositions?
Teaching ability to apply knowledge and content to develop meaningful learning experiences for children.
What is pedagogical knowledge?
Learning about one's self; asking "Who am I?"
What is individual cultural identity?
A team of early childhood professionals working collaboratively to improve teaching and learning.
What is a professional learning community?