This classroom serves children with disabilities together with children who are developing in a typical way.
What is inclusion?
Teachers working together to learn from each other through observation, interaction, and discussions
What is peer coaching?
This organization instituted the code of ethics for early childhood education.
What is the National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)?
The age span that covers early childhood education
What is birth to eight?
A team of early childhood professionals working collaboratively to improve teaching and learning.
What is a professional learning community?
This type of classroom produces happier, healthier, and more fulfilling children?
What is an enriched classroom?
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?
Early childhood education has changed in the past decade due to the fact *research has found high quality education benefits a children through their later years, *the development of research based programs from birth, and *this...
What is politicians have rediscovered young children?
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?
Elizabeth Jones best described this as "what happens in an educational environment."
What is curriculum?
Teachers who show responsible conduct with children, families, colleagues, and the community
What is ethical conduct?
This term is defined as the study of growth, development, and education of children birth through eight.
What is early childhood education?
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?"
Elizabeth Jones states the goal of this curriculum is "to respond to every child's interests."
What is emergent curriculum?
Planning used by groups of teachers at grade levels to plan daily, weekly, monthly curriculum.
What is collaborative planning?
Teaching skills teachers need to help children learn.
What is content knowledge?
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?
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?
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?
Teaching skills teachers need to help all children learn?
What is pedagogical knowledge?
Learning about one's self; asking "Who am I?"
What is individual cultural identity?