This covers the period from birth to nine years of age.
What is early childhood?
100
This is a national credential that is obtained through the National Credentialing Program
What is Child Development Associate (CDA) Credential?
100
These are a set of guidelines that focus on the learning activities aka DAP.
What is developmentally appropriate practice?
100
Facilities that offer full-day children's programs are called this.
What are child care centers?
100
This refers to change and growth in children.
What is development?
200
This person provides care in a child's home.
Who is a nanny?
200
These are the number of goals that identify the skills needed by early childhood professionals.
What are six Competency Goals?
200
Quality programs focus on the child's physical, social, cognitive, and emotional development.
What is the whole child?
200
This type of care focuses on the child's physical needs. Meals are usually provided.
What is custodial care?
200
This involves improvement of skills using large muscles in the legs and arms. Activities as running and bike riding fall into this category.
What are gross-motor skills or development?
300
This person is from a foreign country who lives with a family and performs tasks similar to those of a nanny.
Who is an au pair?
300
This is how often the CDA Credential needs to be renewed.
What is five years?
300
It is important to use proper grammar when speaking, listening actively to what the children are sharing.
What are communication skills?
300
This federal program provides child care and education for four-and five-year olds from low-income families.
What is Head Start?
300
This refers to the processes people use to gain knowledge. Language, thought, reasoning, and imagination are all included.
What is cognitive development?
400
These individuals teach five-year-olds in schools.
Who are kindergarten teachers?
400
In order to renew the credential, the teacher must take additional coursework.
What are Continuing Education Units?
400
This is a set of guiding moral principles that enables one to maintain the highest standards of professional conduct.
What are ethics?
400
The first one was opened in 1837 by Frederick Froebel in Germany.
What is kindergarten?
400
"Brain wiring" occurs as new links form. Links between the neurons develop rapidly. The larger the number of these, the greater the number of messages can pass through the brain.
What are synapses?
500
This individual markets the program, recruits children, hires and supervises the staff of a child care center.
Who is a child care director?
500
This degree usually takes four years of college.
What is a bachelor's degree?
500
This is a quality a teacher must possess. Teachers will need to repeat what they have said, and children often need extra time to accomplish tasks.
What is patience?
500
These programs are sponsored by schools, houses of worship, or child care centers. They provide care for children before and/or after school.
What are school-age child care programs?
500
Gardner's learning theory emphasizes many types of intelligences. For example, visual-spatial in which the individual has the ability to form mental images.