Careers & Early Child Opportunities
This type of job only requires a high school diploma and little experience.
Entry level
This term is defined as articulate thoughts & ideas effectively using oral, written & nonverbal skills.
Communication
Broad ideas how infants & toddlers grow, develop & learn. These ideas make it possible for each child to develop to their full potential.
Guiding Principles
Hand eye coordination
The mental process that enables us to plan, focus attention, remember and juggle multiple tasks
Executive Function
This professional degree denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a certain discipline; usually focused on research in a specific career.
Doctor of Philosphy /PhD
This means to demonstrate understanding, sensitivity, concern, respect, share in others' feelings, opinions & experiences through personal & digital connections.
Empathy
A form of play that does not include interaction with others. The focus is on child & their environment.
Unoccupied play
Needs that are considered the bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy and are requirements for human survival.
Physiological
This area of the brain manages hearing, learning & feelings
Temporal lobe
This is considered "the sequence of physical, language, thought & emotional changes that occur from birth to adulthood.
Child Development
This is an arrangement in which someone learns an art, trade, or job from the direction of another; it combines paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction (usually college coursework) to prepare workers for highly skilled careers.
Apprenticeship
This form of play is categorized by a child playing beside another child but not WITH the other child. 1 child may copy the other child but does not interact.
Parallel play
When children learn to move their heads, trunks, arms & legs before learning to move their hands & feet.
Proximodistal
Largest lobe & controls thinking, short term memory, behavior and movement.
Frontal lobe
This term refers to careers that assist children with special education and social adjustment needs in classrooms and other settings.
Intervention
This is a short-term educational experience that introduces a student to a specific career by paring the student with an employee of a business. This experience usually has the student "shadowing" an employee to learn the duties associated with the occupation.
Job shadowing
This theorist said that children have multiple intelligences. The intelligences include linguistic, logical-mathematical & inter & intracommunication.
Howard Gardner
This development in an infant takes place at the top of the body then gradually throughout the body.
Cephalocaudal
Traumatic experiences in a person's life occurring before the age of 18 months that a person remembers in adulthood.
Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs)
These are qualifications from previous achievements, training & general background that indicates a person is capable of doing a specific kind of work.
Credentials
This type of work is done by a student or trainee in an occupation to gain work experience or fulfill requirement. Can be with or without pay.
Internship
This theorist's sociocultural theory includes 3 different types of learning: ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development), Scaffolding & MKO (More Knowledgeable Others).
Lev Vygotsky
The realization or fulfillment of one's talents & potentialities while understanding the need for the greater good of those around you.
Self-actualization
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