Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Birth -8-year-old children is descriptive of this demographic in society.
Who is the young child?
These practices are used by adults to help children: learn about and use acceptable behavior; understand the feelings of others; understand their own feelings. What is this practice called?
What is Child Guidance
Each of these parts contribute to one useful tool: to help teachers understand and serve children; to meet the needs of individuals and groups; to share information with families; to evaluate programs; to determine a program’s effectiveness in meeting goals.
What is the purpose of assessment
This is a list that characterizes a very important aspect of a child’s development: intrinsically motivated; freely chosen; pleasurable, enjoyable, engaging; done for its own sake; process oriented; active; self-oriented rather than object oriented; non-literal; and focused.
What are the characteristics of play
Systems of care and education; include scope and structure; families are an integral part. Are all components of what?
What is Early Childhood Education
Characteristics such as warm, positive relationships; understanding and honoring differences; and knowledge of child development are all known as foundations in a particular practice.
What are the foundations of positive child guidance
One of these evaluations is done during teaching and secondly, this assessment is completed as an evaluation after teaching is completed.
What is a formative and summative assessment
This is a list belonging to one category; body & movement play; rough & tumble play; object play; Imaginative play; games
What are Kinds of Play
This person plans for and supports children’s development; encourages a child’s love for learning; knows universal milestones; engages in developmentally appropriate practices; and is open to forming emotional bonds and relationships with children and families.
Who is the teacher
There is information that forms a basis for expectations about children’s behavior, it is essential for teachers to know the difference between an unacceptable behavior and one that may be annoying but is age appropriate.
What is knowledge of Child Development
These three segments; purposefully gathering information; documenting what you have observed in a variety of ways; reflection on what your observations might mean; are all a part of a process.
What is the observation process
There are four theorists that are considered modern and are referred to often when discussing how children play.
Who is Freud, Erikson, Piaget and Vygotsky
These five attributes are at the heart of strong social emotional development: Self-awareness, Self-management, social awareness, Relationship skills, Responsible decision-making.
What are the Five Core Competencies
There are one types of knowledge that give us understanding of feelings, both one’s own and those of others, and the ability to use this knowledge to guide thinking and decision making; the other type give us the ability to understand what others are doing, thinking, and feeling and to respond to that understanding in a socially effective manner.
What is emotional and social intelligence
Running records are written as you watch; written in present tense and are very detailed. On the contrary, anecdotal records are written after the event, in past tense and describe a single incident. These two records have one title.
What are narrative observations
These three components are part of a particular type of play, imitative role-play; make believe with regard to objects; make believe with regard to actions and situations.
What is dramatic and sociodramatic play
Photos and posters of children, families, and citizens of various cultures, ethnicities and physical abilities; play foods like dumplings, sushi, fried chicken, and peas with rice, dolls of varied gender, skin tone and hair types, books, dress up clothes such as a kimono, sombrero, kufi, and toy wheelchairs are all part of a particular type of learning environment.
What is a diverse classroom
These skills: the ability to share goals & interests with others; demonstrate empathy; cooperation; problem solving; and creative thinking are developed through this process.
What is meaningful child guidance
These six components time sample, event sample, checklist, rating scale, rubric, and interview construct one type of observation method.
What are Structured Observations
Increased physical competence; increased physical fitness and decreased health risks; representational competence; oral language competence and narrative understanding; positive approaches to learning; positive approaches to learning; self-regulation and social negotiation are all benefits children develop through a learning process.
What is play
Play promotes authentic activity, strengthening all areas of development; children choose the course of their play, which engages their interest more deeply; research shows that play based programs that give children opportunities for choices and self-direction also promote academic success; are all contributing factors that establish play as crucial.
What is play as a vehicle for learning
There are three contributors that work together to ensure children’s physical and psychological well-being; helps children learn how to work and play with others and to care for themselves; promotes our long-term goals for child guidance.
What is a Positive Classroom Environment
The act of mindfully collecting, organizing and interpreting meaningful evidence of each child’s abilities which highlight development and learning; collecting core items at the same time from all children showing evidence of ability; having children select a favorite or “best” work to include and lastly, updating at specific times throughout the school year this collection.
What is Creating a Portfolio
Physically vigorous play including chasing, jumping and play fighting; sometimes referred to as big-body-play; has benefits for some children: provides touch, high activity, social interaction, ability to read social signals and to alternate and change roles; requires adequate supervisions and safe space; not possible in all settings describes a particular style of play.
What is rough & tumble play