The Teacher
Individuals that educate young children have many titles.
Who is the Early Childhood Educator, Teacher, Practitioner, Caregiver, Provider, Home Visitor?
This area requires space, equipment, materials, and time spent.
What is the Learning Environment?
Used to help teachers understand children; meet the needs of individuals; share information with families; evaluate programs and determine program effectiveness.
What is the purpose of assessment?
Children develop increased physical competence, oral language skills, positive approaches to learning, skills in logic, self-regulation and social negotiation.
What are the skills children develop through play?
Enduring emotional ties that unite children to care givers.
What is attachment?
The commitment of Early Childhood Education.
What is teaching The Whole Child?
social, emotional, intellectual, physical development
These are tools for learning, fits children's bodies, requires low open shelves for, clean, non-toxic in good repair, requires regular rotation.
What is Equipment and Materials?
An evaluation conducted during teaching.
What is formative assessment?
Toys such as newborn dolls of various ethnicities, costumes such as Japanese Happi coat, Nigerian Iro, Indian Kutra, Mexican Falda and Blusa, and play food such as tacos, dip sum, tortilla, dumplings, and fried chicken.
What are culturally diverse toys?
Infant plays in lab with mother, a stranger enters, mother leaves; then mother returns, stranger leaves; mother leaves child is alone; stranger returns (cannot console the child); mother returns.
What is Ainsworth’s Stranger Situation paradigm?
This approach is research based, focusing on all domains of development, and provides experiences based on children's age, individual abilities, culture, and circumstances.
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)?
These areas have transition space, active play zones, natural elements, manipulative-creative zones, and social-dramatic zones.
What is an Outdoor Environment?
The Summative Assessment.
What is an evaluation after teaching is completed?
Physically vigorous activity such as chasing, jumping, playfighting, and using the whole body.
What is rough and tumble play?
Help infants and children find comfort, watching children's facial expressions, labeling emotions, coaching in emotional expression, creating a warm environment, use of research-based curriculum to foster emotional development; offer age-appropriate outlets for emotional expression; use of literature to discuss emotions.
What is promoting emotional development?
This individual makes decisions with a purpose in mind, identifies goals, understands child development, and adapts to children's individual differences.
Who is the Intentional Teacher?
Carefully selected materials to highlight culture, gender, race, ability, language, and family structure.
What is Reflecting the Children?
To maintain confidentiality, respect a family's right to privacy, refrain from disclosure of confidential information, and intrusion into family life, unless a child is at risk.
What is NAEYC's Code of Ethics?
Events such as hurried activities, changes in family structure, and focus on academic enrichment activities.
What are factors that contribute to shrinking opportunities for play?
Characteristic way in which a person behaves, thinks and feels. Temperament and environment play a role and effect relative stability of behaviors.
What is personality?
A crucial part of the early childhood teacher role, involves helping children and families learn separation, requires close personal relationships, requires teachers to assume many roles.
What is Working with Families?
These spaces contain blocks, dramatic play, manipulatives, sensory play items, art materials, books shelf/books, writing materials, and discovery materials.
What are Learning Centers?
Running records are detailed records that are written in present tense as you watch. Anecdotal records are briefly written in the past tense and describe a single event.
What are two types of Narrative Observations?
Teachers with supportive attitudes act as stage manager, observer, protector/mediator, participant, and tutor.
What are teacher roles that help facilitate play?