Key Messages
Critical Issues
Applying New Knowledge
Core Considerations
Hodge Podge
100
Knowledge--not assumptions--of how children learn and develop.
What is best practice based on?
100
These children enter school with lower levels of foundational skills.
Who are children from families living in poverty or in households in which parent education is low?
100
Changing young children's experiences
What can substantially affect their learning and development?
100
What is known about child development and learning
What is the first core consideration in developmentally appropriate practice?
100
Intentionality
What is a hallmark of developmentally appropriate teaching?
200
Rather than diminishing children's learning by reducing time devoted to academic activities, THIS promotes children's key abilities to learn.
What is play?
200
Worries
What is what drives the "standards/accountability" movement?
200
Start early with pro-active vocabulary development
What can early childhood programs do to shrink the achievement gap?
200
What is know about each child as an individual.
What is the second core consideration in developmentally appropriate practice?
200
Knowledge about child development and learning in general, knowledge about the individual children in their classrooms, knowledge about the sequences in which concepts and skills are learned, and a well developed repertoire of teaching strategies to use for different purposes
What do teachers need to make decisions with well-grounded intentionality?
300
What is known about the interrelationships and sequences of ideas.
What is effective, developmentally appropriate curriculum based on?
300
Three-quarters of the states (although this number has increased and now includes Idaho)
What is the number of states that had some sort of early learning standards in 2007?
300
Independence, responsibility, self-regulation, and cooperation
What social-emotional characteristics predict how well children make the transition to school?
300
What is known about the social and cultural contexts in which children live
What is the third core consideration in developmentally appropriate practice?
300
Mathematics education
What kind of education often gets very little attention before kindergarten?
400
The most powerful determinant of learning outcomes and development
What is a teacher's moment-by-moment actions and interactions with children?
400
What we know from research and practice about children from a variety of backgrounds at a given stage/age and about the processes, sequences, variations, and long-term consequences of early learning and development.
What should developers of early learning standards base the standards on?
400
Self-regulation
What is a particularly powerful variable in predicting children's later successful life functioning?
400
This knowledge provides a general idea of the activities, routines, interactions, and curriculum that will be effective with a group of children.
What is knowledge about what children of the age and developmental status represented in the group are typically like?
400
Knowledge, skills, resources, tools, and support
What do teachers need to make sound instructional decisions?
500
A priority for early childhood educators as well as policy makers.
What is narrowing the gaps in learning opportunities?
500
Expert decision making
What lies at the heart of effective teaching?
500
THIS cannot be overemphasized
What is the importance of teachers to high-quality early education?
500
When new experiences build on what a child already knows and is able to do and when those learning experiences also entail the child stretching a reasonable amount in acquiring new skills, abilities, or knowledge.
When are learning and development most likely to occur?
500
Making things easier for children
What does Developmentally Appropriate Practice NOT mean?
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