Quality Child Care
The care and supervision of children ranging from infancy to age 8.
What is child care?
Children receiving early intervention in classrooms with their typically developing peers.
What is inclusion?
Social Emotional, Language, Cognitive, and Physical
What are areas of child development?
First State to offer universal child care.
What is New Mexico
A baby’s brain is a quarter of the size of an adult brain, but it ______ in the first year of life.
What is doubles in size?
Infants and toddlers 1 - 6
Preschool 1 - 12
What are child care classroom ratios?
Work with infants and toddlers who have developmental delays or disabilities.
Who are early interventionists?
What is an early childhood therapist?
Behaviors that mark stages of typical growth.
What are developmental milestones?
She started the Imagination Library which boosts literacy and learning across New Mexico.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Learning happens all day. Two toddlers struggle over a toy.
What is learning to share?
Where children receive early intervention that includes children without disabilities.
What are natural environments?
What is a child care setting or home?
Ability to recognize and express their feelings.
What is emotional awareness?
New Mexico State Early Childhood Education and Care department.
What is ECECD?
Gross and fine motor skills, such as walking, running, and manipulating objects. Active play is essential for developing coordination and strength.
What is physical development?
Child care that goes beyond basic supervision.
What is quality childcare?
Child care centers are prohibited from denying admission or participation based on a child's disability. They must provide equal opportunities for all children.
What is Non-Discrimination?
Ability to control impulses and manage emotions.
What is Self-Regulation?
New Mexico's program to support children zero to three with developmental delays or disabilities.
What is Family Infant Toddler aka FIT?
Partners that communicate with each other to ensure a child receives appropriate support.
Who are early childhood educators, parents, and early intervention specialists?
Promotes each child’s development and learning through strengths-based, play-based engaged learning.
What is developmentally appropriate practice aka DAP?
Quality rating and improvement system to strengthen early childhood programs in New Mexico.
What is FOCUS?
Morning sign in, circle time, center time, outdoor time, lunch, nap, afternoon play, preparing to leave the program.
What are daily routines?