This means an ongoing process that includes collecting, synthesizing, and interpreting information about children, the program, and their instruction.
What is assessment?
100
Physical development consists of these two categories.
What are gross and fine motor development?
100
This refers to children's increasing ability to think as they grow.
What is cognitive development?
100
These are fundamental elements upon which children build their communication skills over time.
What is literacy and language development?
100
Infants are at a greater risk of this if they are exposed to secondhand smoke and/or overheat during naps.
What is SIDS?
200
To be this, you should not make assumptions or assign causes to what you observe.
What is objective?
200
Gross motor development involves large muscle movements of these body sections/parts.
What are the limbs and torso?
200
His constructivist theory emphasizes that thinking and learning is a dynamic, interactive process between children and their environments.
Who is Jean Piaget?
200
Include books throughout your setting and label materials so that children begin to do this.
What is to recognize letters and words?
200
This should be done daily on each child as each arrives to your setting and should take less than a minute.
What is a daily health check?
300
These records are short descriptions of incidents involving one or more child. These records provide data on a child's interest, interactions, and progress.
What are Anecdotal Records?
300
A preschooler walking along a line, sometimes on toes, and occasionally stepping off of the line is considered this type of movement.
What is a stability movement?
300
During this stage from Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, children are learning how to get along independently and resolve conflicts while developing empathy, a sense of fairness, and conscience.
What is Stage 3: Initiative vs. Guilt?
300
This type of book provides realistic pictures or photographs that introduce facts about a specific topic.
What are informational books?
300
When you develop this for children, you provide structure for their learning.
What is a daily schedule?
400
These house information that showcases each child's interests, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviors and documents a child's learning over time.
What is a portfolio?
400
Provide a lot of these type of experiences (materials like modeling clay, LEGO building bricks, and crayons) to help children develop their fine motor skills and abilities.
What are open-ended?
400
Preschoolers need this. It should be ample, and uninterrupted. It should occur throughout the day to develop their memory, attention, and self-regulation skills.
What is choice or free play?
400
Rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmenting, and syllable segmenting are all skills that help children develop this (the ability to notice and manipulate sounds in words).
What is phonological awareness?
400
These people should know that they are welcome in your setting at all times to observe and participate in meaningful ways.
What are families?
500
Observe and document, evaluate, plan, and implement are all parts of this.
What is the Cycle of Curriculum Planning?
500
This proves that both gross and fine motor skill development are related to brain development.
What is contemporary brain research?
500
When you teach this to children, they are learning about social relationships and societal functions.
What is social studies?
500
Teaching children in this helps promote their speaking, reading, and writing skills in a second language.
What is their home language?
500
The Mayo Clinic defines this as "the belief that good things will happen to you and that negative events are temporary setbacks to overcome."