ECE Concepts
To have 2 teachers at all times, scan the environment
What is Active Supervision?
How children learn to control their feelings and their bodies.
What is self-regulation?
A plan to obtain special education services for infants and toddlers.
What is an IFSP or Individualized Family Service Plan
A widely earned Credential administered by the Council for Professional Recognition
What is the CDA?
This Head Start Framework has five broad areas of early learning, referred to as central domains.
What is ELOF?
The Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five
Nurturing spaces that support the development of all young children, including classrooms, play spaces, areas for caregiving routines, and outdoor areas
What is the learning environment?
A universal, innate, and essential human activity that children engage in for pleasure, enjoyment, and recreation.
What is play?
The process of planning and implementing learning experiences that are responsive to each child's interests, strengths, and needs.
What is Lesson Planning?
The process used to enforce child care providers', grantees compliance with licensing rules or performance standards.
What is monitoring?
Refers to an interactive process of relationship-building between early childhood professionals and families that is mutual, respectful, and responsive to the family’s language and culture.
What is family or parent engagement?
When an infant or young child babbles, gestures, or cries, and an adult responds appropriately with eye contact, words, or a hug
What is Serve and Return?
Refers to children under the age of five who have at least one parent or guardian that speaks a language other than English at home and who are mastering their native language while learning English simultaneously.
What are Dual Language Learners (DLL) ?
A realistic, fact based record of what you hear and see when at a home visit or in the classroom
What are observations ?
Refers to a continuum of learning and support activities designed to prepare individuals for work with, and on behalf of, young children and their families, as well as ongoing experiences to enhance this work.
What is Professional Development?
Refers to the ways in which children learn, including children's openness and curiosity to tasks and challenges, task persistence, imagination, attentiveness, and cognitive learning style.
What is Approaches to Learning?
Refers to potentially traumatic events that can have a negative, lasting effect on an individual's health and well-being.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)?
A written plan that includes goals for children's development and learning; the experiences through which they will achieve the goals; what staff and parents should do to help children achieve the goals;
What is curriculum?
A screening used to identify children that would benefit from in-depth evaluation for developmental delays
What is the Ages and Stages Questionnaire or ASQ
A relationship-based process led by an expert with specialized knowledge and adult learning Competencies that is designed to build capacity for or enhance specific professional dispositions, skills and behaviors.
What is Coaching or Practice based Coaching?
An interactive process through which program staff and families, family members, and their children build positive and goal-oriented relationships
What is the Family Partnership Agreement
Practices, behaviors, activities and settings that are adapted to match the age, characteristics and developmental progress of a specific group of children.
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)?
Embodied by the values, policies, and practices that support the right of every infant and young child and their family, regardless of ability, to participate in a broad range of activities and contexts as full members of families, communities, and society.
What is inclusion?
Data platform used to analyze ongoing child development and planning individualization
What is TS Gold?
Name the group of parents have a voice in decisions about how the program spends money, what children do in their classrooms, and how the program works with community partners
What is the Ppolicy Council?
A term to describe the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to successfully transition to, and perform well in, the early school years.
What is school readiness?