State Regulations
Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE)
What RI State agency is in charge of licensing and issuing certifications for teachers and teacher assistants?
Workforce Knowledge and Competencies
What standards in RI show teachers and teacher assistants what they should know, understand and be able to do
All educators have a WKC document. Adminisitrators, Teachers and Teacher Assistants
Who are the Workforce Knowledge and Competencies For?
DCYF
What is the Department of Children Youth and Families, the agency that license childcare programs, family childcares and school age programs
Which domain of the RIELDS attends to what children should know, understand and be able to do when expressively communicating effectively?
What is Language Development?
Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOOHHS)
What agency is RI oversees early intervention providers and their programs
BrightStars
What is our Quality Rating Improvement System?
Career Pathway
What is the progression of continuously learning in ones profession called?
NAEYC
What is the National Association and Education of Young Children
The domain of learning and developing where children must persist on something like a difficult puzzle and/or how they show some inhibitory control through such activity.
What is Cognitive Development?
DCYF
What agency of RI enforces the licensing regulations on childcare, family childcare and school age care for RI?
Rhode Island Early Learning and Development Standards
What standards do educators use to guide them in knowing what children should know, understand and be able to do at certain ages and stages of development
6 Areas ; PhysicalHealthSafetyandWellness, Family Engagement, Development and Learning, Curriculum, Child Assessment Practices, Professionalism,
How many areas (domains) in the WKCs do we need to be proficient in, meaning not just knowing, but understanding and then doing things with mastery.
CCAP
What is the Child Care Assistance Program?
An activity we could incorporate into a lesson plan for a student needing help in an area of physical health and development.
What is Brain Gym?
Department of Health and Human Services or DHS.
What is the agency that helps fund child care and education for young children in RI?
9 Domains: Physical Health and Development, Language Development, Literacy, Math, Science, Cognitive Development, Social Studies, Social Emotional Development, Creativity
What are the 9 domains of learning in the RIELDS?
QRIS
What is the Quality Rating Improvement System?
The domain that shows teachers where children need to be at certain ages and stages of development for developing relationships with their teachers and their peers.
What is the Social Emotional Domain of Learning and Developing?
Center For Early Learning Professionals
Educators need to continue to learn. What non-profit organization helps educators with professional development?