DAP Basics
This approach to early childhood education tailors teaching to children’s age and individual needs.
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
This type of play is not organized or directed by adults or older peers and that generally doesn't have a defined purpose or outcome
What is unstructured play?
This type of language gives children a way to express their growing understanding of math concepts.
What is math language?
Any digital and interactive materials to encourage or aid in learning.
What is digital technology?
DAP ensures activities match what children can do at different stages of this.
What is age/development?
When a child plays alone, focused on their own activities without interacting with others
In this age group you would use stories and songs that use repetition, numbers, and rhymes.
What is infant/toddler?
when children are consuming content, such as watching a program on television, a computer, or a handheld device without accompanying reflection, imagination, or participation.
what is passive use?
This activity can be dramatic, solitary, or sensory and is central to early childhood learning.
What is play?
A kind of play that encourages children to freely express their imaginations, desires, and creativity. There are no rules, instructions, or guidelines
What is open-ended play?
This type of science experience is planned by the teacher to develop specific skills
What is formal science?
A parent viewing the content with the child and interacting with the child in the moment.
What is co-viewing?
In early childhood this person acts as a guide, observer and moderator.
What is a teacher/facilitator?
This type of play involves thrilling and exciting forms of play that involve a risk of physical injury
What is risky play?
This activity is a crucial part of a infants, toddlers, and preschoolers emerging literacy skills.
What is pre-writing?
Computers and touch screens
Video/Audio recordings
Photography
Interactive whiteboard
What is digital technology examples?
Early childhood education supports development across physical, social-emotional, and this domain
What is cognitive/Language development?
This type of play involves laughing and pretending and is physically boisterous and vigorous activity
What is rough and tumble play?
When children learn new words and concepts through chanting rhymes, creating sounds using household items and singing songs to learn the alphabet
What is movement/movement?
this type of thinking embraces a variety of approaches and possibilities that can result in many answers; open-ended.
What is divergent thinking?