This document offers guidelines for responsible behavior and sets forth a common basis for resolving the principal ethical dilemmas encountered in early childhood care and education.
What is the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment
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A professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research.
What is the National Association for the Education of Young Children
100
A set of attitudes, theories, and standards that guides the early childhood professional.
What is professionalism
100
Considered one of the giants of child development who focused on the stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget
100
Not talking about one family to another or spreading gossip.
What is confidentiality
200
Created by the Michigan State Board of Education and its agency and organizational partners, this document defines
quality programs for young children and the learning that might be expected of children at certain ages and stages.
What are the Michigan Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten
200
Started in the late 1800s, as a kindergarten organization. This international organization advocates for education equality for all children with a professional journal, books, and international study conferences.
What is the Association for Childhood Education International
200
A plan for learning
What is curriculum
200
This theorists psychosocial stages include trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, and industry versus inferiority.
Who is Erik Erikson
200
Early childhood professionals who continue to take professional development and training throughout their career.
Who are life long learners
300
Minimum standards for regulated child care providers in Michigan
What are the State of Michigan Child Care Licensing Rules
300
A national organization concerned with children under the age of three and emphasizing the education and care of the first three years.
What is Zero to Three
300
The study of how children change as they grow from a qualitative rather than a merely quantitative standpoint.
What is child development
300
A pediatrician who developed her own theory of development and developmental stages in the 1930s in Budapest, Hungary.
Who is Dr. Emmi Pikler
300
This federal acts mandates that early childhood professionals include children with disabilities, particular challenges, and other special needs in child care and other early care and education programs.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1991
400
Michigan’s quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) that supports early childhood programs and providers in their efforts to improve their programs while helping families find and choose quality programs that meet their children’s needs.
What is Great Start to Quality
400
The largest training organization in the United States devoted to improving the quality of infant-toddler care and
the infant-toddler curriculum used at Early LCC.
What is the Program for Infant-Toddler Care (PITC)
400
The question that asks, "What causes children to turn out the way they do?" In other words, what influences a child's development.
What is the nurture-nature question
400
Known as "The Father of Psychology"
Who is Sigmund Freud
400
Teachers, aides, assistants, family child care providers, caregivers, or any other adults who work with children and families that may suspect child abuse or neglect.
Who is a mandated reporter
500
These standards guide the Child Development and Early Education program at Lansing Community College and describe what early childhood professionals are expected to know and do.
What are the NAEYC 2010 Standards for Initial & Advanced Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs
500
A national, non-profit child advocacy organization founded under the leadership of Marian Wright Edelman.
What is the Children's Defense Fund
500
A catch phrase that relates to childhood development features and behaviors that tend to correlate with specific ages.
What is ages and stages
500
A Russian researcher who believed in the influence of culture on child development and letting children explore and experiment without adult help.
Who is Lev Vygotsky
500
Examining our own experience, both past and immediate, in order to understand it, learn from it, and grow.