True/False ECE Fun Facts
Most of a person’s brain growth is complete by age 2
Bonus: 80% of the brain is grown by age 5
True, roughly 75% of brain growth occurs by age 2
Bonus: false, nearly 90% by age 5
Specializes in capturing the personality, innocence, and milestones of children
Learning about infant development, parenting, and pregnancy and prenatal development
What is child development?
Learning about different feelings at carpet time would be an example of what?
What is social-emotional development?
The process of understanding and managing emotions, developing confidence, and having relationships
What is Social-Emotional Development?
Children cannot remember past events until they are at least 4 years old
False, infants and toddlers have memory, but it is context-dependent and evolves from procedural to episodic memory over time
Helper during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period
What is a midwife?
Learning about safety (abuse and neglect), preschool development, communication skills, preschool routines and expectations, and guidance and discipline in small children
What is teaching young children 1?
Fine and gross motor skills
(Bonus: what are the fine and gross motor skills?)
What is Physical Development?
(Bonus: fine is using small muscles (cutting and writing) and gross is using big muscles (running and jumping))
For play to be educational, it must be structured and guided by an adult
False, unstructured, child-led play is essential for developing independence, decision-making, and social skills
Creates images to find internal body tissues, organs, and stuff in the body for diagnosis
What is an ultrasound technician?
Learning about positive guidance, effective teachers, special needs, developmental issues, teaching methods, lesson planning, and curriculum in young kids
What is teaching young children 2?
Exploration, curiosity, problem-solving
What are Cognitive Skills?
A "ten and two" rule in ECE means you should never be more than 10 feet away from any child, and speak at a distance of no more than 2 feet
True, this is a common safety and supervision guideline
Supports kids academically, mentally, physically, and emotionally via mental health services, conducting psychoeducational evaluations for special education, and consulting with teachers and families
What is a school psychologist?
Building interview skills, portfolios, leading teacher strategies, and exploring industry locations
What is teaching young children 3?
Intelligence, nature and nurture, senses, environment influence, and learning
What is Brain Development?
You can "spoil" a baby by picking them up every time they cry
False, responding to a baby's cry builds secure attachment and trust, which is essential for emotional development
Diagnoses and treats a wide range of communication, swallowing, and cognitive disorders in individuals of all ages
What is a speech language pathologist?
Hands on experience to teach young children for an entire class period
What is teaching young children lab?
True or false?
A child's development is linear and not an integrated process
False
A child's development is NOT linear, but is a holistic, integrated process