Week one
You guide, scaffold, nurture, model, and facilitate children’s learning. You learn about what children know and how they make meaning of the world. As you engage with and along side children, children see that learning is valued. Children’s disposition to learn is nurtured and strengthened over time and within the environments you create
What is Educator as A Co-Learner
These can be created virtually for free, Can be created in all shapes and sizes – typical is the rectangular shape, Could use hallways, ceilings, floors, doors, windows, staircases. There is no excuse for not having bulletin boards – use your imagination- be creative
What are Bulletin Boards
Child is continually hungry, dirty, or unsuitably dressed for the weather. Young child often left alone or inadequately supervised. Child who withdrawn or unusually aggressive to other people. Unexplained bruises or injuries. Demonstrates knowledge of sexual matters beyond their age of development or who exhibits sexualized behaviour around adults or other children. Child doesn’t want to at home or runs away from home.
What are signs of Abuse
Network with colleagues Provide current information to parents, Promote your business cost-effectively
What are Advantages of Social Media
Study of right and wrong, or duty, and obligation.
What is Ethics
D.A.P is....
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practices
OAn effective tool to “sell your program”
The tri-fold brochure is most commonly used because it will easily fit in a standard business envelope. It can be mailed out in response to a phone call; handed out to interested parties at the door; left in display holders with other service providers; distributed at professional meetings.
What is a Brochure?
Unsuitable clothing for the weather and extreme hunger may be signs of ___.
What is Neglect
A tool that allows people to create, share, or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks
What is Social Media
Intentional, Community of Learners, Teaching to Enhance Development, Planning Curriculum to achieve goals.
What is an Excellent Teacher
You gain an understanding of the complexities of how children and their families experience early childhood communities, and local and global communities. This process involves asking questions, investigating, reflecting, interpreting, and sharing the results with families, children and local communities
What is Educator as a co-researcher
Four basic principles
Balance,Movement,Unity,Simplicity
What are Principles of Design
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Has obtained, from a public college or a private vocational school, a diploma acceptable to the director in the field of child development, or Has competencies, completed course work or a combination of both that the director considers to be equivalent to the course work required for a diploma referred to in clause(a).
What is Level 3 Childcare Worker or former Childcare Development Supervisor
Reading what people are saying about your organization without responding – a way to learn about in what others think you are good at, and in what areas you can improve and being attentive to your competition (if any)
What is Social Listening
While there are many functions that we perform in the field of early learning and care at the heart of each function must be a commitment to children’s welfare and our commitment to work in close partnership with the child’s family to meet children’s needs
What are Ethical Responsibilites
There are many ways of being, doing and relating. Working in collaboration with families, children and community members you seek out diverse perspectives and in turn, co-imagine creative and novel ways of thinking about familiar and/or new experiences
What is co-imaginer of possibilities
Offer a cost effective way, to keep people informed,To promote events and programs, Should be quick to read –readers expect to finish reading it in 5-7 minutes, Creating your newsletter, Aim for an approach that will capture your readers attention,Keep your stories short- short articles increase the probability that your reader will find something that interests them
OUse words and language they are familiar with
What are Newsletters
Day Care – 3sq.m per child,Preschool -2.5 sq. m. per child, OOSC -2.5 sq. m, Group Family Child Care – none specified, Approved Family Day Home – none specified
What are Alberta's Space Requirements
Smartphones and social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tik-Tok, and Pinterest, have become a way of life for many of us. This technology has also made its way into early-childhood programs. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) provides some guidance in the article, Smartphones and Social Media: Ethical Implications for Educators.
What is Professionalism and Social Media
Differences found in groups of people with regard to race, religion, culture, ability, age or gender, You need to create classrooms that promote acceptance and work to eliminate prejudice. We all play a role in laying the foundation for children’s later school success
What is Diversity
F.O.I.P
What is the Freedom of Information Privacy Act
Complete and concise description of the duties involved in the performance of a particular job. An effective tool in the supervision of an employee
What is a Job Description
These tools are commonly used to measure early childhood and school-age care program quality, efficacy, and sustainability.
What are Program Assessments
No child up to age two should have exposure to
What is Screen time
Because each family sees the world through it own unique lens, parents and caregivers often have different points of view, At the same time, both want the best for the child. Therefore it is critical that both groups make their relationship work.
What are Diverse Perspectives