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Describe Developmentally Appropriate Practice Ans✓✓ -It helps teachers
improve the effectiveness of their work
with children. It helps them make decisions based on what they know about
children. Teachers who know how children think and learn, recognize that
children learn best when they
are given many opportunities to explore materials and their environment with
their peers and adults. Knowledgeable caregivers are able to build on what
children already know and can do but also make them stretch toward what they
don't know yet or are unable to do without help.
Describe intentionality and list some ways that you can implement this strategy.
Ans✓✓ -The adult must be consciously aware of the decisions they make
about:
1. Varying their teaching strategies to be more appropriate for the group and
individual children
2. Preplanning and organizing the environment with learning goals and objectives
in mind
3. Meeting children where they are and helping them reach challenging and
achievable goals
Three critical challenges impacting early childhood practices are: Ans✓✓ -1.
Addressing differences in school success and achievement
2. Integrating and aligning preschool and elementary school programming
3. Improving teacher preparation, professional development and on-site support
, Outcomes of quality child care Ans✓✓ -• Lower delinquency rates
• Increased graduation rates
• Adults who earn higher salaries
• Increased home ownership
• Better cognitive and language skills
• Adults who spend less time participating in social programs or on welfare
Which disciplinary practices are prohibited by Florida Statute? Ans✓✓ -• Children
shall not be subjected to discipline that is severe, humiliating or frightening
• Discipline shall not be associated with food, rest or toileting
• Spanking or any other form of physical punishment is prohibited
Describe how the entire community benefits when children receive quality care.
Ans✓✓ -Parents and communities who have access to quality care tend to have a
more stable workforce. Employees have fewer absences and late arrivals at work,
higher productivity levels and are less likely to be dependent on social services.
Finding good
child care is the first step to school success. Children enter school with
foundational skills that they need to be successful. When parents feel that their
child is in a safe, loving and stimulating environment they feel more at ease at
work.
Describe the importance of establishing relationships. Ans✓✓ -• Just as children
go through separation anxiety, so do parents.
• Trust is established over time.
• Remember, a caregiver's role is not the same as a parent. Parents need to know
you respect them as the child's first teacher.
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Describe Developmentally Appropriate Practice Ans✓✓ -It helps teachers
improve the effectiveness of their work
with children. It helps them make decisions based on what they know about
children. Teachers who know how children think and learn, recognize that
children learn best when they
are given many opportunities to explore materials and their environment with
their peers and adults. Knowledgeable caregivers are able to build on what
children already know and can do but also make them stretch toward what they
don't know yet or are unable to do without help.
Describe intentionality and list some ways that you can implement this strategy.
Ans✓✓ -The adult must be consciously aware of the decisions they make
about:
1. Varying their teaching strategies to be more appropriate for the group and
individual children
2. Preplanning and organizing the environment with learning goals and objectives
in mind
3. Meeting children where they are and helping them reach challenging and
achievable goals
Three critical challenges impacting early childhood practices are: Ans✓✓ -1.
Addressing differences in school success and achievement
2. Integrating and aligning preschool and elementary school programming
3. Improving teacher preparation, professional development and on-site support
, Outcomes of quality child care Ans✓✓ -• Lower delinquency rates
• Increased graduation rates
• Adults who earn higher salaries
• Increased home ownership
• Better cognitive and language skills
• Adults who spend less time participating in social programs or on welfare
Which disciplinary practices are prohibited by Florida Statute? Ans✓✓ -• Children
shall not be subjected to discipline that is severe, humiliating or frightening
• Discipline shall not be associated with food, rest or toileting
• Spanking or any other form of physical punishment is prohibited
Describe how the entire community benefits when children receive quality care.
Ans✓✓ -Parents and communities who have access to quality care tend to have a
more stable workforce. Employees have fewer absences and late arrivals at work,
higher productivity levels and are less likely to be dependent on social services.
Finding good
child care is the first step to school success. Children enter school with
foundational skills that they need to be successful. When parents feel that their
child is in a safe, loving and stimulating environment they feel more at ease at
work.
Describe the importance of establishing relationships. Ans✓✓ -• Just as children
go through separation anxiety, so do parents.
• Trust is established over time.
• Remember, a caregiver's role is not the same as a parent. Parents need to know
you respect them as the child's first teacher.
