Week Four Notes: Developmentally Appropriate Practice
Introduction/Recap
● Equity: “...is the process of ensuring that all students can acces high quality education
that they are fully included in their school communities that they are able to engage in
meaningful and challenging academic work and that they can do all of this in an
environment that values them as people” (Venet, 2021, P. 22)
● Week Four Outline: Developmentally Appropriate Practice
○ Focus: Infants and Toddlers
■ Class Outline
● Teaching Philosophy Assignment due 10/6 (Friday)
● Class readings
● Video activities
● Supporting a teaching philosophy with citations from the readings
● Assignment #5:
○ Take notes, get the sheet signed (you need proof of
observations)
■ Found on the assignment tab on brightspace, have
this printed and have them initial it, no matter where
you’re observing have it filled out
Class #4 Content on 9/25
● Major Theorists and Thinkers that have influenced ECE
○ Piaget: 4 Stages of Development
○ Vygotsky: Social Constructivism, Zone of Proximal Development
○ Erikson: 8 Stages of Development
○ Dewey
■ Experiential learning
■ Discussion
■ Interactive
■ Interdiscipinary
○ Frobel: The 20 Gifts
● Video: Wrap Up on History
○ Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASnAxQeVTeE
○ Brief History of Early Learning, Pt 2 Notes
■ First time there was high quality universal childcare
■ Women went back home after the war
■ There was a baby boom and a drastic need for childcare
■ In 1961 it was decided that intelligence is not necessarily genetic
, ■ Linden B Johnson started the program “Head Start” in the summer of 1965
for ¾ year olds of low income families
■ In 1971, congress passed the Comprehensive Child Care Act
■ In 1972, President Nixon vetoed the CCCA because he felt it was too
much like Russian programs
■ Today: Education and childcare varies based on zip code
● Childcare After Covid
○ Lots of childcare facilities were unfortunately shut down, social distancing made
the day to da function of programs very difficult
○ There was a large shift in the dynamic of work environments
■ Ie. Who is working? Where are they working? Home vs in person?
● What is the purpose of ECE?
○ Think about it, poke at it…we have discussed this in great detail before!
● Discussion of this Week’s Readings
○ Reading #1: They’re Not Too Young to Talk About Race
■ If they’re seeing it, they need to be talking about it
■ Ignorance is not bliss
■ Children experience
discrimination from birth,
if we dont talk about it,
how do we help them
cope with and learn from
it?
■ At three months children
look more at the faces that
match their caregivers
(Implicit Bias)
■ Implicit vs Explicit bias
■ Children as young as two
years old will use race to
reason about people's behaviors
■ Children are trying to figure out the puzzle of the world, they use their
sight to unpack that
■ Reinforced by communities, experiences made available, race is used to
choose playmates-this peaks at ⅘ years of age
■ The graphic we read is abt 5 years old, the studies are very outdated
■ Our understanding is MUCH better now
■ Conversations can improve these issues in the span of only one week,
what an impact!
Introduction/Recap
● Equity: “...is the process of ensuring that all students can acces high quality education
that they are fully included in their school communities that they are able to engage in
meaningful and challenging academic work and that they can do all of this in an
environment that values them as people” (Venet, 2021, P. 22)
● Week Four Outline: Developmentally Appropriate Practice
○ Focus: Infants and Toddlers
■ Class Outline
● Teaching Philosophy Assignment due 10/6 (Friday)
● Class readings
● Video activities
● Supporting a teaching philosophy with citations from the readings
● Assignment #5:
○ Take notes, get the sheet signed (you need proof of
observations)
■ Found on the assignment tab on brightspace, have
this printed and have them initial it, no matter where
you’re observing have it filled out
Class #4 Content on 9/25
● Major Theorists and Thinkers that have influenced ECE
○ Piaget: 4 Stages of Development
○ Vygotsky: Social Constructivism, Zone of Proximal Development
○ Erikson: 8 Stages of Development
○ Dewey
■ Experiential learning
■ Discussion
■ Interactive
■ Interdiscipinary
○ Frobel: The 20 Gifts
● Video: Wrap Up on History
○ Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASnAxQeVTeE
○ Brief History of Early Learning, Pt 2 Notes
■ First time there was high quality universal childcare
■ Women went back home after the war
■ There was a baby boom and a drastic need for childcare
■ In 1961 it was decided that intelligence is not necessarily genetic
, ■ Linden B Johnson started the program “Head Start” in the summer of 1965
for ¾ year olds of low income families
■ In 1971, congress passed the Comprehensive Child Care Act
■ In 1972, President Nixon vetoed the CCCA because he felt it was too
much like Russian programs
■ Today: Education and childcare varies based on zip code
● Childcare After Covid
○ Lots of childcare facilities were unfortunately shut down, social distancing made
the day to da function of programs very difficult
○ There was a large shift in the dynamic of work environments
■ Ie. Who is working? Where are they working? Home vs in person?
● What is the purpose of ECE?
○ Think about it, poke at it…we have discussed this in great detail before!
● Discussion of this Week’s Readings
○ Reading #1: They’re Not Too Young to Talk About Race
■ If they’re seeing it, they need to be talking about it
■ Ignorance is not bliss
■ Children experience
discrimination from birth,
if we dont talk about it,
how do we help them
cope with and learn from
it?
■ At three months children
look more at the faces that
match their caregivers
(Implicit Bias)
■ Implicit vs Explicit bias
■ Children as young as two
years old will use race to
reason about people's behaviors
■ Children are trying to figure out the puzzle of the world, they use their
sight to unpack that
■ Reinforced by communities, experiences made available, race is used to
choose playmates-this peaks at ⅘ years of age
■ The graphic we read is abt 5 years old, the studies are very outdated
■ Our understanding is MUCH better now
■ Conversations can improve these issues in the span of only one week,
what an impact!
