FL DCF Child Care Understanding Developmentally
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Developmentally appropriate toys and materials should be - ✔✔safe, appealing, age appropriate,
avoid stereotypes, and reflect the needs and ethnic diversity of the children in the classroom.
During the preschool years, children need to have access to a variety of materials and learning
activities, - ✔✔in order to fine-tune their skills.
Each learning center should be filled with printed words that are - ✔✔meaningful and at a level
where children can easily see them.
Early childhood classrooms should be - ✔✔welcoming, warm, and inviting for young children. Adults
can encourage involvement and support independence by carefully arranging the environment to
facilitate learning.
Early childhood professionals need to have a - ✔✔specific knowledge related to the age group of the
children they have in care. From this, they can use that knowledge to support development by
planning experiences that are appropriate for each child and their stage of development across
multiple domains.
Early childhood professionals need to have a general understanding of how children - ✔✔typically
grow and develop.
Engaging diverse families in early childhood programs - ✔✔helps promote the health and well-being
of the whole family.
Erik Erikson's Social Theory - ✔✔explores what a person learns when development proceeds
successfully throughout life, from birth to old age. This theory suggests the way adults interact with
children in the initial stages determines how the children will develop, because each stage is built
upon the previous stage.
Erik Erikson's Stages of
Social Development Examples: - ✔✔-Allow children to make appropriate choices throughout the day.
Where would they like to play? What would they like to do or make?
-Offer choices when guiding behavior. Offer two acceptable choices, such as: "Would you like to join
us in blocks or read a book at the table?"
-Encourage initiative.
-Draw attention to accomplishments by identifying what they have done versus general statements (I
see you painted the whole page vs. I like your painting).
-Allow children to correct their own mistakes. If they spill their milk, do not shame them. Let them
feel success by allowing them to clean it up with your assistance.
Erikson's eight stages are defined as: - ✔✔1. Trust vs. Mistrust (birth to 1 year) - "I am all right."
2. Autonomy vs. Doubt/Shame (1 to 3 years) - "I can make choices."
3. Initiative vs. Guilt (4 to 5 years) - "I can do and I can make."
4. Industry vs. Inferiority (6 to 12 years) - "I can join with others in doing and making things."
5. Identity vs. Role Confusion (adolescence) - "I can be to others what I am to myself."
6. Intimacy vs. Isolation (later adolescence) - "I can risk offering myself to another."
7. Generativity vs. Stagnation (adulthood) - "I am concerned for others."
,8. Integrity vs. Despair (older adult) - "I can accept my life."
Establish relationships with families - ✔✔This guideline is important because families are the most
important partners to ensure children are successful in their development.
Establishing a partnership with parents requires - ✔✔consistent communication. Caregivers and
parents need to acknowledge and deal with differences in child-rearing beliefs and practices in a
constructive way. The common goal should be the development of the child!
Every child care program will be different, but as required in child care rules and regulations, each
must have - ✔✔a daily plan of activities and daily schedule posted in an accessible place.
Every day, caregivers take on many roles, from being an observer in the classroom to being a
community liaison. Caregivers roles might include: - ✔✔Observer
Programmer
Teacher
Discipliner
Nurturer
Administrator
Community Networker
Experts agree that play, both indoors and outside, is an important part of early childhood
development, and that well-organized outdoor environments - ✔✔help children develop physically,
socially and intellectually.
Favorite learning environments are: - ✔✔Safe (familiar people, places, colors, smells / no dangerous
objects or unfamiliar people or animals, etc.)
Comfortable (clean/tidy/well organized environment, plenty of room, good lighting, comfortable
seating/temperature, soothing colors, appropriate music, playground, nature, outdoors, etc.)
Full of supplies (paper, pencils, crayons, paint, chalk, toys, etc.)
Fine motor development progresses slowly over time. Development is best supported when children
have enough - ✔✔time, appropriate materials, and adult support when practicing and refining skills.
For children, the lack of organization can cause - ✔✔great confusion and can have devastating
effects on their ability to establish healthy relationships.
For infant and toddler programs, - ✔✔it is not necessary to divide the classroom into learning
centers. Spaces should be less defined and more flexible.
Formal Operations (11 years and beyond) - - ✔✔The final stage of cognitive development, in which
thinking becomes very abstract. Children think beyond the present and think about ideal situations.
Forming partnerships with parents - ✔✔is one of the ways we support healthy growth and
development in children.
High-quality care - ✔✔helps parents to be better employees and it helps employers to retain a stable
workforce, which in turn helps the entire community.
High-quality care means - ✔✔children are getting the solid foundation they need to be healthy,
happy, and successful throughout life.
How can you make every parent and child look forward to coming into your classroom each day? -
✔✔Greet each child at the door, if possible.
Make eye contact with the children, or position yourself at their eye level, to let them know you are
really listening.
Create a comfortable and inviting environment.
, Share observations about children with parents.
Call each child by name.
Have activities for the children to do when they enter.
How might you arrange the classroom to enhance learning? - ✔✔Use carpets to define areas, use
shelves to create entrances and exits, separate loud and quiet areas/messy and clean activities into
zones
How well you deal with that stress will determine the kind of care the children will receive. -
✔✔Working in child care can be very stressful because caregivers are often asked to fulfill many
roles.
If the synapses are used repeatedly, they become permanent in the brain. However; - ✔✔If a child is
not stimulated through events and experiences, the synapses are lost and do not form connections.
If trust is never developed, - ✔✔children can't fully develop autonomy.
If you think a child may be exhibiting warning signs of a developmental delay, - ✔✔inform your
director of your concerns immediately.
In the beginning, children understand much more than they can express. - ✔✔Because infants and
toddlers begin to develop language by imitating what is said to and around them, it is important to
talk to them, interact with them, and be a good role model.
Increase in finger control/coordination begins with - ✔✔play and self-help activities that allow
children to practice using their fingers to manipulate objects.
Indicators of quality include: - ✔✔both structural and process measures.
Quality child care programs consistently maintain licensing standards and demonstrate responsive
caregiving practices.
Information caregivers can provide to parents - ✔✔Interaction with other children
Progression in development
Child's interests
How they slept and ate while in care
Diapering/potty information
What the child did during day
Information about the child's friends
Information parents can provide to caregivers - ✔✔Health and growth history
Relationship with other family members
Family history (divorce, separation, remarriage, sources of family stress)
Child's likes/dislikes
Eating/sleeping trends at home
Allergies/medical information
Family culture/lifestyle
Intellectual development - ✔✔refers to the way children think, reason, problem solve, and discover
meaning in the world around them.
Intellectual/Cognitive development theories - ✔✔focus on children developing an intellectual
understanding of their world. Children interact with materials and people in the environment to
construct knowledge. Children are naturally curious about the world around them and they learn best
when they are stimulated and interested in what they are doing.
Intense, extended conversations help build - ✔✔vocabulary, comprehension and understanding
necessary for success in school and later in life.
Appropriate Practices (UDAP) Exam Questions and
Correct Answers
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Developmentally appropriate toys and materials should be - ✔✔safe, appealing, age appropriate,
avoid stereotypes, and reflect the needs and ethnic diversity of the children in the classroom.
During the preschool years, children need to have access to a variety of materials and learning
activities, - ✔✔in order to fine-tune their skills.
Each learning center should be filled with printed words that are - ✔✔meaningful and at a level
where children can easily see them.
Early childhood classrooms should be - ✔✔welcoming, warm, and inviting for young children. Adults
can encourage involvement and support independence by carefully arranging the environment to
facilitate learning.
Early childhood professionals need to have a - ✔✔specific knowledge related to the age group of the
children they have in care. From this, they can use that knowledge to support development by
planning experiences that are appropriate for each child and their stage of development across
multiple domains.
Early childhood professionals need to have a general understanding of how children - ✔✔typically
grow and develop.
Engaging diverse families in early childhood programs - ✔✔helps promote the health and well-being
of the whole family.
Erik Erikson's Social Theory - ✔✔explores what a person learns when development proceeds
successfully throughout life, from birth to old age. This theory suggests the way adults interact with
children in the initial stages determines how the children will develop, because each stage is built
upon the previous stage.
Erik Erikson's Stages of
Social Development Examples: - ✔✔-Allow children to make appropriate choices throughout the day.
Where would they like to play? What would they like to do or make?
-Offer choices when guiding behavior. Offer two acceptable choices, such as: "Would you like to join
us in blocks or read a book at the table?"
-Encourage initiative.
-Draw attention to accomplishments by identifying what they have done versus general statements (I
see you painted the whole page vs. I like your painting).
-Allow children to correct their own mistakes. If they spill their milk, do not shame them. Let them
feel success by allowing them to clean it up with your assistance.
Erikson's eight stages are defined as: - ✔✔1. Trust vs. Mistrust (birth to 1 year) - "I am all right."
2. Autonomy vs. Doubt/Shame (1 to 3 years) - "I can make choices."
3. Initiative vs. Guilt (4 to 5 years) - "I can do and I can make."
4. Industry vs. Inferiority (6 to 12 years) - "I can join with others in doing and making things."
5. Identity vs. Role Confusion (adolescence) - "I can be to others what I am to myself."
6. Intimacy vs. Isolation (later adolescence) - "I can risk offering myself to another."
7. Generativity vs. Stagnation (adulthood) - "I am concerned for others."
,8. Integrity vs. Despair (older adult) - "I can accept my life."
Establish relationships with families - ✔✔This guideline is important because families are the most
important partners to ensure children are successful in their development.
Establishing a partnership with parents requires - ✔✔consistent communication. Caregivers and
parents need to acknowledge and deal with differences in child-rearing beliefs and practices in a
constructive way. The common goal should be the development of the child!
Every child care program will be different, but as required in child care rules and regulations, each
must have - ✔✔a daily plan of activities and daily schedule posted in an accessible place.
Every day, caregivers take on many roles, from being an observer in the classroom to being a
community liaison. Caregivers roles might include: - ✔✔Observer
Programmer
Teacher
Discipliner
Nurturer
Administrator
Community Networker
Experts agree that play, both indoors and outside, is an important part of early childhood
development, and that well-organized outdoor environments - ✔✔help children develop physically,
socially and intellectually.
Favorite learning environments are: - ✔✔Safe (familiar people, places, colors, smells / no dangerous
objects or unfamiliar people or animals, etc.)
Comfortable (clean/tidy/well organized environment, plenty of room, good lighting, comfortable
seating/temperature, soothing colors, appropriate music, playground, nature, outdoors, etc.)
Full of supplies (paper, pencils, crayons, paint, chalk, toys, etc.)
Fine motor development progresses slowly over time. Development is best supported when children
have enough - ✔✔time, appropriate materials, and adult support when practicing and refining skills.
For children, the lack of organization can cause - ✔✔great confusion and can have devastating
effects on their ability to establish healthy relationships.
For infant and toddler programs, - ✔✔it is not necessary to divide the classroom into learning
centers. Spaces should be less defined and more flexible.
Formal Operations (11 years and beyond) - - ✔✔The final stage of cognitive development, in which
thinking becomes very abstract. Children think beyond the present and think about ideal situations.
Forming partnerships with parents - ✔✔is one of the ways we support healthy growth and
development in children.
High-quality care - ✔✔helps parents to be better employees and it helps employers to retain a stable
workforce, which in turn helps the entire community.
High-quality care means - ✔✔children are getting the solid foundation they need to be healthy,
happy, and successful throughout life.
How can you make every parent and child look forward to coming into your classroom each day? -
✔✔Greet each child at the door, if possible.
Make eye contact with the children, or position yourself at their eye level, to let them know you are
really listening.
Create a comfortable and inviting environment.
, Share observations about children with parents.
Call each child by name.
Have activities for the children to do when they enter.
How might you arrange the classroom to enhance learning? - ✔✔Use carpets to define areas, use
shelves to create entrances and exits, separate loud and quiet areas/messy and clean activities into
zones
How well you deal with that stress will determine the kind of care the children will receive. -
✔✔Working in child care can be very stressful because caregivers are often asked to fulfill many
roles.
If the synapses are used repeatedly, they become permanent in the brain. However; - ✔✔If a child is
not stimulated through events and experiences, the synapses are lost and do not form connections.
If trust is never developed, - ✔✔children can't fully develop autonomy.
If you think a child may be exhibiting warning signs of a developmental delay, - ✔✔inform your
director of your concerns immediately.
In the beginning, children understand much more than they can express. - ✔✔Because infants and
toddlers begin to develop language by imitating what is said to and around them, it is important to
talk to them, interact with them, and be a good role model.
Increase in finger control/coordination begins with - ✔✔play and self-help activities that allow
children to practice using their fingers to manipulate objects.
Indicators of quality include: - ✔✔both structural and process measures.
Quality child care programs consistently maintain licensing standards and demonstrate responsive
caregiving practices.
Information caregivers can provide to parents - ✔✔Interaction with other children
Progression in development
Child's interests
How they slept and ate while in care
Diapering/potty information
What the child did during day
Information about the child's friends
Information parents can provide to caregivers - ✔✔Health and growth history
Relationship with other family members
Family history (divorce, separation, remarriage, sources of family stress)
Child's likes/dislikes
Eating/sleeping trends at home
Allergies/medical information
Family culture/lifestyle
Intellectual development - ✔✔refers to the way children think, reason, problem solve, and discover
meaning in the world around them.
Intellectual/Cognitive development theories - ✔✔focus on children developing an intellectual
understanding of their world. Children interact with materials and people in the environment to
construct knowledge. Children are naturally curious about the world around them and they learn best
when they are stimulated and interested in what they are doing.
Intense, extended conversations help build - ✔✔vocabulary, comprehension and understanding
necessary for success in school and later in life.
