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Observation when a child care worker recognizes and notes an identifiable performance or behavior and uses instruments such as checklists, anecdotal records and running records. The instruments are used to measure progress against a standard and to share results with assessment experts. Screening instrument intended to identify and monitor normal development or possible developmental delay. Screening programs are not diagnostic, and are not based on whether a child has passed a certai...

What affect does quality early care on children? "...children who have high-quality care see academic benefits lasting into high school." DAP Developmentally Appropriate Practice focuses on children birth to eight years old and is made up of three principle components: age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and social/cultural appropriateness. Age appropriateness considering what is typical for a child within a given age group. Individual appropriateness cons...

Appetite A desire to eat. Isolation Area A designated area for a child who becomes ill at the facility, which must be away from the other, healthy children. Safety Hazards Things in the environment that can be identified as dangerous to one's health and welfare. Communicable Disease Disease that can be spread from one person to another. Disinfect To kill germs on surfaces or objects by using chemicals. This process does not necessarily clean dirty surfaces or re...

DCF Department of Children and Families DCF Responsibilities Administration of child care licensing and training Ensuring children are well cared for in a safe, healthy, positive, and educational environment by trained, qualified child care staff This agency determines state rules pertaining to child care and enforces these rules by licensing and inspecting child care facilities. Child Care Professionals Roles and Responsibilities -must know, understand, and follow the law...

Regulation is a law, rule, ordinance, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct. Child care the care, protection, and supervision of a child for a period of less than 24 hours a day on a regular basis A child care program is either licensed, registered or exempt from licensure. The main types of child care programs in Florida are: child care facilities, specialized child care mildly ill facilities, family day care homes, large family child care ho...

Florida Law Bill passed and signed by FL legislators Rules implement, interpret, and describe law Ordinance local laws that only apply within jurisdiction Regulation law, rule, or ordinance to regulate conduct Florida Statutes permanent collection of the states laws, updated annually Florida Administrative Code official compilation of administrative rules for the state of Florida. F.A.C Rules developed by DCF Office of Child Care Regulation a...

Why do childcare professionals observe and screen children? So they can facilitate the growth and development of every child in their program, detect early signs of development, delay or disability, and identify signs of child abuse or neglect. Observation an ongoing process in which child care professionals recognize and document identifiable developmental milestones as they appear using tools such as checklists, anecdotal records, and running records Screening is an ongoing pr...

establish justice make a fair and honest system for all form a more perfect union create an even better government that will make life better for all insure domestic tranquility government will protect citizens from conflict in the country and make sure that states do not go to war with each other ordain to establish something by law Preamble the introduction to the U.S. Constitution promote the general welfare government is focused on the public interest...

What are the two types of cell Prokaryotic cell and eukaryotic cell I put a Pop-Tart in the toaster. Electrical energy is transformed to thermal energy to make my Pop-Tart hot. Based on the Law of Conservation of Energy, once my Pop-Tart starts to cool, is energy lost? Energy cannot be created or destroyed At a constant velocity, a 5kg bag of cement is pulled straight up a 7m wall. How much work is done by the puller? (Gravitational pull is 9.8m/s2, W(J)=F(N)*D(m) 343J Wh...

What are Darwin's three conditions for natural selection? 1) Heritable characters 2) Characters show variation between individuals 3) Differential fitness (= survival, reproduction) between individuals What is the definition of evolution? genetic change over time in a population Is all evolution caused by natural selection? no Is natural selection the only consistent force leading to adaptations? yes What types of evidence can be gathered for evolution? Fossil...

checks and balances the Constitutional mechanisms that authorize each branch of government to share powers with the other branches and thereby check their activities civil rights the protections and privileges of personal liberty given to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution and Bill of Righ communism a political and economic system in which factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state confederate of, or pertaining to, a group of states more or less ...

Box plot a way of graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their quartiles Consecutive one following the other, for example, 19 and 20 are consecutive numbers Data a collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations or even just descriptions of things Dot plot a graphical display of data using dots Event a set of possible outcomes resulting from a particular experiment. For example, a possible event when a single six-sided die ...

Monarchy One person from a royal family is ruler Dictatorship Absolute power of one leader Oligarchy Governed by a smart upper class group Representative democracy people elect officials to represent their views Central Government Also known as Federal Government Legislative branch Branch of the federal government that makes laws Executive branch Branch of the federal government that carries out laws Judicial branch Branch of the federal g...

Abiogenesis Belief that livings things may develop from lifeless matter Acid A compound that In water produces hydrogen ions, usually tastes sour, a pH less than 7 Acid rain rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water Alloy Homogenous mixture composed of two or more metals Amoeba A type of Protozoan that has no permanent shape Amorphous having no definit...

sum the answer to an addition problem the difference the answer to a subtraction problem product the answer to a multiplication problem quotient the answer to a division problem divisor the number you divide by remainder the number that remains after subtraction words used in addtion word problems sum, total, all together words used in a subtraction word problem how much more, how much less, find the difference, and deduct words oft...

1 pound in ounces 16 ounces 1 gallon in quarts 4 quarts 1 quart in pints 2 pints 1 pint in cups 2.5 cups 1 pint in ounces 20 ounces 1 cup in ounces 8 ounces 1 liter in quarts 1 quart milliliter = of a liter 1/1000 of a gram milligram = of a gram 1/1000 of a gram meter in inches 39 inches millimeter of a meter 1/1000 kilometer of a meter 1000 meters kilometers in a mile 0.6 miles nationalism t...

"WOW! Mom rides a kayak at noon." How are the underlined words alike? They are palindromes Who was the author of Common Sense: Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson? Thomas Paine What is NOT a real shark: hammerhead, shovelhead, or tigerhead? tigerhead What is the force that slows down an object or stops its motion? friction Which is greater than 90 degrees: an acute angle or an obtuse angle? obtuse angle What continent lies East of Europe? (page 1) Asia ...

Philia love Sophia wisdom Herodotus (who said) love of exercising curiosity & intelligence Plato (who said) love of wisdom that could face the test & critical decision William James (who said) the collective name of questions that have not been answered by those who asked them Being anything that can be known General Definition of Philosophy the science of being in their ultimate cause, reason & principle with the aid of human reason alone ...

In the words of Thomas DeQuincey, "It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it." If, like most people, you have trouble recalling the names of those you have just met, try this: The next time you are introduced, plan to remember the names. Say to yourself, "I'll listen carefully; I'll repeat each person's name to be sure I've got it, and I will remember." You'll discover how effective this technique is and probably recall those names for the rest of yo...