Developmentally Appropriate Education Essay

There have been many discussions about rather developmentally appropriate education is a good thing to follow or a bad thing. In today’s society as education providers, teachers must make sure they are meeting the child’s needs of where they are as in individual. Teachers must also make sure they are supporting the child and where they are in order for the goals the teacher and child has to be accomplished and can be achieved. Not only must teachers make sure they are meeting the child’s needs and supporting them, they also have to make sure that what they are teaching is age appropriate and is appropriate for each child individually and that it is appropriate culturally due to having many culture backgrounds in a classroom. In order to make …show more content…
Developmentally appropriate education is a way that teachers can help the children move from where they are to where they should be in a way that fits their learning style. When teaching developmentally appropriate education teachers must make sure they know what is appropriate for the student as an individual and as a group. They need to make sure it is culturally appropriate as well so that way it doesn’t seem as if the teacher is discriminating in anyway. (NAEYC, …show more content…
The classroom should be student led with the teacher in the background helping when it is time to step in and help. They should make sure the class has an age appropriate schedule that the students can look at every day and memorize it so they know that it will be the same each day and they will not change at all. There should be multiple chances for students to be able to get challenged so they can use their deep thinking skills to be able to comprehend what is being