Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Assessment and Support Consortium Standards, the systems seem to showcase that these guidelines are for teachers to use to help teach our future students. The InTASC are classified into four sections: The Learner and Learning, Content, Instructional Practice, and Professional Responsibility. The InTASC system is teaching standards that present and future teachers should know and be able to teach in today’s educational system. This essay will show how the InTASC standards can help improve…

What is an Assessment Tool? The early year of children’s development is an important time for the growth of children’s brain growth and the opportunity in maximizing children learning in the different developmental domain i.e. physical, intellectual, emotional and social. Poor quality child care is of a concern as children requires responsive and simulating environment from the caregiver; this in turn helps them to enhance their social, cognitive and language development (Bronfenbrenner &…

First, I wonder why Mike does not participate in a more inclusive classroom. Indeed, I found the current educational setting was not appropriate for Mike to fulfill his full educational potential. For example, I found Mike to be attentive to teacher instruction, but he did not appear to be a challenged by the instruction. In my observations of Mike during small group and independent time…

In a few sentences, share your personal thoughts about each site and the mission of each organization. (4) 2. List and briefly describe the six program practices recommended by the Program for Infants Toddler Care (PITC) (18) 3. Reflect on each of the six. ‘New Approaches in infant-Toddler care’. These are not the same as the six program practices. Select one of the ‘New Approaches’ and share what captured your attention as you reflect on ‘what is known and what can be done’. Include ways that…

future life. It is very important to understand child development theory in order to get knowledge about children’s development and know children individually and their needs. Understanding theoretical perspective is very important for professional practice as an ECE. All child development theorists show connection that children learn when they are active and engage with people and environment around them. However, they provide their own research based on observation and findings through…

The intern teacher is able to design developmentally appropriate instruction with guidance from the mentor teacher. During instruction the intern is able to effectively implement lessons and additionally employ various instructional research based strategies. By focusing on providing multiple positive, appropriate, and challenging experiences the intern is able to provide instruction for varying student learners. The intern teacher adapts instruction for individual needs within the classroom.…

As a senior at Kendall College, I was able to make a variety of lesson plans and implement them. One thing I struggled a lot was creating lesson plans to include differentiate instruction in order to reach the variety of learners. Differentiated Instruction is being implemented in classrooms in order provide instruction for every student and hopefully see better outcomes of learning, growth and development. Differentiate instruction takes place when the children are learning the same concept in…

understandings and are dedicated to a philosophy of inclusion, consideration and integrity. In addition, the educational leader of a diverse population has to respect different talents, opinions, and backgrounds of its students and teachers, as well as, practice diversity. Educational leader have to guarantee all decisions are driven by their vision for their school organization. They have to set clear goals, hold themselves and others to a high criterion; and they must put students’…

Nursing care must be guided by the ANA’s Code of Ethics to determine best possible outcomes for Ting and resolve ethical dilemmas. Provision 2 of the Code of Ethics states, “The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, or community” (ANA, 2001, p. 9). For Ting, this means her needs must be the priority focus, but because she is Chinese and the family’s beliefs are based on Confucianism, these values and beliefs should also be incorporated into the care…

social norms, values and roles through play. It is essential to understand the dynamics of culture and its influence on child development especially in the contexts of family ethnic culture. Through play, children reflect and portray their own family practices, roles and values. For example, when Asian children played in pretend play, they portrayed more family role activities and less fantasy or fiction based play. The socio-cultural experiences mould children’s play in a unique way which is…