1. NAEYC Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8

2. Critical Issues
Reducing the learning gap and increasing the achievement of all children.
Creating improved, better connected education for preschool and elementary children.
Recognizing teacher knowledge and decision making as vital to educational effectiveness.

3. Reducing learning gaps and increasing achievement for all children
3 specific subgroups of children in the U.S. lag behind their peers: 1_______ 2_______ 3_______
Prime differences: 1_________ 2________
Part of larger concern: _________________
Action: Learning standards
Action: Child outcomes framework

4. Creating improved, better connected education for preschool and elementary children
Mandated accountability requirements.
Increased publicly funded early childhood experiences.
Alignment is critical – but should not be simplifying for younger children – but should be based on children’s development
Concerns: 1__________ 2_________ 3___________4__________5________ 6___________
Together teachers must ensure _____________

5. Recognizing teacher knowledge and decision making as vital to the educational process
Teacher preparation in child development
Teachers know the children in their classroom as a group and individually
1_______________2________________
3________________
Expert decision making requires that teachers have:
To make sound instructional decisions teachers need:
1 ________________2________________
In summary, good teaching requires:

6. Research 4 Domains: PIES
Learning Goals _________ 2_______ 3__________
Proven practices 1_________ 2__________ 3________
Research about teachers
Knowledge about____________
Repertoire of______________

7. Core Considerations
Knowledge to consider in making decisions 1___________ 2_______ 3 ___________
Challenging and achievable goals for acquiring skills, abilities or knowledge – stretch, mastery and set new goals
Teachers are INTENTIONAL
1__________ 2_________ 3__________ 4_________ 5_________ 6_________

8. Principles of child development
Not based on what we _________ be true nor on what we _______ about young children.
Developmentally appropriate practice is informed by what we know from___________
Just as all domains of development and learning are ____________,
All principles _____________

9. Principle #1 All domains of development and learning are important and they are closely interrelated.

10. Principle #2 Aspects of children’s learning follow well documented sequences.

11. Principal #3 Development and learning proceed at different rates

12. Principle #4 Development and learning result from interaction of biological maturation and experience

13. Principle #5 Early experiences have a profound effects on development and learning AND optimal periods exist for certain types of development and learning.

14. Principle #6 Development proceeds toward greater complexity, self-regulation, and symbolic or representational capacities

15. Principle #7 Children develop best when they have secure, consistent relationships with responsive adults and opportunities for positive relationships with peers.

16. Principle #8 Development and learning occur in and are influenced by multiple social and cultural contexts.

17. Principle #9 Children learn in a variety of ways: a wide range of teaching strategies and interactions are effective

18. Principle #10 Play is an important vehicle for developing self regulation as well as for promoting language, cognition, and social competence.

19. Principle #11 Development and learning advance when children are challenged to achieve at a level just beyond their current mastery, and also when they have opportunities to practice newly acquired skills.

20. Principle # 12 Children’s experiences shape their motivation and approaches to learning, such as persistence, initiative, and flexibility; in turn, these dispositions and behaviors affect their learning and development.

21. Guidelines for developmentally appropriate practice.
Creating a caring community of learners
Teaching to enhance development and learning
Planning curriculum to achieve important goals
Assessing children’s development and learning
Establishing reciprocal relationships with families.