observations of his own children The Circular Reaction: a. Circular reactions are the means by which infants explore the environment and build schemes by trying to repeat chance events caused by their own motor activity. b. These reactions are first centered on the infant’s own body. Subsequently‚ they change to manipulating objects and then to producing novel effects in the environment. Substage 1: Reflexive Schemes - a. Piaget regarded newborn reflexes as the building blocks of sensorimotor intelligence
Premium Infant Child development Jean Piaget
Competency Goal #1 To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment. One of the primary concerns in a preschool center based program is establishing and maintaining a safe‚ healthy learning environment. I will explain how I maintain this with examples in different areas and the goals I feel are important for a child to achieve. Two of the activities that I practice are fire safety and tornado drills. The purpose of fire/tornado drills is to let the children know where and
Premium Education Childhood Child
Competency Goal 1 To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy‚ learning environment. When running a childcare facility it is necessary to ensure that you are providing the kids with a safe‚ healthy learning environment. A child’s abilities is continually shaped and growing due with the help of their care providers. As a care provider you can easily develop a safe‚ healthy learning environment by making sure you are abiding by state laws and consistently helping kids get better safety and health
Premium Childhood Education Developmental psychology
Competency Goal 1 To Establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy‚ learning environment Functional Area 1: Safe To reduce injury I always use the saying if you can predict something might happen then prevent it before. Children do not understand that there are dangers all around them‚ whether its the toys they play with‚ other kids and their belonging or the equipment that they play on. The important goals that I have are always to put the children’s safety‚ happiness and their needs first. The best
Premium Childhood Child Psychology
through ages 12‚ By Celia Decker. children/ toddlers are between ages of one and three years old. As toddlers develop physically their body start to mature. All the others don’t grow as quickly as infants they go through many important physical changes. Toddlers grow at different rates. Toddler go through certain stages such as‚ the physical development intellectual development‚ and social emotional development‚ and there are certain ways to care for toddlers. Most time is the game to walk without
Premium Infant Eating Food
Competency Statement #1 To establish and main a safe‚ healthy learning environment I believe it is important to establish and maintain a safe and healthy learning environment by keeping my center and play ground area clean and free of the things that are harmful to my children. I believe the first steps to encourage learning is to keep a clean and safe environment‚ that my children’s minds will be stimulated and will meet there individual learning styles. My goal is to encourage my children
Premium Nutrition Play Learning
CDA Competency Goals Functional Areas I. To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment. 1. Safe: Candidate provides a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries. 2. Healthy: Candidate promotes good health and nutrition and provides an environment that contributes to the prevention of illness. 3. Learning Environment: Candidate uses space‚ relationships‚ materials‚ and routines as resources for constructing an interesting‚ secure‚ and enjoyable environment
Premium Childhood Developmental psychology Communication
Competency Goal VI To maintain a commitment to professionalism Function Area 13: Professionalism As a professional‚ I promote child development‚ learning and build family and community relationships. I continue to attend professional development sessions and read articles about early childhood. I am a continuous‚ collaborative learner who demonstrates knowledge in my field from all types of sources. The Philadelphia School District provides the Head Start staff with many in-service training programs
Premium Childhood Teacher Developmental psychology
Competency Goal 1 To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment Functional Area 1: Safe My goal in this functional area is to keep children safe at all times by supervising them constantly and establishing class rules that will help children stay safe. The class rules related to this functional area will be walk in the classroom‚ keep your hands to yourself‚ and stay in the classroom at all times. I will teach children why these class rules are so important as well. In addition
Premium Education Learning
Competency Standard III: To support social and emotional development and to provide positive guidance. As a childcare provider‚ I help children gain a sense of self by labeling their cubbies with their photos‚ names‚ and birthdates. I help them recognize and pronounce their names. I include activities and books about different cultures and different home environments. I provide activities that they are capable of completing and materials that are age appropriate‚ I encourage children to share
Premium Psychology Empathy Behavior