CDA Competency Goals and Functional Areas CDA Competency Goal I. To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment Functional Area 1. Safe 2. Healthy Definitions Student provides a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries. Student promotes good health and nutrition and provides an environment that contributes to the prevention of illness. Student uses space‚ relationships‚ materials and routines as resources for constructing an interesting‚ secure‚ and enjoyable environment that
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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD The Sensorimotor Stage Piaget based the sensorimotor stage on his 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
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Preschool Caregivers in Center-Based Programs Table 1: CDA Competency Goals and Functional Areas CDA COMPETENCY GOALS /. To establish and main-tain a safe‚ healthy learning environment FUNCTIONAL AREAS LSafe 2. Healthy DEFINITIONS Candidate provides a safe environment and teaches children safe practices to prevent and reduce injuries. Candidate provides an environment that promotes health and prevents illness‚ and teaches children about good nutrition and practices that promote
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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
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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
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CDA competency goal #1: To establish and maintian safe a safe‚ healthy learning environment. Functional area #1: Safe In order to provide a safe environment to prevent injuries I’d do the following: •I would check every toy and equipment the children will be occupying for broken or missing parts often‚ to ensure that they remain safe for use and play. •I would make sure that all chemicals and cleaning supplies are put away out of the reach of children or stored away in locked cabinets to prevent
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Chanae Butler March‚ 12‚ 2012 CDA Class Competency Goal I To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment Safe Young Infants: To have a safe environment for infants it is very important that you keep objects out of there cribs. Make sure all swings are safe and stable. Also be very sure to keep all tummy time objects clean. Try to keep them safe and close from mobile infants. Mobile Infants: I keep mobile infants safe by keeping all small choking objects off the floor
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Reflective Statement To advance physical competence‚ I allow children the opportunity to use their large and small muscles in various capacities. With young infants‚ I allow them the space to kick‚ roll over‚ or have tummy time. Playing music or singing to them allows them to use these skills more adequately. With mobile infants and toddlers‚ I give them activities that allow them to walk or run to use their gross motor skills. I also give them activities to help with their fine motor skills‚ such
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Infants learn best through everyday experiences and interactions with familiar people in familiar contexts. What this means is that‚ each child benefits from learning but when they have a familiar face to to interact with and learn around they are going to open up more than they would with a complete stranger. Having a bond with an individual will allow the infant and toddler to trust who they are around and with that allowing them to put their wall down to learn more. When thinking in these terms
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Goal 1 – To maintain a safe‚ healthy learning enviroment. To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment I model safety practices and healthy routines in an environment that supports development and growth in these areas. To accomplish this goal I complete daily safety checklists that include ensuring exits and hallways are open‚ electrical cords are out of reach‚ evacuation procedures are posted‚ fire extinguisher is working‚ emergency numbers are posted‚ sharp objects and
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