Assessment in Early Childhood Education The 1980s brought a new reform movement in education‚ accompanied by a new emphasis on testing. The effort to improve education at all levels included the use of standardized tests to provide accountability for what students are learning. Minimum competency tests‚ achievement tests‚ and screening instruments were used to ensure that students from preschool through college reached the desired educational goals and achieved the minimum standards of education that were
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According to the National Center for Education Statistics‚ roughly 60 percent of young children attend some form of a pre-primary school program. Whether the specific program calls itself an early learning center‚ preschool‚ nursery or childcare center‚ day care can have a profound effect on a child’s development. From bringing on budding socialization skills to affecting behavior‚ the day care environment plays a pivotal role in the growth and changes of early childhood. The quality of the day-care is
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NFP program’s birth came about through the observations and experiences of David Olds (the founder) while working in a day care center in the inner city of West Baltimore‚ in the early 1970s. The center served children aged three to five years with a curriculum that was majorly play. Olds noticed this and decided to reintroduce a new curriculum that involved play‚ cognitive stimulation and increased parental involvement in order to improve child health and development. However‚ he realized that his
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Observation of Early Childhood The subject of my observation was Josephine‚ a three year old Caucasian female in her home environment located in Lake Highlands‚ as well as a thirty minute observation at her gymnastics class at Little Gym. She is an only child in a two-parent middle-class household and spends fifteen hours a week with a bilingual nanny while her mother is at work at a hair salon and her father is at school teaching middle school English. I observed activities in problem-solving
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Good communication in early childhood is essential because without communication the child wanders hopelessly around looking for some explanation as to why things work the way they do. When born‚ children know who to look for‚ listen to and bond with. Even before birth their brains are already somewhat “prewired for survival” (Gerrig & Zimbardo 2008) Doctors and scientists have researched that in the womb babies favour the sound of their mother’s voices rather than voices of their fathers or a stranger
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Alexis Foster 1. Early Child hood Caries Early Childhood Caries is a disease that has many names‚ for example‚ dental caries and a cavity. Childhood Caries is a disease in ones mouth caused from missing or cavity food. It usually occurs in the primary teeth of school-aged children due to the excess consumption of sugary foods and bacteria from the mouth. On a biological level‚ it is mainly caused from a particular bacteria “streptococcus” on tooth enamel. Dental caries is most prevalent in South
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I have had to ustilize a variety of assessment tools in an early childhood education setting during my time at Post University. Specifically‚ I was required to complete a lengthy assessment project in my Emergent Literacy class. I was required to select a student who struggled with reading and writing and then had to adminster many different assessments. I performed these assessments on three different days in the time period of a month. Some of the tools that I used for this literacy case study
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Intro to early childhood edu Assignment #1 I believe the purpose of education is to provide children with the basic academic skills that they will need to succeed in life. Some of the academic skills include math‚ so they understand how much fifty cents plus fifty cents is‚ writing‚ so they are able to fill out job applications and write checks out for bills‚ or simply spell their name‚ and how to read‚ so they understand the job applications they are filling
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Early Childhood Education Com 156 April 20‚ 2012 Facilitator Cheryl Mason In early Childhood Education; teaching a child to read and write at early ages can have positive results when showing them educational
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The Role of Early Childhood Education Robert M Brown By Robert M Brown Apr 11‚ 2014 Every child needs to experience early childhood education before they attend kindergarten. This experience offers support to prepare children for decision making later on in life. It also creates a foundation for the education they will receive as they grow older. Various support systems and services have been put in place by the federal government to provide high quality early childhood education. Apart from passing
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