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Overview of The NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards: Created By: Amy Kerr

The NAEYC early childhood program standards outline key areas for developing high-quality early education programs. The standards address the importance of relationships in building self-worth and laying the foundation for life success. The curriculum is designed to be anti-bias, diverse, and promote social, emotional, physical, language, and cognitive development based on observations of students. Teaching methods should be developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate to enhance each child's strengths. Assessment of child progress is used to adjust learning and ensure all students' needs are met. Health, teachers, families, community relationships, physical environments, and leadership/management are also addressed as important factors for optimal learning.

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Overview of The NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards: Created By: Amy Kerr

The NAEYC early childhood program standards outline key areas for developing high-quality early education programs. The standards address the importance of relationships in building self-worth and laying the foundation for life success. The curriculum is designed to be anti-bias, diverse, and promote social, emotional, physical, language, and cognitive development based on observations of students. Teaching methods should be developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate to enhance each child's strengths. Assessment of child progress is used to adjust learning and ensure all students' needs are met. Health, teachers, families, community relationships, physical environments, and leadership/management are also addressed as important factors for optimal learning.

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Overview of the NAEYC

Early Childhood Program Standards

Created By: Amy Kerr

Relationships
The early childhood environment is a valuable setting for
building relationships. The children will learn self worth.
When a child values themselves they are more
productive academically, and learning to become an
individual. They should feel safe and important. The
relationships that are forged in early childhood contribute
to many assets later in life.

Curriculum
The early childhood curriculum is anti-bias, diverse, and
studies social, emotional, physical, language, and cognitive
learning. After an observation assessment a teacher can
make their daily lesson plans that factor around the learning
needs of her students. It is important to allow for selfinitiated learning, free play, creative expression, and to have
individual and group learning activities.

Teaching
Teaching programs should consist of developmental, cultural,
linguistic, and effective methods to embellish each child's
fundamentals. Teachers use many different approaches to
promote learning opportunities. Teachers use structured and
unstructured approaches. Teachers will allow children to
participate and direct lessons to help them learn. Early
childhood has many factors in the way teachers teach. Some
may seem irrational to the outsider, but everything they do
poses a purposeful way of learning.

Assessment of Child Progress


Assessment of children's progress is used to adjust the
learning curriculums appropriately. Assessments are
ongoing systematic, formal, and informal. The purpose of
assessing is to determine if extra help is need to reach a
student's developmental learning, to help make sure
lessons and activities are benefiting the students, and to
improve programs to better identify with students
developmental learning.

Health
The health program provides healthy, and nutritious food
options for students, and staff to help prevent illness and
injury. To improve student's learning they need to be
healthy. Health is not just being disease free, but mentally,
physically, orally, and socially healthy. Teachers provide
healthy options for students, and they learn to make their
own healthy decisions. It can also help prevent bad
decision making.

Teachers
Early childhood teachers are hired on their knowledge,
educational qualifications, and professional commitment.
These qualifications can provide an education that is antibias, and culturally diverse. To be an effective early
childhood teacher you need to continue your education to
benefit your students. Teaching is a never ending learning
opportunity.

Families
Family is a crucial factor in a student's education.
Teachers should have a trusting and respectful
relationship with each student's family. Knowing where a
student comes from. and what diverse learning habits they
have will help with assessing their learning options and
needs. Children's first teachers are their parents. Also
invite family to join the classroom activities, and to
support and promote their child's educational learning.

Community Relationships
Community relationships are crucial to providing families
and students with the resources they need to flourish. The
community can meet the goals of the educational program
through health programs, diversity, and transitions.
Transitioning into the school environment or to a new
community, everyone can help provide essential
information to students and their families.

Physical Environments
The physical environment at an early childhood facility
should be safe, well organized, cultural, diverse, and
provide indoor and outdoor activities that are safe and
supplemental to the curriculum. An early childhood facility
should be welcoming, comforting, safe, healthy, and
accessible to students, families, faculty, and guest. A
teachers room can say a lot about how they teach your
children.

Leadership and Management


Having the proper and sound structure of management
and leadership at a facility governs how it will operate as a
whole. Every role is important to keep the facility running
productively, and efficiently. These are all needed to
provide students, families, and staff with the best
experiences possible to promote and encourage learning to
its fullest potential.

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