ECE 133 - Child Health, Safety, and Nutrition

1. Child Development and Learning in Context
   • Understand the developmental period of early childhood from birth through age 8 across physical, cognitive, social and emotional, and linguistic domains, including bilingual/multilingual development (NAEYC Standard 1a).
   • Understand the ways that child development and the learning process occur in multiple contexts, including family, culture, language, community, and early learning setting, as well as in a larger societal context that includes structural inequities. (NAEYC Standard 1c).
2. Family-Teacher Partnerships and Community Connections
   • Know about, understand, and value the diversity of families (NAEYC Standard 2a).
   • Use community resources to support young children’s learning and development and to support families, and build partnerships between early learning settings, schools, and community organizations and agencies (NAEYC Standard 2c).
3. Child Observation, Documentation, and Assessment
   • Know a wide range of types of assessments, their purposes, and their associated methods and tools  (NAEYC Standard 3b).
4. Developmentally, Culturally, and Linguistically Appropriate Teaching Practices
   • Understand and demonstrate positive, caring, supportive relationships and interactions as the foundation of early childhood educators’ work with young children (NAEYC Standard 4a).
5. Knowledge, Application, and Integration of Academic Content in the Early Childhood Curriculum
   • Understand content knowledge-the central concepts, methods and tools of inquiry, and structure-and resources for the academic disciplines in an early childhood curriculum (NAEYC Standard 5a).
6. Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator
   • Identify and involve themselves with the early childhood field and serve as informed advocates for young children, families, and the profession (NAEYC Standard 6a).
   • Know about and uphold ethical and other early childhood professional guidelines (NAEYC Standard 6b).