ECE 158 - Early Childhood Curriculum I

1. Child Development and Learning in Context
   • 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
   • 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
   • Understand that assessments (formal and informal, formative and summative) are conducted to make informed choices about instruction and for planning in early learning settings (NAEYC Standard 3a).
   • 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 use teaching skills that are responsive to the learning trajectories of young children and to the needs of each child, recognizing that differentiating instruction, incorporating play as a core teaching practice, and supporting the development of executive function skills critical for young children (NAEYC Standard 4b).
   • Use a broad repertoire of developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically relevant, anti-bias, evidence-based teaching skills and strategies that reflect the principles of universal design for learning (NAEYC Standard 4c).
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).
   • Understand pedagogical content knowledge-how young children learn in each discipline-and how to use the teacher knowledge and practices described in Standards 1 through 4 to support young children’s learning in each content area (NAEYC Standard 5b).
   • Modify teaching practices by applying, expanding, integrating, and updating their content knowledge in the disciplines, their knowledge of curriculum content resources, and their pedagogical content knowledge (NAEYC Standard 5c).
6. Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator
   • Know about and uphold ethical and other early childhood professional guidelines (NAEYC Standard 6b).
   • Develop and sustain the habit of reflective and intentional practice in their daily work with young children and as members of the early childhood profession (NAEYC Standard 6e).