ECE 243 - Early Childhood Guidance

1. Child Development and Learning in Context
   • Understand and value each child as an individual with unique developmental variations, experiences, strengths, interests, abilities, challenges, approaches to learning, and with the capacity to make choices (NAEYC Standard 1b).
   • 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).
   • Build assessment partnerships with families and professional colleagues (NAEYC Standard 3d).
4. Developmentally, Culturally, and Linguistically Appropriate Teaching Practices
   • 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
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).