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Title: DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE


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DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE
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FACTORS RELATED TO DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE
PRACTICE (DAP)
  • Three Inter-related factors
  • 1. Child developmental principles
  • 2. Individual needs
  • 3. Consideration of the social and cultural
    context.

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NAEYCS COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN
  • Standards of professional practice in early
    childhood programs are based on commitment to
    certain fundamental values. These include
  • Appreciating childhood as a unique and valuable
    stage of the human life cycle.
  • Basing our work with children on knowledge of
    child development and learning.
  • Respecting the dignity, worth, and uniqueness of
    each individual.

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DAP results from making decisions based upon
three important kinds of information or knowledge
  • 1. What is known about child development and
    learning
  • 2. What is known about the strengths, interests
    and needs of each individual child in the group.
  • 3. Knowledge of the social and cultural contexts
    in which children live.

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Child Developmental Principles
  • Domains of childrens development are closely
    related.
  • Development occurs in a relatively orderly
    sequence.
  • Development proceeds at varying rates from child
    to child as well as unevenly within different
    areas of each childs functioning.
  • Early experiences have both cumulative and
    delayed effects on individual children.
  • Optimal periods exist for certain types of
    development.
  • Development proceeds in predictable directions
    toward greater complexity, organization, and
    internalization.
  • Development occurs in and are influenced by
    multiple social and cultural contexts.

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Child Developmental Principles (continued)
  • Children are active learners.
  • Development and learning result from interaction
    of biological maturation and the environment.
  • Development advances when children have
    opportunities to practice newly acquired skills.
  • Children demonstrate different modes of knowing
    and learning and different ways of showing what
    they know.
  • Children develop and learn best in the context of
    a community where they are safe and valued.
  • Play is an important vehicle for childrens
    social emotional, and cognitive development, as
    well as a reflection of their development.

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Guidelines that address five interrelated
dimensions of practice
  • 1. Creating a caring community of learners.
  • 2. Teaching to enhance development and learning.
  • 3. Constructing appropriate curriculum.
  • 4. Assessing childrens learning and
    development.
  • 5. Establishing reciprocal relationships.

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RELATING THE THEORIES TO DAP
  • Development occurs in a relatively orderly
    sequence, with later abilities, skills, and
    knowledge building on those already acquired.
  •  
  • a. Erikson, Epigenetic Principle - One stage is
    built upon another and each must be integrated
    into the whole.
  • b. Piaget - Intellectual development is a
    continual process of organization and
    reorganization of structures, each new
    organization integrating the previous one into
    itself.
  • c. Vygotsky - While playing, a child is always
    behavinga head above himself.
  • d. Vygotsky - play demands self-regulatory
    behaviors.

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Examples of DAP
  • In the following movie, identify examples of
    Developmentally Appropriate Practices. (Refer to
    your assignment.)

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Identify Developmentally Appropriate Practices.
  • Such as, to develop self-confidence children are
    involved in meaningful tasks in which they can
    succeed.
  • (Click on the screen to begin movie)
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