STANDARD #1: Promoting Child Development and Learning Students prepared in early childhood degree programs are grounded in a child development knowledge base. They use their understanding of young children’s characteristics and needs and of the multiple interacting influences on children’s development and learning to create environments that are healthy‚ respectful‚ supportive‚ and challenging for each child. The early years of child development are crucial to the development of all young children
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Physical Development Physical development is the development of the body. It is usually the development within a few weeks either side of the average age of a child under 5 years old. As physical development proceeds‚ the child acquires various physical skills‚ such as motor skills; there are two types of this‚ gross motor skills and fine motor skills. Gross motor skills are large movements‚ such as‚ hop scotch‚ skipping‚ kicking‚ throwing a ball and taking large steps. Fine motor skills are the
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Customized Learning Theory Karen Wilmath EDUC 500 Liberty University The purpose of this paper is to discuss different learning theories and how the years have caused educators and psychologists to evaluate the validity of some of them. Technology alone has caused a major kink in some of the learning theories from earlier psychologists. Although there are multiple learning theories that have been developed over the years‚ not one of them includes all aspects of learning and many have left
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Theories of Development Lacey Thomas Arkansas Tech University Theories of development provide a framework for thinking about human growth‚ development‚ and learning. According to Santrock‚ theory means “an interrelated‚ coherent set of ideas that helps to explain phenomena and facilitate predictions.” (Santrock‚ 2013‚ p.21) Having an understanding of child development is important for implementing developmentally appropriate practices. As educators‚ understanding
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AO1 – Patterns of Development This coursework will describe how children develop according to milestones from birth to eight years old. Activity 1 Emily is 17 years old and lives on the outskirts of Woking. She is currently living with her mum and attends St. John the Baptist Sixth Form College in Old Woking. Emily is a conscientious and hard working individual and her qualifications clearly support this. Having achieved excellent grades at GCSE and AS level‚ Emily is eager to continue with
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My family is the closest thing to me. I know my life can compare to my brothers and sisters. Out of three sisters and two brothers I went with one of my sisters. Her name is Holly she is 21 and we are similar more than any of my brothers and sisters. We have experienced going through pregnancy at a young age‚ family problems and becoming an adult. She got pregnant at the age 16‚ we all were upset with her. She went through a lot with all of us and my mom. We still excepted it and stuck by her
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Unit 1 - Understanding and promoting children and young people’s development Learners Declaration: I certify that the work submitted in this assignment is my own. Student Number..eb1257620 Full Name …Mrs Debbie England Address…..1‚Woodlands Residential Park Quakers Yard‚ Treharris CF46 5AR  L/601/1693 Unit 1 NCFE LEVEL 3 EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE Debbie
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Helpdesk: 815-753-8100 E-mail: lederscheid@niu.edu; Blackboard: http://webcourses.niu.edu n development. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Wadsworth‚ B. J. (2004). Piaget ’s theory of cognitive and affective development (5th ed.). Boston‚ MA: Pearson Education‚ Inc. READINGS: Other assigned readings will be placed on Blackboard e-reserve from the NIU library. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Analysis of the major theories of chilfor syllabus and assignments; computer help email: Helpdesk@niu.edu
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young person’s development. Task B2 (Ref: 2.3) Theories of child development. An understanding of child development is essential; it allows us to fully appreciate the cognitive‚ emotional‚ physical‚ social and educational growth that children go through from birth and into early adulthood. Child development is a multidisciplinary subject; it draws on various academic fields‚ including psychology‚ neuroscience‚ sociology‚ paediatrics‚ biology and genetics. Child development is a non-negotiable
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IDENTIFY WHAT YOU CONSIDER TO BE KEY FEATURES DEVELOPMENT OF INFANTS‚AND EXPLORE THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORIES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT. INTRODUCTION When infants are born they want to be loved and cared in what ever relationships they are with their caregivers‚ so that they could survive and could feel sense of security and warmth ‚ which without a caregiver is impossible ‚talking about caregivers ‚mother would be the primary source of forming an infant’s first relationship by whom the baby
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