Word Count 95‚ 124‚ 144‚ 126= 489 Competency Goal II To Advance physical and intellectual competence 4. Physical I am competent in the area of physical activity. My goal is to get every child moving every day. To accomplish my goal I observe each child’s physical capabilities and limitations. I create a purposeful physical activity that is fun and challenging to develop fine and gross motor skills. Physical development is important to a child’s cognitive development. I put a fine and gross motor
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safe‚ healthy learning environment. 2. To advance physical and intellectual competence. 3. To support social and emotional development and to provide positive guidance. 4. To establish positive and productive relationships with families. 5. To ensure a well-run‚ purposeful program responsive to participant needs. 6. To maintain a commitment to professionalism. Competency Goal I To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy
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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD The Sensorimotor Stage Piaget based the sensorimotor stage on his observations of his own children The Circular Reaction: a. Circular reactions are the means by which infants explore the environment and build schemes by trying to repeat chance events caused by their own motor activity. b. These reactions are first centered on the infant’s own body. Subsequently‚ they change to manipulating objects and then to producing novel effects in the environment
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Competency Goal 2 Functional Area 4: Physical I promote physical activities in my classroom daily. We do music and movement different songs like Pirate Ship‚ Bear Hunt and the Dancing Machine. All provide a wide range of movement to promote physical health. During outdoor play children are given opportunities ‚ to play with balls‚ climbing up and down the stairs to the slide‚ hopping‚ skipping‚ jumping and balancing on a rail. Children need opportunities to develop their body strength. Pulling
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Competency Goal II To advance physical and intellectual competence To advance physical and intellectual competence I provide various amounts of equipment and activities that help promote the physical development of children. I do this by offering activities that will allow children to use their small muscles and large muscles. Children need these types of activities so they can become familiar about how to use their muscles and to develop body strength. Activities such as throwing things‚ rolling
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personal existence" (Ayers‚ 1989‚ p. 28). Based on your reading of Chapters 2 and 3 of The Good Preschool Teacher‚ describe two goals of a quality infant/toddler care and education program and two ways caregivers/teachers can help reach such goals. Two goals of quality care programs and reaching those goals include: Ensuring cultural congruency & ensuring that professionals possess appropriate knowledge. Reaching these goals include ensuring that each student’s culture remains rooted to their learning
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 Competency Goal 2 - Physical & Intellectual Competence:  Bridget - CheekyMommaof2‚ Yahoo! Contributor NetworkJun 9‚ 2009 "Contribute content like this. Start Here." More: Competence Intellectual Competency Manipulatives Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Print Flag Close 14 Helpful? Post a comment To advance physical and intellectual competence...It is essential to the growth and development of every child to advance their physical and intellectual needs. There are numerous
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Assessing Infants and Toddlers Nichole Spiller ECE 354: Assessment & Intervention during Early Childhood Instructor: Robin Skeen Monday‚ October 1‚ 2012 Assessing Infants and Toddlers Assessing infants and toddlers is commonly used to determine if children are meeting their developmental milestones or if they are showing any signs of developmental delays or disabilities. Many types of standardized tests are available for use with infants and young children; all are psychological
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Within this paper 6 scholarly research articles focusing on infant and/or toddler development will be discussed. These articles will cover physical‚ cognitive‚ and social or psychosocial development. A 30 minute observation of a 1month old (Willow) and a 13month old (Emmett) will be conversed‚ with particular focus on physical development including body shape and motor skills‚ cognitive development‚ and social development. The information obtained in the observations will be compared to the information
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where children are used to their parents doing everything for them and my job is to widen that gap so they feel good about doing things for themselves. For my children with special needs these goals do not change‚ although they may need a little more encouragement and time. Cognitive To promote cognitive development‚ I will provide activities and materials to develop children’s curiosity‚ problem solving and reasoning skills. I will provide a time in our daily schedule for exploring our manipulative
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