Assignment2-AS

4. Support programs that provide comprehensive services for children with developmental delays or at risk of them.
6. A learning theory that explains behaviours as the result of children’s habits and experiences in their environment.
10. The early development of the idea of numbers before learning how to calculate.
13. Looking back on actions based on values, beliefs, and knowledge to improve professional practice.
15. The smallest units of sound that distinguish meaning in a language.
17. The ways parents and relatives support their children’s everyday reading and language activities.
19. Play where children test their limits in challenging activities while learning to assess risks such as possible injuries.
23. The process of outsiders trying to establish control and settle on lands in which Indigenous peoples were living.
24. Resources that can be used in multiple ways.
25. An approach that supports educators in continually improving their skills and knowledge for better professional practice.

1. An approach where educators build children’s learning experiences based on children’s interests, questions, and explorations.
2. A way of children’s play, not joining the play but just watching and observing others.
3. Guidelines that use children’s everyday experiences as the basis for curriculum and teaching approaches.
5. A type of play where children role-play with others.
7. Make the most of the observations to understand what children know and to plan next steps in learning.
8. Guidelines that help early child educators make decisions and act with integrity.
9. One of the major child-centred curricula in early childhood education, developed in Italy, that highlights exploration and inquiry.
11. A way of observing behaviour at set intervals of time.
12. The study of how teaching and learning happen in early childhood settings.
14. The way an environment is arranged to promote emotional security and support children’s social well-being.
16. An idea that connects heart, mind, spirit and body with north, south, east and west.
18. A kind of written record scribbling what was observed in a child’s behaviour or interaction.
20. Ways to support and encourage children instead of punishing or rewarding them.
21. A way to try something a bit harder than their skills with others’ help and support.
22. The max number of children permitted per educator.