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- 1. Federally funded program serving low-income pregnant mothers, infants, and toddlers that promotes healthy family functioning.
- 3. NAEYC's voluntary system for identifying high quality early childhood centers and schools serving children from birth through kindergarten.
- 5. Minimum requirements, legally established by each sate for a child care program to operate.
- 9. Federal law governing provision of services for children with disabilities and special needs.
- 10. Observational instrument used to rate program quality on a 7-point scale from inadequate to excellent.
- 13. Federally funded, national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children ages 3, 4, and 5 through providing educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to the nation's poorest children and families.
- 15. coordination of the curriculum from one level of education to the next in order to build on what children have already learned and to ease transitions for students between schools and school levels.
- 16. Features of an early childhood program such as maximum group sizes teacher/child ratios, and teacher qualifications that are relatively easy to quantify and measure.
- 21. Rigorous national standards in English language arts and mathematics for kindergarten through grade 12 developed by the council of chief states officers (CCSSO) and the national governor's association (NGA).
- 23. Services for infants and toddlers who are at risk of developmental delay and their families.
- 24. Educational programs serving 3 and 4 year olds delivered under various sponsorships.
- 26. Preschool program owned, operated, and partially staffed by parents.
- 28. Members of an occupational group that make decisions based on a specialized body of knowledge, continue to learn throughout their careers, and are committed to meeting the needs of others.
- 31. Family income level.
- 32. Independently operated, publicly funded schools that have greater flexibility than regular schools in meeting regulations and achieving goals.
- 33. Federally funded program, more commonly known as welfare to work, that provides temporary financial aid but requires recipients to move into labor force or schooling.
- 34. The quality of the relationships, and interactions among teachers and children and the appropriateness of the materials, learning experiences, and teaching strategies occurring in an early childhood program.
- 35. Group program that provides care and education for young children during the hours that their parents are employed.
- 36. National standards that establish the level of quality of services provided by every head start program.
- 37. The explicit and implicit values, beliefs, rules, and expectations for behavior of members of a group that are passed o n from generation to the next. these rules determine to a large extent what group members regard as important and what values shape their actions and judgment.
- 38. Child care in which caregivers provide care in their own homes for a small group of children, often multi-age groups.
- 39. Highly diverse field that serves children from birth through age 8.
- 40. Participation and services for children with disabilities and special needs in programs and settings where their typically developing peers are served.
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- 2. Curriculum and instructional practices that research has demonstrated improve learning outcomes.
- 4. Describe what children should know and be able to do before entering kindergarten.
- 5. Federal funds allocated to states for low income working families to purchase childcare.
- 6. Typically considered the first year of formal schooling serves 5 and 6 year olds.
- 7. Publicly funded preschool usually 4 year olds but sometimes 3 year olds available to any family that choose to use it.
- 8. Ways of teaching that engage children's interest and adapt for their age experience and ability to help them meet challenging and achievable learning goals.
- 11. Teachers who have a purpose for the decisions they make and can explain that purpose to others.
- 12. Preschool and elementary classroom observational instrument that assesses the quality of teachers relationships and interactions with children and the instructional strategies used to support children's learning.
- 14. The process of holding teachers, schools, or programs responsible for meeting a required level of performance.
- 17. National competence based credential for entry level early childhood educators.
- 18. World's largest organization of early childhood educations, whose mission is to act on behalf of the needs and interests of children from birth through age 8.
- 19. Law governing how the federal government distributes education funds to states and holds public schools accountable for the use of funding.
- 20. Services for children with disabilities or special needs who meet eligibility guidelines that are determined on a state by state basis according to the individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
- 22. First, second, and third grade; sometimes includes kindergarten.
- 25. Children who are learning to speak two languages a the same time usually their home language and English.
- 27. School operated by colleges and universities that usually serves children of students and faculty and also acts as a model of excellent education for student teachers.Prekindergarten Educational program serving 3 and 4 year olds, usually in public schools.
- 29. Children's competencies related to success in kindergarten including physical development, health, as well being; social emotional development and learning, cognitive development and general knowledge such as mathematics and science positive approaches to learning such as curiosity and motivation and language development and early literacy skills.
- 30. State operated systems that evaluate and rate the quality of child care programs according to achievement of benchmarks beyond those required for minimal licensing, such as having more highly qualified teachers or better ratios.