Across
- 1. Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale for evaluating quality in early learning settings designed for children from birth to 2+ years of age.
- 4. Family Child Care: Care for children in a small, homelike setting; usually six or fewer children in a family residence.
- 6. Culturally appropriate practices: Curriculum that helps children understand the way individual histories, families of origins, and ethnic family cultures make us similar and yet different from others.
- 8. The first federally funded, large-scale, comprehensive program for low-income children who are 3, 4, & 5 years old.
- 10. Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale for assessment of quality of early learning programs in home care settings.
- 13. Child-care Center: A place for care of children for a large portion of their waking day; includes basic catering activities of eating, dressing, resting, and toiling, as well as playing and learning time
- 15. Keeping children back one year or allowing children to repeat one year in school.
- 17. Traditional nursery school school/preschool: The core of early childhood educational theory and practice; program designed for children aged two-and-a-half to five years of age, which may be a part- or an all-day program.
- 18. Mixed-age group: The practice of placing children of several levels
- 19. The brain will get rid of unused synapses as it grows and refines itself.
- 21. A federally funded program for children who are at risk or developmentally delayed; includes comprehensive services, multidisciplinary approach; and an Individualized Plan is created for each child's educational path.
- 24. employer Sponsored Child Care - Offered on or near a job site, is an employee benefit options for parents; may also be available as a voucher for any child care arrangement.
Down
- 2. School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale for measuring quality in group care programs serving children 5 to 12 years of age.
- 3. Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale for evaluating quality in early learning settings serving children 2+ through 5 years of age.
- 5. full-day child care: Child care that begins in the morning and goes through the day, often arranged for the hours that parents work.
- 7. The brain is constantly adapting and reorganizing as new neurological connections are made and reinforced.
- 9. A concept of teaching as both educating and care giving; coined by Magda Gerber in referring to people working with infants and toddlers.
- 11. Faith-based school: A school that teaches religious dogma
- 12. Three core components of DAP - What is known about child development and learning, what is known about each individual child, and knowledge of the social and cultural contexts in which children live.
- 14. Coordinated curriculum between various levels of education as well as between curriculum and learning standards.
- 16. Developmentally Appropriate Practices: Practices that are suitable or fitting to the development of the child
- 20. children 4-6 years old
- 22. The practice of keeping a teacher and a group of children in a class together for two or more years.
- 23. Early Head Start: Federally funded comprehensive program for low-income infants, toddlers, and pregnant women.