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- 1. Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale for assessment of quality of early learning programs in home care settings
- 5. Practices that are suitable or fitting to the development of the child and are relevant and respectful to the social and cultural aspects of children and friends
- 8. Curriculum that helps children understand the way individual histories, families of origins, and ethnic family cultures make us similar and yet different from others
- 10. Keeping children back one year or allowing children to repeat one year in school
- 16. brain will get rid of unused synapses as it grows and refines itself
- 17. school or class for children 4-6 years old; in the US, it is the first year of formal, public school
- 19. 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
- 20. Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale for evaluating quality in early learning settings serving children 2+ through 5 years of age
- 22. practice of keeping a teacher and a group of children in a class together for two or more years.
- 23. 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
- 24. concept of teaching as both educating and care giving; coined by Magda Gerber in referring to people working with infants and toddlers
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- 2. 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
- 3. Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale for evaluating quality in early learning settings designed for children from birth to 2+ years of age
- 4. School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale for measuring quality in group care programs serving children 5 to 12 years of age
- 6. Federally funded comprehensive program for low-income infants, toddlers, and pregnant women
- 7. practice of placing children of several levels, generally one year apart, into the same classroom. Also referred to as family grouping, heterogeneous groups, multiage grouping, vertical grouping, and ungraded classes
- 9. 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
- 11. first federally funded, large-scale, comprehensive program for low-income children who are 3, 4, & 5 years old
- 12. 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
- 13. school that teaches religious dogma
- 14. Child care that begins in the morning and goes through the day, often arranged for the hours that parents work
- 15. Care for children in a small, homelike setting; usually six or fewer children in a family residence
- 18. Coordinated curriculum between various levels of education as well as between curriculum and learning standards
- 21. brain is constantly adapting and reorganizing as new neurological connections are made and reinforced