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- 1. Child Care Environment Rating Scale for assessment of quality of early learning programs in home care settings.
- 3. childcare - Child care that begins in the morning and goes through the day, often arranged for the hours that parents work.
- 5. Start - The first federally funded, large-scale, comprehensive program for low-income children who are 3, 4, & 5 years old.
- 7. The brain will get rid of unused synapses as it grows and refines itself.
- 10. 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.
- 12. 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.
- 14. - Care for children in a small, homelike setting; usually six or fewer children in a family residence.
- 17. - A concept of teaching as both educating and care giving; coined by Magda Gerber in referring to people working with infants and toddlers.
- 19. plasticity - The brain is constantly adapting and reorganizing as new neurological connections are made and reinforced.
- 20. Intervention - 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.
- 22. 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.
- 23. Start - Federally funded comprehensive program for low-income infants, toddlers, and pregnant women.
- 24. Environment Rating Scale for evaluating quality in early learning settings designed for children from birth to 2+ years of age.
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- 2. group - The 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.
- 4. centers - 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.
- 6. Appropriate Practices - 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. Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale for evaluating quality in early learning settings serving children 2+ through 5 years of age.
- 9. A school or class for children 4-6 years old; in the US, it is the first year of formal, public school.
- 11. school - A school that teaches religious dogma.
- 13. 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.
- 15. Coordinated curriculum between various levels of education as well as between curriculum and learning standards.
- 16. - School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale for measuring quality in group care programs serving children 5 to 12 years of age.
- 18. children back one year or allowing children to repeat one year in school.
- 21. - The practice of keeping a teacher and a group of children in a class together for two or more years.