Child Development Portfolio Assignment
1. What are your beliefs about child growth and development?
Some of the fundamental beliefs in child growth and development include:
Children have a right to a quality childhood which include an environment that value differences
around families, their backgrounds and use them to support individual and community learning;
foster development where children can explore and initiate their LearningLearning, and surrounds
children with caring adults who foster self-confidence, appropriate decision-making, and social
and emotional development. Communities require a robust system of early childhood programs in
which everyone shares responsibility/role for all children's well-being (social, mental, physical,
and intellectual); believes that loving care, health, and education of young children are inextricably
linked; and believes that evaluation includes numerous sources of data and sees everyone as a
learner and instructor.
2. How do we combine learning with developmentally appropriate practice?
As a teacher, one of the most important jobs is establishing environments where all students can
learn. It is necessary to ensure that students can: 1) physically and cognitively access the materials
that they will need; 2) remain motivated to ask questions and pursue deeper LearningLearning; 3)
move comfortably around the classroom and to other areas in the school; 4) stay emotionally
present and safe throughout the school day. The first step to creating a developmentally appropriate
learning environment is understanding development. Culture can play a substantial role in
diversifying products. To be a culturally competent educator or one who responds to the needs of
a diverse set of learners, we also need to think about the ways students from a variety of homes
might access an environment and the materials in it.
3. How would you individualize the program to meet the needs of each child?
Teaching is an endeavor that aims to pass on the information and spike interest in a subject, and
connect to the learners. In line with this perspective, instructional communication is (or must be)
transactional. Teaching must be a give-and-take process. In creating an environment supportive of
LearningLearning, there must be equal attention to the teacher's skills and students' disposition.
Before the actual instruction takes place, there must be an assessment of the students. Mike Neer
(2017), a curriculum researcher and author at Data works Educational Research, described
Learning centered education as having the following essential characteristics: (1) Focus is on how
students are learning (2) Focus is on learning how to use knowledge in different ways (3) Students
and teacher regularly interact with each other and the information (4) Classroom alternates
between quiet and conversations, and lastly, (5) Desired Learning is assessed while teaching
(CFUs) and through both tests and papers/projects
4. How would your program reflect the belief in the whole child? (Physical, Social/emotional,
cognitive, language, creative)
Early childhood programs stereotypically objective is to increase the academic and public
capabilities of children. Academic and public capabilities are the foundation for a child's
successive growth. These developments' primary purpose is to offer children an advantageous
jump at school and avoid adversative changes such as school fiasco, grade withholding, or distinct
education needs. Subsequently, early development of straightforward proficiencies is presumed to
have the probability of marking a child's achievement; early education and care intercessions try
to substitute these proficiencies by providing an atmosphere that inspires valuable progress.
Having multiple literacy sources available all around the classroom can help a child develop
different literacy skills. Recreating art they find in a book, keeping a daily journal, practice the
form of letters, learning how to look up words and services in a phone book, and even viewing
magazines that spark their creative minds. Looking at
books can open a new world for children
5. Which development theory/theories are evident in the program?
I will apply Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory in Childcare Workers: As childcare
workers, it is also part of their job to know whether a child is developing appropriately for their
age or not. This theory emphasizes the further mental development in children as they move from
one stage to another. It starts from the sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years), preoperational stage
(ages 2 to 7), concrete operational stage (ages 7 to 11), and ends with the formal active setting
(ages 12 and up). Childcare workers play an essential role in this process because they appear to
be the second parents somehow, who look after the children and help them explore their
environments. In the sensorimotor stage, those workers who handle toddlers must know the
developmental changes and characteristics a child must possess. In the preoperational background,
childcare workers must note the improvement in mental function a child must acquire. In the
concrete operational stage. The children must learn how to think logically and begin to understand
the concept of conservation. The childcare workers can apply activities that allow these children
to learn quantity and numbers about an object or a specific process.
6. How does the role of the teacher incorporate the program's values?
Teacher’s expectations facilitate the learning setting to be realizable. Expectations help to meet
the targets set by the teacher for the students. The expectations in the learning environment ought
to be:
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Acknowledge and maintain competency in the program presentation.
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Maintain individual and group support of the students.
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Encourage interactive group learning.
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Conduct assessments as often as possible.
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Maintain cordial relationships with the school and family community.
Teaching and LearningLearning face significant challenges, and these challenges can help in
the learning process.
The classroom is made of children from different cultural backgrounds; to attain their goals are
the challenges that face the teacher. The challenges could be:
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Knowing the children well
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Understanding their differences in Learning (abilities and inabilities)
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A better way to motivate and encourage their little or non-performances.
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Establishing a solid and effective means of communication among the learners by plugging
out the indifference-barrier
7. How are families/ parents encouraged to participate in their child's education?
Families are recognized as their children's most important teachers. They are supported by
responsive, respectful, reciprocal partnerships with professionals and ongoing opportunities to do
a variety of things, such as sharing information about their children's LearningLearning and needs;
actively participating in the development of learning opportunities for children; and continuing to
learn about child development and strategies to support them. While educators may feel frustrated
that they can't get their message across to parents, parents may be just as frustrated that they can't
communicate easily with the school and their child's teacher. Like your other parents, however,
parents want to know what's happening with their child. Two critical pieces of this puzzle include:
8. How would you describe an optimal early educational classroom environment?
I can best characterize the learning environment at school in the following few points that both the
management and instruction in the class are done from the wise of the pupils who are the learners.
Everything done in the classroom is done with the focus on the learner. As such, the ultimate goal
for LearningLearning is for the learner. However, I characterize the learning environment in my
classroom as a classroom where I was a teacher has the learning success of my pupils at heart. I
focus on the best way of teaching that accommodates all my pupils, individually and collectively.
9. Provide two teaching techniques that promote social competency.
Gamification: Teaching techniques Learning through games is a method that has already been
explored by some teachers, especially in elementary and preschool education. By using games,
students learn without even realizing it. Therefore, learning through play or ‘Gamification’s a
learning technique that can be very effective at any age. It is also a beneficial technique to keep
students motivated.
Free Online Learning Tools: There is an array of free online learning tools available which teachers
can use to encourage engagement, participation, and a sense of fun in the classroom. Teachers can
create an interactive and dynamic classroom environment using, for example, online quizzes to
test student’s knowledge.
10. Explain how play in early childhood education promotes development (address each domain;
social, emotional, physical, and cognitive).
When children are provided with a large gross motor play area, they can use the site to stretch,
kick, run, jump and do other activities. This gives children room to explore and get creative by
thinking of new challenges to test skills they learn physically. They could race from one end of the
playground and then add challenging obstacles like crawling and jumping on one leg to the end.
Also, children can learn how to advance themselves by just exploring what they are capable of
doing.
Play gives children ample gross motor which helps in physical development by giving them the
room to explore what they can do physically. Helping a child learn the different activities that use
multiple muscles will help them be more aware of the importance of fitness and staying active in
life.
Early childhood programs stereotypically objective is to increase the academic and public
capabilities of children. Academic and public capabilities are the foundation for a child's
successive growth. These developments’ primary purpose is to offer children an advantageous
jump at school and avoid adversative changes such as school fiasco, grade withholding, or distinct
education needs. Additionally, the programs generally attempt to create the equivalence of
informative chances for children from diverse societal upbringings since children rising in
atmospheres with little to no cognitive encouragement do not consume the equal opportunity to
progress their capabilities as children from more fortunate families, apart from the universal
properties of early education and child care on cognitive development.
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