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UnderstandingtheDefiningNAEYCandStandards.pptxUnderstanding the Defining NAEYC and Standards
Dr. Teresa Banks
Practicum Experience
For today:
Code of Ethics activity
Review NAEYC Standards to identify artifacts
Four year old standards and developing activity plans
What is NAEYC?
National Association for the Education of Young Children.
NAEYC is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children. Particular focus is on the quality of educational and developmental services.
NAEYC’s Mission
To promote high quality, developmentally appropriate programs that support the physical, social, emotional and cognitive development for all children while responding to the needs of their families.
Standards Purpose
NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs represents a sustained vision for the early childhood field and more specifically for the programs that prepare the professionals working in the field.
Standards Purpose
The standards are designed for use in a variety of ways by different sectors of the field while also supporting specific and critical policy structures, including state and national early childhood teacher credentialing, national accreditation of professional early childhood preparation programs, state approval of early childhood teacher education programs, and articulation agreements between various levels and types of professional development programs.
What the Standards do?
These standards offer practitioners a framework for applying new knowledge to critical issues. They support important early learning goals across settings serving children from birth through age 8. They support critical early childhood policy structures including professional credentialing, accreditation of professional preparation programs, state approval of teacher education programs, and state professional development systems.
NAEYC Standards
1. Promoting Child Development and Learning
1a: Knowing and understanding young children’s characteristics and needs
1b: Knowing and understanding the multiple influences on development and learning
1c: Using developmental knowledge to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and challenging learning environments
Standard 2. Building Family and Community Relationships
2a: Knowing about and understanding diverse family and community characteristics
2b: Supporting and engaging families and communities through respectful, reciprocal relationships
2c: Involving families and communities in their children’s development and learning
NAEYC Standards
Standard 3. Observing, Documenting, and Assessing to Support Young Children and Families
3a: Understanding the goals, benefits, and uses of assessment
3b: Knowing about and using observation, documentation, and other appropriate assessment tools and approaches
3c: Understanding and practicing responsible assessment to promote positive outcomes for each child
3d: Knowing about assessment partnerships with families and with professional colleagues
Standard 4. Using Developmentally Effective Approaches to Connect with Children and Families
4a: Understanding positive relationships and supportive interactions as the foundation of their work with children
4b: Knowing and understanding effective strategies and tools for early education
4c: Using a broad repertoire of developmentally appropriate teaching/learning approaches
4d: Reflecting on their own practice to promote positive outcomes for each child
NAEYC Standards
Standard 5. Using Content Knowledge to Build Meaningful Curriculum
5a: Understanding content knowledge and resources in academic disciplines
5b: Knowing and using the central concepts, inquiry tools, and structures of content areas or academic disciplines
5c: Using their own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curricula for each child
Standard 6. Becoming a Professional
6a: Identifying and involving oneself with the early childhood field
6b: Knowing about and upholding ethical standards and other professional guidelines
6c: Engaging in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice
6d: Integrating knowledgeable, reflective, and critical perspectives on early education
6e: Engaging in informed advocacy for children and the profession
Considerable artifacts for each standard
Standard 1
Power point on a theory with reflections
NEAYC position statement
NAEYC Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Materials for promoting development in children( could include a brochure on healthy eating and/or growth and learning).
Standard 2 Artifacts
Letter to child development center (could included field trip letter)
Family, community project (maybe found posted in libraries, schools or online)
Family interview
ISFP or IEP
Resource file for families( family math night or science night)
Standard 3 Artifacts
Authentic vs standardized assessments (journal article)
Articles on curriculum in early childhood settings
Observations of groups or individual child
Conferences
child assessment
displays
Standard 4 Artifacts
Lesson Plans
Reflections from reading a story to a child or children
Teaching skills and strategies
Standard 5 Artifacts
Articles on play-play observation
Room arrangement
Websites
Curriculum plans
Curriculum assessments
Standard 6 Artifacts
Philosophy statements
Group presentations with peer evaluations
NAEYC Code paper
Observation hours
References and resources
NAEYC standards documents are available for view or download at http://www.naeyc.org/ecada/standards
NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation, 2009
