In the study of Child Development, physical growth is a complex process which entails learning about children's bodily movements and abilities. More specifically, gross motor skills are a type of physical abilities in which large muscle movements are exercised by young children during the early years of life. This is glimpse of what typical physical abilities children possess between ages 3 to 5.

This module is designed for pre-service teachers in the undergraduate PreK- 4 Early Childhood Education major. The material in the unit will familiarize the future teacher to develop lesson plans and units in both the direct and indirect teaching models. Wonder Spaces, using the Reggio-inspired philosophy, is introduced to design spaces for learners ages 0 - 5. Classroom management is also included. 

A web-based textbook/course created by Lumen Learning. Part 1 concerns Educational History and Policy, covering common educational policies from 1770's to the present; Part 2 is Educational Psychology, covering topics such as human brain, language and physical development, Nature v. Nurture, and theories and practices for working with K-12 youth.

Esta introducción fue modificada desde el principio de la publicación Family Partnerships and Culture (Asociaciones familiares y culturales en español), por el Departamento de Educación de California y utilizando la declaración de posición de Avanzando en equidad en la educación en la primera infancia, de la Asociación Nacional para la Educación de Niños Pequeños. Estas sabias palabras enmarcan el propósito de este libro y el curso para el que se está utilizando, los cuales solo son el comienzo del viaje.

Aunque la mayoría de las familias utilizan algún tipo de cuidado fuera del hogar, los niños menores de cinco años continúan pasando la mayor parte de su primera infancia en el entorno familiar. En consecuencia, las familias continúan desempeñando un papel especialmente importante en la formación del curso del desarrollo temprano de los niños. Por esta razón, las familias son miembros invaluables en los programas para la primera infancia.

Guiadas por creencias y principios culturales, las familias seleccionan experiencias, transmiten actitudes e imparten conocimiento a sus hijos para prepararlos para la edad adulta. Por esto, es importante que el personal del programa aprenda a colaborar eficazmente con las familias. Para desarrollar una colaboración y aprovechar la familia como recurso principal, los educadores de la primera infancia deben acercarse, aprender y desarrollar colaboraciones sólidas con las familias. Este proceso requiere tener una actitud receptiva al aprendizaje y hacer un esfuerzo por comprender la individualidad de cada familia y la diversidad de las familias de donde provienen los niños.

This video covers chapter 1 of the college textbook that goes over Child Growth and Development.

This presents how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.

This is an adaptation from a free CC by Attribution college textbook, "Child Growth and Development"

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Family Child Care Provider's perceptions of quality of training. Providers were interviewed said that trainings help them achieve some mastery experience of content and how to teach, but there was not sufficienttly hands-on activities or continues coaching to develop full mastery.

Family members are the most important people in young children’s lives. This course will help you view families as a system, implement family-centered practice, and build positive relationships with families. You will learn appropriate ways to share and collect information with and from families. Supporting families of children with special needs, military families, and families facing other challenges will also be addressed.

Explore how understanding the cultural perspectives of families can positively impact relationship-building and family engagement efforts. Use this resource to review the following:
- Family Engagement and Relationship-building
- Perspective-taking
- Strengths-based Attitudes
- Reflective Practice Opportunities
- Practice Scenario: Aisha’s Family
- Additional Resources and References
This guide is intended for professionals in the early childhood field. Individuals, groups of staff, and supervisors can use this tool as part of training and reflective practice and supervision.

This resource originated from a training workshop in Domestic Violence Prevention and Awareness, to educate the community resource pesonnel of awareness of family strengths, often overlooked in times of crisis or need, when access to resources can upset the balance of family life.This discussion exercise used in the Family Relationships course (FAMLF131) serves as a means of sharing perspective to raise one's awareness and be open to critical thinking thought processes, especially to enhace the pathways of students pursuing the Social Sciences, Child Development, and Teaching and Nursing professions, to name a few.

Utilizing a culturally responsive lens, this course focuses on strategies for developing family and community partnerships to benefit young children ages birth-5th grade of all abilities. Theories and research that support family-centered practices are explored with a focus on highlighting BIPoC authors and researchers. This course takes a family-centered perspective and emphasizes the role of collaborative planning with families and caregivers to create an inclusive environment.

This course is designed as a six week asynchronous online course. The weekly video supports students by providing the flexibility to stop and start the video. This can be a supportive tool for students who might not have uninterrupted time to absorb content. The paired slides also provide a visual support which aids various types of learning styles. The Reading Evidence assignment is student centered which allows each student to explore and identify a system that works best for them. Which supports the modeling of a Universal Design for Learning strategy that students can utilize in their own setting. Lastly, the learning activities are designed to be "field ready" tools that allow students to utilize their classwork as tangible real world tools for family and community partnerships.

This week in your reading, you were introduced to many of the pioneering theorists who have helped develop Early Childhood Education into what it is today. For this assignment, please create a a few slides (either PowerPoint or Google slide will work) of your favorite theorist in Child Development, either one you read about today or someone else you know about from other classes.You will do this with your group. Make sure you and your group communicate this week and begin to think about what theorist you will focus on. Once you have agreed on a theorist begin researching individually and come to class prepared so you can begin designing your slides as a group in-person. When slides are completed, have 1 person from your group upload the slides here!Slide Requirements:1. Tell us who they are.2. Why they are your favorite3. One thing you wish you could ask them. 

This is a textbook to accompany a fieldwork course in early childhood education.

This is the first edition of a textbook created and edited as part of an education course, ESSE 474/574, at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. The book's primary contributors have been graduate and undergraduate, preservice and present teachers.

Our goals for this project are manifold, but we would like to take a minute to highlight some of those that we consider most important. First, we want to prove that a student-authored textbook can be of a quality equal to that of a traditional textbook. After all, it seems counter-intuitive to imagine that students could learn from a textbook that is too sophisticated for them to have written themselves. Furthermore, this text should serve as proof that, due to the vast availability of information via the Internet, traditional textbooks written by intellectual elites are no longer necessary to the same degree they were before the Information Age. Next, the process of creating this text will serve to empower preservice teachers with knowledge of technology and other skills such as effective communication and self-/peer-editing that will serve them well when they enter the classroom later, as teachers.

If you have stumbled onto this book by mistake, we encourage you to take a few minutes and read a chapter or two. After reading, feel free to click the blue rating buttons at the bottom of each page. This will help us identify the highest- and lowest-quality sections.

Each section of each chapter of this book was researched and developed by three students individually; thus, there are three articles that correspond to each section of each chapter. The students rated their peers articles to determine which was most useful. Those articles voted most useful can be found in each chapter's main page. Those articles which were not selected as most useful contain some very good information, and you may find them in the sections labeled "Supplemental Materials."

Bartik shows that investment in high-quality early childhood education has several long-term benefits, including higher adult earnings for program participants.

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This NSCC created open textbook provides an overview of the historical, societal, and theoretical origins of early childhood education with Nova Scotia specific content.

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ISBN: 978-1-990641-52-7

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Multicultural education for young children

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The Guide to Assessment in Early Childhood is intended for primary use by those professionals in positions of program-level responsibility for developing comprehensive assessment plans, and selecting and administering assessment instruments. The document also can serve as a resource for designing professional development activities for program administrators and direct service staff responsible for gathering and interpreting assessment information.

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo determinar el nivel de relación entre las habilidades perceptivas y el aprendizaje de la matemática de los niños y las niñas de 5 años de una Institución Educativa de Huancavelica, en la educación remota. El diseño empleado fue el correlacional y la muestra lo conformaron 46 estudiantes de 5 años de una institución de educación inicial de Huancavelica. Los instrumentos empleados fueron, la lista de cotejo para cada variable con 30 ítems. Los resultados evidencian que existe relación estadísticamente significativa entre las habilidades perceptivas y el aprendizaje de la matemática en los estudiantes de 5 años de una institución educativa de Huancavelica, en la educación remota. Estos resultados cuantitativos, con un r=0.75, representan una correlación positiva moderada, según el cuadro de índices de correlación de Hernández, Fernández y Baptista (2018)