Define SMART goals and describe its historical context.
Learn about SMART goals and its historical context, and discover how differentiated instruction is implemented in early childhood education classrooms. Explore the importance of setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound objectives, while understanding how tailored instruction can benefit young learners. Find valuable insights for early childhood education and child care centers.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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- List strategies to implement SMART goals.
- Demonstrate understanding of how to write effect SMART Goals.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the historical context of the Montessori method
- Explain the historical context of emergent curriculum from its origins in the Reggio Emilia approach.
- Define Peace Education in the context of Montessori philosophy.
- Define differentiated instruction in early childhood education and describe how it may look in the classroom.
- Describe the rights of children and families and their relation to home visiting.
- Define the meaning of professionalism in child care.
- Describe ways to analyze classrooms for an anti-bias approach.
- Describe how language is one of the many ways through which culture affects development.
- Describe the importance of monitoring the family child care environment for potential risks.
- Describe strategies to incorporate mathematics into teaching practices.
- Define what transition times are and when they occur during the day in the classroom
- Describe Piaget’s sensorimotor and preoperational stages of cognitive development.
- Describe the primary learning centers and their components.
- Describe common myths and misconceptions about time management in child care.
- Define culture and cultural sensitivity
- Demonstrate understanding of using assessment and observation for short and long term goal development for special needs
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