Define unstructured activity and provide set standards for time spent per day.
Central Objective: Define unstructured activity and establish clear daily time standards for early childhood education and child care centers. Supporting Elements: Define and provide examples of structured activity, with set daily time allocations to guide educators. Learn practical strategies to balance child-led play with structured learning, ensuring developmentally appropriate schedules for young children.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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2 hours courses
0.2 CEUsRelated Outcomes
- Define and provide examples of structured activity and set standards for time spent per day
- Define sedentary activities, including screen time, and their impact and identify time limits per day
- Define what transition times are and when they occur during the day in the classroom
- Explain the importance of providing a variety of developmentally appropriate activities, including play, to support the science skills of all children.
- Define Cultural Activities in the Montessori early childhood classroom.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Demonstrate understanding of strategies that utilize good time management practices for teachers and child care providers.
- Define what it means to be a coach in the early childhood education setting.
- Recognize the importance of demonstrating respect for all diversity and providing activities that reflect a welcoming environment for all children, youth and families, regardless of culture, language, or religion, or strengths, talents, and abilities.
- Define the role of a Coach for child care providers
- Identify strategies for the child care provider that will promote successful child development.
- Identify best practices in room arrangement for the preschool setting.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the supervision criteria based on the age and activity of the child
- Identify appropriate practices communicable diseases/illnesses and immunizations and their schedules in child care setting
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