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Explain The Key Components Of Developmentally Appropriate Practice For Young Children

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The key components for Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) for young children are child age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and cultural/social appropriateness. The teacher needs to be aware of developmental milestones and use this knowledge to determine the age appropriateness of learning strategies, environments, lessons, and activities based on this knowledge. As all children develop at different rates and have their own personality, preferences, individual knowledge requires not only that the teacher use observational and various assessments to plan instruction for a particular child, but also build a safe and trusting relationship with them to have a stronger understanding of that child’s personal goals, ideas, needs, …show more content…

Participants should have clear, shared goals that are evidence-based and comprehensive in addressing language, motor, cognitive, creative, social, and emotional needs of the child. With a consistent approach to curriculum, the daily schedule should be based on consistent and predictable routines to create a safe and nurturing environment, taking these guidelines into account. The majority of activities throughout the day should emphasize learning through play while enhancing learning and development of the child through creating lessons and activities that are developmentally appropriate and students are actively engaged. Teachers should be consistently assessing individual growth and development, based on prior knowledge and skill base, to provide lessons and activities that are engaging, developmentally appropriate, and yet are challenging enough to help foster growth based on prior mastery. An intentional and continued assessment of learning and development, including the prerequisite skills needed to foster new learning, should be built into the daily schedule during both teacher directed lessons and child directed

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