Child Development Center Philosophy

Child Advocacy Center development has been closely related to the approaches we have been introduced to in this course. Creating protocols for community impact, sustainability and growth have all occurred as this Child Advocacy has developed in my community. In my work it is very important to keep the families and victims we serve at the forefront of our decision making. Each policy, program and renovation is made with how it will impact the families we serve over how it will benefit us. Our program has followed the Principles of Good Practice at times and failed to follow them also. Each program/project has a little of this I believe. In this paper, I will go through each principle and identify how the CAC program has met the standard or identify

The preschool years which are the ages between 2 ½ years to five years old is an exciting time for children. It is during this time that they use all of the development learned during the infant and toddler stage to actively explore and engage in school. Preschoolers learn how to make their own choices, develop socially, and explore their environments. Parents and caregivers still play an important role in helping children during this time take initiative and explore their environments. Adult’s behaviors, attitudes, and styles of thinking contribute to preschooler’s

According to Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development, it should be in sensorimotor and preoperational stages. At sensorimotor stage, infants will from reflexive to goal directed behavior. The limitation of this stage is object permanence. At preoperational stage, children begin to think or imagine something in their mind, they will gain two cognitive accomplishments, mental representations and intuitive thought. Mental representations mean children can mentally represent something in the past or future but not now. Intuitive thought means children are self-centered, and they trust others have the same idea as their own. There are three limitations at this stage, first is egocentrism. It means children cannot think something from other’s perspective. Second is lack of conservation, it means if you change the its shape or appearance of something, its weight still the same, but children cannot understand that. Last one is lack of hierarchical classification, it is very hard for children to distinguish similar objects. Little People Musical Preschool has more than 35 sounds of music and phrases to motivate children. It is helpful because they will have a higher interest in language, it is good for mental representations during age 2 to 7 years old. Also, children can gain knowledge through this virtual toy world, in this little world, children may think toys have the same ideas with him, it can exercise their imagination. Also, caregiver can give children some situation to let children use these toys to make up a

All through each of the four stages of development, children should be provided with the appropriate activities and toys, while taking into consideration the stage in question. At the sensorimotor stage, children are beginning to understand the world that surrounds them through their senses. Some of the best toys used at this stage are small squeezable toys, especially those which create a noise or light up. While the child will first be startled when touching the toy produces a sound or a light, he will eventually realize he is the one who are creating the noise or light. During the preoperational stage, children must be encouraged by parents and other adults to participate in hands on activities or games, such as cut off letters to create

The babies information processing, language development, reasoning, intelligence and memory is known as cognitive developmental which was developed throughout the film. For example, during the film Mari played with two toys where she was capable of fitting a ring into a stick and afterwhile she realized that, the ring would fit into stick if she place the stick in the hole of the ring. This shows tertiary circular reactions where she explored the object by acting on them and learning how it actually worked. Mari and Hattie are from big industrialized cities like Tokyo and San Francisco, where they have a lot of objects to play with, such as toys, while Bayar and Ponijao were playing with

Preschools offer a variety of services including social skills, health, nutrition, and aids in developing basic cognitive skills for toddlers up to the age of four years. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), advocates excellence in early childhood education. According to the NAEYC, extensive research has proven that “a high quality developmentally appropriate early childhood programs produce short-and-long term positive effects on children’s cognitive and social development.”

At the beginning of my third observation at the Child Development Center, I decided to observe a three-year-old girl that I will call Cady. I chose her because of her irrepressible attitude, which shown through in all of her actions and loudly voiced opinions. Throughout the semester not only did I gain developmental information about Cady, I gained some background information as well. She is the youngest child in the CDC, having only turned three during the last semester. Not only is she the youngest child at the CDC, she is the youngest of five children at home.

The Department of Navy offers different Child & Youth Programs (CYP) for children ages six weeks to 18 years. The specific CYP program that will be discussed in this paper is the Child Development Center (CDC), located at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland. Within the different Child & Youth Programs, the CDC at Patuxent River provides care for children six weeks to five years of age. There are consistent philosophy, goals, and objectives for all Child Development Centers. The philosophy of the Patuxent River Navy CYP Child Development Center states:

It has been an extraordinary privilege to be able to observe children at the Child Development Center (CDC). While observing I was able to make meaningful connections between the children’s behavior and the concepts, theories, and material covered in class. Upon entering the CDC, I was pleased to find that the booth was in a central location in regards to the classroom so that I could truly observe all aspects of the children’s interactions and behaviors. There was one main teacher three staff member active engaging and assisting in the classroom. The CDC was filled with ample amenities to entertain the youngsters including a play house, slide, small tables throughout the room containing different activities, colorful posters, and many more!All

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In an article written on Edutopia about the national preschool debate, kindergarten teacher Steve Malton states that children understand carpet time, clean up procedures, and how to share, and preschool has a huge impact on that. (Lester, 2007). Routine is important because if a large portion of their brain is wondering or worried about what they are going to do next, there is less room to spend on actual learning. Educators and development researchers aren’t the only one sure of the importance of preschool. Economist at the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate, James Heckman, not only notes that the long term impact of early education on socioemotional development may be the most important takeaway from preschool, but he also asserts that preschool is the time to teach children the ‘soft’ skills such as focusing on a task, keeping an open mind, and controlling their tempers (Grindal & Heckman, 2013). These are all essential skills that they will eventually need to succeed, not only in primary and secondary school, but also in the job market and in their interpersonal relationships. Preschool aged children are becoming able to decipher their own emotional states and the emotional states of others and are able to talk about them. Preschool enhances these skills and encourages self-confidence and communication. Children who attend preschool also tend to have better communication skills because that have more child to child interaction as well as needing to effectively convey their needs to their teacher. These children are also more likely to engage in positive play, develop mutual friendships and are more likely to find acceptance from their peers. Through their play, they learn how to work in teams and cooperate with other children. Their counterparts, on the other hand are more likely to experience quite a

The Lincoln Child Center’s main facility is located in West Oakland, California. It is a non-public organization formed of services and programs that provide care for children, youth, and families. Lincoln offers direct community, home, and school based services for over eighteen-hundred children, youth and families (Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, personal communication, August 3, 2015). Additionally through the Kinship, Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, and Family Resource Center programs, Lincoln implements services directly to over six-hundred caregivers, with nearly twenty-five hundred direct service clients. For the fiscal year of 2015-2016, the agency’s overall budget is twenty-million dollars (Finance Director,

The center in which I am conducting observations at is the Metro Gateway Child Development Center. The director of the center is Kelly Magallanes and the assistant director is Kristen Krauss. The child development center serves about seventy students; public center. I will be assessing the toddler room for the ITERS observation; the lead teacher of the classroom is Ms. Rose and the assistant teacher is Ms. Sonia. There are eight toddlers in total.

When you hear Child Development you think of Children and the way they’re raised. When in reality Child Development is way more than that. Child Development is the biological, physical, and emotional changes that occur between birth and the end of adolescence. Child development is a continuous movement with the child. Early Childhood programs promote child development in their curriculums which is based off of the child care center’s education philosophy.

Babies and toddlers learn through their five senses. It is through the senses and the development of gross and fine motor skills that children are able to explore their environment and learn (Rowan). When babies and toddlers are introduced to technology and learning programs on tablets, computers or the television, they are prevented from