REFLECTIVE CONNECTION
 

1a: This NAEYC standard ensures early childhood professionals have an understanding of the ways young children develop across physical, cognitive, social/emotional, and language areas. My Comparison of Curriculum Planning Approach provides evidence of being able to make decisions about what, when, and how to teach activities connected in a coherent way to content goals and teaching strategies. The Block Scheduling Assessment demonstrates an understanding of the importance to design a schedule with effective learning strategies to meet their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional developmental needs throughout their school day.
 

1b: This NAEYC standard ensures early childhood educators see each child as a unique individual with unique strengths, needs, interests, and abilities and have the capabilities to make their own learning choices.  My Universal Design Learning Plan provides evidence that I understand that students are able to use their own knowledge, appropriate early learning standards, and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curricula for their learning experience.  The Learning Plans demonstrate my ability to create developmentally appropriate lessons that are aligned with Washington Common Core Standards that engage students' interests and are varied for different abilities and capabilities.
 

1c: This NAEYC standard ensures early childhood teachers understand that child development and the learning process occur in multiple contexts, including family, culture, language, community, and early learning setting or society.  My Guiding Young Children's Behavior assignment provides evidence that I have an understanding of how to analyze appropriate guidance techniques and consequences/solutions related to student behavior and their developmental appropriateness. The Curation Page for First Grade Learners demonstrates my ability to gather an authentic, developmentally appropriate learning opportunity presenting the best resources in a meaningful and organized way.

​

1d: This NAEYC standard ensures early childhood educators understand that brain development and function have a profound effect on child development. My Science of Early Childhood Infographic provides evidence of understanding of how brain growth, plasticity, and sensitive periods for learning and recovery from brain injury/trauma and the effectiveness of how early childhood professionals can build on this knowledge to support children's development. The Planning for Intentional Assessment demonstrates my ability to analyze content from readings and be able to apply the knowledge of observation, documentation, and professional learning standards in a classroom setting. My Literacy Across the Development Continuum exhibits my knowledge of effective practices for teaching reading and writing on the developmental continuum between the preschool and primary grades.