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Professional development is a continuum of learning and support activities designed to prepare individuals for work with and on behalf of young children and their families, as well as ongoing experiences to enhance this work. These opportunities lead to improvements in the knowledge, skills, practices, and dispositions of early childhood ...
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Play is essential for all children, birth through age 8. Play (e.g., self-directed, guided, solitary, parallel, social, cooperative, onlooker, object, fantasy, physical, constructive, and games with rules) is the central teaching practice that facilitates young children’s development and learning. Play develops young children’s symbolic and ...
Explore accreditation of early childhood higher education programs, discover the accreditation system standards, and view a list of accredited programs. Accreditation Research Databases Access accreditation data on early learning and higher education program characteristics and quality for research purposes.
Standard 1: Relationships. The program promotes positive relationships among all children and adults. It encourages each child’s sense of individual worth and belonging as part of a community and fosters each child’s ability to. contribute as a responsible community member. Warm, sensitive, and responsive relationships help children feel ...
Playful learning leverages the power of active (minds-on), engaging (not distracting), meaningful, socially interactive, and iterative thinking and learning (Zosh et al. 2018) in powerful ways that lead to increased learning. Free play lets children explore and express themselves—to be the captains of their own ship.
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Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education Position Statement. All children have the right to equitable learning opportunities that help them achieve their full potential as engaged learners and valued members of society. Thus, all early childhood educators have a professional obligation to advance equity. They can do this best when they are ...
The content in this issue of Young Children highlights the many ways early childhood educators incorporate technology and media into their work—delving into digital portfolios and relationships with families, computational thinking and coding, representation in children’s media and the importance of media literacy, and building on children ...
Engage with fellow early childhood professionals and spend a dynamic day at NAEYC headquarters with our Professional Learning and Engagement team. See all upcoming workshops. NAEYC offers a variety of webinars and trainings that build professional development and highlight important topics in the early childhood education field.