To provide children with a safe and nurturing learning environment and to maintain program effectiveness, teachers must incorporate observation, documentation and assessment into their daily routines. To truly be effective, teachers must develop skills and strategies that are grounded in best practices. This textbook covers topics such as observation methods and techniques, implicit bias, ethics of observation, quality, analyzing data, monitoring, screening and evaluation, meaningful curriculum, and using documentation and assessment to communicate with families.

Keynote presentations, workshop materials, and other helpful resources from the 2020 Partnerships for Well-Being Institute hosted by Human Services at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education. This includes content from both the June 3 Virtual Mini-Institute and the in-person institute currently scheduled for Dec. 8-10 in Garden Grove, CA.

Physical development occurs as children learn how to use and take care of their growing bodies. It is a foundation for other learning and development. Children use their bodies for learning, by moving around and interacting with people and their environment. This learning trajectory look at gross motor skills, fine motor skills, sensory awareness, and physical health and self-care.

The early childhood learning trajectory will help you observe children’s progress in physical development and plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory video outlines children’s progress in physical development. It can be used alongside the EYLF 2.0 assessment and planning cycle to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing.

This lesson teaches students specific skills to practice & establish positive interactions and positive guidance techniques when working with children.

Created by Mallory Gregory, Waverly High School

Students research prenatal development milestones of each month of pregnancy and create a standing tower with group members.

Early childhood is a critical time in development. Many outcomes, both positive and negative, have their beginnings in these years. It is vital that children’s health and safety be protected. High-quality early care and education programs can play a valuable role in improving outcomes
for children.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory video outlines children’s progress in social and emotional learning. It can be used alongside the EYLF 2.0 assessment and planning cycle to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing.

After you have completed the See-Think-Wonder activity the students will be taking an online quiz that will tell them what birth control is right for them.  The What birth control is right for me?-Quiz  is an online app that will walk the students through questions and in the end it will give them what birth control is right for them.  After they have completed this they will then be taking What birth control is right for me?-Survey on Canvas.  They just put their result answer in the survey and then as a class we will be looking at the results.  The survey is anonymous.  We will redo this survey once we have learned about all forms of birth control to see if their results are the same of different. 

This text gives an overview of development, beginning in the mother’s womb through about the age of eight. It starts with a look at perspectives of early childhood, including how children have been viewed historically as well as cross-culturally. Following this chapter, there is a complete overview of the important theorists that have helped to deepen and bring clarity to how children develop. These theories include psychodynamic, behavioral, social cognitive theory, cognitive theory, humanistic, multiple intelligence, growth mindset, and Bloom’s taxonomy. Understanding the implications of each theory is important foundational knowledge for the study of development.

Chapters Three and Four give an overview of the domains of development, followed by an overview of the developing brain. Chapter Five takes a look at the prenatal period, including the birth and postpartum process. Chapter Six describes development in infancy, and Chapter Seven describes the toddler years, including safety considerations that are critical for this period. Chapter Eight looks at the preschool years, including the role of peers, play, and television (and other electronics) in development. Chapter Nine concludes the text with a brief look at the start of what is known as the school-age years, universally recognized as between the ages of five and eight.