Early Childhood Professional - correct answer ✔✔An educator who successfully teaches all children,
promotes high personal standards and continually expands his or her skills or knowledge
Five Goals of Professionalism - correct answer ✔✔1. Promoting Child Development
2. Building Family and Community Relationships
3. Observing Documents and Assessing to support young children
4. Teaching and Learning
5. Becoming a Professional
NAEYC - correct answer ✔✔The National Association for the Education of Young Children
What impact does this organization (NAEYC) have on the field of early childhood? - correct answer
✔✔offers guidelines for responsible behavior, sets forth a common basis for resolving the principal
ethical dilemas encountered in early childhood
Philosophy of Education - correct answer ✔✔beliefs about how children develop and learn
Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) - correct answer ✔✔Practice based on how children grow
and develop and on and on individual cultural differences
Advocacy - correct answer ✔✔The act of engaging in strategies designed to improve the circumstances
of children and families
Ethical Conduct - correct answer ✔✔Responsible behavior toward studetns and parents that allows you
to be considered a professional
Why is it important to study past educators who influenced the current ideals of early childhood
education - correct answer ✔✔Old ideas and theories are often reborn