Demonstrate an understanding of how appropriate material and equipment promotes play.
Discover how appropriate materials and equipment enhance play in early childhood education and child care centers. Gain a deeper understanding of how these factors promote a stimulating environment for children to learn, explore, and develop their social, cognitive, and physical skills.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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120 hours courses
12 CEUs45 hours courses
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Related Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of how to develop appropriate daily schedules that promote routines
- Demonstrate an understanding of how available materials and equipment guide activity development
- Demonstrate an understanding of how play promotes development.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how promoting an integrated curriculum including field trips and community resources promotes development
- Demonstrate understanding the relation between how material and equipment selection assist with lesson plan development and implementation
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to develop appropriate daily schedules that promote routines. (1 hr)
- Demonstrate an understanding of how promoting an integrated curriculum promotes development.
- Demonstrates understanding of an appropriate family child care curriculum
- Demonstrate understanding of developmentally appropriate practices for school-age children with various needs.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how positive guidance promotes sound social and emotional development.
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