Identify the recommended feeding patterns of school-age children.
Central Objective: Identify the recommended feeding patterns of school-age children to support healthy development in early childhood education and child care centers. Supporting Elements: outline appropriate practices for recognizing and demonstrating feeding-related activities, and provide examples of age-appropriate activities for different ages. This page offers practical guidance for educators and caregivers to implement evidence-based feeding patterns across age groups.Trainings incorporating this outcome
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Related Outcomes
- Identify appropriate practices for identify and demonstrate an children: Identify examples of appropriate activities for different ages
- List and review recommended feeding schedules and identifies strategies for introducing new food for children birth through age three
- List recommended feeding schedules and identify strategies for introducing new food for children birth through age three.
- List and review recommended feeding schedules and identify strategies for introducing new food for children birth through age three
- Identify the recommended nutritional needs of children five years to twelve years of age
- Identify safety management and supervision practices of school-aged children.
- Identify strategies that promote health and wellness for school-aged children.
- Identify essential elements for effective communication with school-age children.
- Identify appropriate practices for identify and demonstrate an children: Identify importance of individual planning
- Identify types of bullying affecting school aged children.
- Define self-esteem and identify issues and strategies for support of school age children.
- Identify strategies to increase parent involvement in the school-age setting.
- Describe strategies to support school age childrens language and literacy skills.
- Demonstrate an understanding of physical growth and development in school age children and the impact it has on programming
- Identify different types of play in children ages 2 to 5.
- Identify the nutritional needs of children aged four and above.
- Define and identify the components of developmentally appropriate practice for children aged 2 to 5.
- Identify resources for referral and services for the school-age setting.
- Describe strategies to support the development of mathematical skills in school age children.
- Identify appropriate practices for identify and demonstrate an children: components of a lesson plan
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