History & Evolution Early Childhood Field Assessment Responses
History & Evolution Early Childhood Field Assessment Responses
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PV001 History and Evolution of the Early Childhood Field
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Short Answer 1
For each of the names listed below, write a 1-paragraph response that describes the individual’s contribution to the early childhood field.
- John Amos Comenius
Your Response
- John Amos Comenius created the first picture book, which he dedicated to early childhood education because he believed that
- all kids below the age of six need to be taught in their local language. On the other hand, John Amos Comenius introduced the notion of grades or stratification of education into levels based on the age and developmental stage of the learner.
- Johann Pestalozzi
Your Response
Johann Pestalozzi set the pace for kindergarten because he introduced a sequence of instruction that moved gradually from simple to complex, from easy to difficult as well as concrete to abstract. On the other hand, Johann Pestalozzi emphasized object lessons and sense experience, which encouraged the introduction of geography and natural science and geography into the elementary curriculum.
Friedrich Froebel
Your Response
- The greatest contribution of Froebel in the early childhood field was his contribution to the care and education of young children. Froebel contributed to the early childhood field by his invention that is known as kindergarten. Even if he was not the first to discover that play is instructive, he synthesized the existing educational theories with his innovative ideas.
- Maria Montessori
Your Response
- Maria Montessori greatly contributed to the early childhood field because she developed the Montessori method, which is a system of education for kids of up to six years. The system allowed the kids to learn in a setting where their learning process is majorly based on self-directed activities with the instructor present to only remove barriers from the environment as opposed to teaching by rote or disciplining them.
- Susan Blow
Your Response
- Susan Bow enhanced the training of St. Louis public kindergarten teachers. On the other hand, her public kindergarten system became a national model for administering early childhood education to public schools. Susan Bow implemented Friedrich Froebel’s pedagogy into instruction in America.
- John Dewey
Your Response
- John Dewey contributed to early childhood education by facilitating progressive learning to the elementary curriculum. He facilitated the introduction of a curriculum that let learners learn by doing. He held to Froebel’s notion that learners learn best when they are in their natural setting.
- Patty Smith Hill
Your Response
Patty Smith Hill advocated for free play in the education of young children. She developed blocks for play, which were contrary to the play gifts of Friedrich Froebel, which came to be referred to Patty Smith Hill blocks.
Caroline Pratt
Your Response
Caroline Pratt contributed to the early childhood field by arguing that intrinsic motivation, as well as belief, allow children to construct meaning via play, as argued by Jean Piaget. On the other hand, Caroline Pratt supported the notion that not only inherited characteristics but also environmental chances of engaging in the world facilitated the development and learning in early childhood.
Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Your Response
Lucy Sprague was an important figure in progressive education who was influenced by another philosopher John Dewey to recognize the need for learners to learn through play as well as directed experience. On the other hand, Lucy Sprague democratized progressive education because he spread its ideas through the development of teacher education as well as children’s writers.
McMillan Sisters
Your Response
Sisters, Margaret and Rachel McMillian influenced early childhood education as they developed Open-Air Nursery School. They not only introduced the notion of starting education while young before fledgling the kindergarten program, but their school also was meant for kids who came from poor backgrounds with the influence of Froebel. They advocated for learning via interactions with the environment and people as the school kept an open environment for exploration for learners to develop. The current elementary schools reflect on the early nursery schools’ principles.
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| Sub-Competency 1: Describe the contribution of prominent researchers, early childhood professionals, and advocates to the early childhood field. | ||||
| Learning Objective 1.1:
Describe the contribution of prominent researchers, early childhood professionals, and advocates to the early childhood field.
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Description is missing. | Response vaguely or incompletely describes the key contributions of each individual. | Response accurately describes the key contributions of each individual. | Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following:
Response describes the contributions of an additional individual to the early childhood field. |
Short Answer 2
- For each of the significant events or research named below, write a 1-paragraph response that describes its impact on the early childhood field.
The Kindergarten Movement
Your Response
The Kindergarten Movement was founded by Froebel, and it impacted early childhood as it introduced into the elementary curriculum the importance of constructive play as well as self-activity. The movement succeeded in ensuring that the teacher ought not to impose and intervene mandatory education to a kid in kindergarten age but only uncovers the prevalent and uncovered hindrance to the kid’s development in terms of creativity.
The Inclusion Movement
Your Response
The inclusion movement saw diverse and different learners learn side by side in the same learning environment. Different and diverse students learning side by side in the same classroom. The inclusive movement has impacted the early childhood field because it has improved the quality of education that is received by all kids and is important in the change of discriminatory attitudes.
The Progressive Education Movement
Your Response
The Progressive Movement exhibited lasting impacts on practice as well as instructional methodology. Theorists such as Maria Montessori and John Dewey believed that education ought to be responsive to the interests and needs of the learners contrary to teaching a curriculum that was proscribed by conventional practice. They led to the change of the autocratic teaching styles, which greatly relied on memorization and textbooks.
Founding of National Association for Nursery Education (NANE)/ National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
Your Response
The founding of NAEYC/NAYE has improved the well-being of kid’s right from birth to eight years as it emphasizes the developmental as well as the quality of educational services for the kids in the above-mentioned age brackets.
The Bureau of Education Experiments
Your Response
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Works Progress Administration Nurseries
Your Response
Works progress Administration Nurseries played a role as it initiated programs that led to the development of kindergarten schools, bridges as well as parks that enabled easy access of progressive learning and constructive play as well as self-activity by the learners.
The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
Your Response
It offers financial support for demonstration programs for the identification, prevention as well as treatment of child abuse of kids. It also identified the federal role of supporting research, data collection, evaluation as well as technical as it sets forth the age for child neglect and abuse.
The Economic Opportunity Act and the Founding of Head Start
Your Response
It has established agencies that aim at fighting poverty among the communities. This has ensured that kids from low-income families are able to access elementary education freely thus reducing child negligence among the underprivileged families.
Hart and Risley’s Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children
Your Response
It linked the size of vocabulary to the socioeconomic status as opposed to a language disorder present, and this expressed the essence of early knowledge during intervention and assessment. The Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children created awareness that providing education concerning language simulation to parents enables parents to develop a luxurious language setting for the kids, and this supports the classroom instruction by collaborating teachers and parents.
Perry/High Scope Preschool Project
Your Response
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| Sub-Competency 2: Describe the impact of significant events and research on the early childhood field. | ||||
| Learning Objective 2.1:
Describe the impact of significant events and research in the history of the early childhood field. |
Description is missing. | Response vaguely or incompletely describes the impact of each event and/or research on the early childhood field. | Response accurately describes the impact of each event and/or research on the early childhood field. | Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following:
Response describes an additional significant event and/or research and its impact on the early childhood field. |
Short Answer 3
In a 4- to 6-paragraph response, identify at least three early childhood professional organizations. Describe the purpose of each organization and explain its significance to the early childhood field. Provide a citation for each organization.
Your Response
The five early childhood professional organizations I chose include; The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAYE), The Association for Childhood Education International (ACE), The National Head Start Association Council for Exceptional Children and lastly the National Association for Family Child Care.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children: Aims at promoting high-quality early learning for every young child right from birth up to eight years of age by connecting early childhood policy, practice as well as research. It provides information through its research to the public, which aids in monitoring the quality of education availed to the kids.
Association for Childhood Education International: Creates awareness for desirable conditions, programs as well as practices which affect infancy and children from birth to eight years of age; thus, through the information, it provides a significant understanding for kids in the elementary level of learning.
The National Head Start Association represents children in the United States of America. It works for policy changes, and this ensures that risk kids access aid to support the family and the community at large.
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| Sub-Competency 3: Describe key professional organizations that inform early childhood practice. | ||||
| Learning Objective 3.1:
Describe early childhood professional organizations and their purposes. |
Description is missing. | Response incompletely or vaguely describes three or fewer early childhood organizations.
Response includes a partial or inappropriate citation for each organization. |
Response describes three relevant and appropriate early childhood organizations and their purposes.
Response includes a citation for each organization. |
Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following:
Response describes more than three relevant and appropriate early childhood organizations. |
Short Answer 4
- In a 2- to 3-paragraph response, identify at least one organization that advocates for children and families. Describe the purpose of the organization and describe one current advocacy issue this organization is working on today. Provide a citation for the organization.
Your Response
The organization I identified is The National Head Start Association. It represents children as well as their families in the United States of America. It works for policy changes, and this ensures that risk kids access aid to support the family and the community at large.
The National Head Start Association aims to lead and be the untiring voice representative who will ensure that vulnerable children get served with the set model together with the entire family as well as the community. It is also committed to creating institutional and policy changes that guarantee that families and vulnerable kids receive what they need for their success.
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| Sub-Competency 4: Describe research and advocacy organizations that support children, families, and early childhood professionals. | ||||
| Learning Objective 4.1: Describe early childhood research and advocacy organizations and their purposes. | Description is missing. | Response is vague or irrelevant.
Citation is missing or incomplete. |
Response describes one relevant early childhood research and advocacy organization.
Response includes a citation for the organization identified. |
Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following:
Response describes more than one relevant and appropriate early childhood research and advocacy organization. |
History & Evolution Early Childhood Field Assessment Responses
Short Answer 5
Identify at least two peer-reviewed publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base. In a 4- to 6-paragraph response, summarize the main focus of each publication, and explain how it informs early childhood practice and/or expands the professional knowledge base. Provide an APA citation for each publication.
Your Response
According to Cumming, Sumsion & Wong (2015), maintaining an early childhood workforce is an essential issue for families, children as well as the national productivity of the instructors. Nevertheless, in many countries, the workforce has remained a challenge, and it undermines exertions to enhance sustainability.
The article examines efforts of addressing challenges that face early childhood workforce where there are underway childhood reforms. Cumming, Sumsion & Wong (2015) argue that the efforts of addressing challenges facing the early childhood workforce in the current police are insufficient and cannot sustain long-term early childhood workforce.
In a nutshell, the article alleges that major attention to the day-to-day politics of the educators’ as well as the forces that shape the milieux, can lead to the development of new ways of supporting workforce sustainability.
On the other hand, Kerckaert, Vanderlinde & Braak (2015) argue in their article that currently, many researchers are convinced that Information and communication technology in early fields offers the learners numerous possibilities. The article aimed to obtain a clear picture of the use of ICT in early childhood education.
The article examines the impacts of using ICT in early childhood education where Kerckaert, Vanderlinde & Braak (2015) argue that the use of ICT requires basic skills and attitudes. This takes place frequently and is associated with the level of the pre-scholars.
In conclusion, the article portrays that professional development is an important factor that stimulates the use of ICT, transcending the teaching of basic skills as well as attitudes.
History & Evolution Early Childhood Field Assessment Responses
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| Sub-Competency 5: Describe peer-reviewed professional journals and other publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base. | ||||
| Learning Objective 5.1:
Describe the main focus of peer-reviewed publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base. |
Description is missing. | Response describes irrelevant publications or is incomplete.
APA citations are missing or incomplete. |
Response thoroughly describes the focus of two relevant and appropriate peer-reviewed publications that inform early childhood practice and expand the professional knowledge base.
APA citations are mostly accurate. |
Response demonstrates the same level of achievement as “2,” plus the following:
Response identifies more than two relevant and appropriate peer-reviewed publication. |
History & Evolution Early Childhood Field Assessment Responses
References
Cumming, T., Sumsion, J., & Wong, S. (2015). Rethinking early childhood workforce sustainability in the context of Australia’s early childhood education and care reforms. International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 9(1), 2. Retrieved: https://ijccep.springeropen.com/articles/10.1007/s40723-015-0005-z
Kerckaert, S., Vanderlinde, R., & van Braak, J. (2015). The role of ICT in early childhood education: Scale development and research on ICT use and influencing factors. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 23(2), 183-199. Retrieved
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/37198156/EECERJ_Kerckaert_Vanderlinde_van_Braak.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DThe_role_of_ICT_in_early_childhood_educa.pdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A%2F20191128%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20191128T115334Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=22226ce300d0d53ad50859810f30df703a6e46eb0d533a5b538d6a96ac6fd0c9
History & Evolution Early Childhood Field Assessment Responses