Early Childhood Education (Birth to Grade 3) Subtest 2
Subarea I.1. Development of Children from Birth–Age 5
0009
Understand how to assess and facilitate the cognitive development of infants, toddlers, and preprimary-age children.
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for creating developmentally appropriate learning environments that foster individual children's curiosity and exploration, extend their thinking and learning, and move them to higher levels of functioning
- applying knowledge of how to provide opportunities for individual children to use self-initiated repetition to practice newly acquired skills and to experience feelings of autonomy and success
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for helping young children acquire, organize, and use information in increasingly complex ways
- demonstrating knowledge of methods and activities to design developmentally appropriate learning experiences that enable individual children to use play as an organizer between the acquisition and use of information
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for assisting young children to plan, evaluate, reflect on, revisit, and build on their own experiences
- applying knowledge of how to provide young children with a foundation for literacy and numeracy development through daily exposure to books, stories, language, and activities that involve object relationships
- demonstrating knowledge of how to develop learning experiences that enhance young children's emerging understanding of spatial relations (e.g., by encouraging active exploration of objects, by using positional words in the context of sensorimotor experiences)
- demonstrating knowledge of how to develop learning experiences that allow young children to construct knowledge of the physical world, manipulate objects for desired effects, and understand cause-and-effect relationships
- demonstrating knowledge of how to provide positive learning environments that allow young children to construct understanding of relationships between objects, people, and events
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for assessing an infant's, toddler's, or preprimary-age child's emerging level of cognitive development and for using this information to establish individual cognitive development goals and design developmentally appropriate learning experiences
0010
Understand how to assess and facilitate the social and emotional development of infants, toddlers, and preprimary-age children.
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for creating developmentally appropriate environments that provide continuity and consistency of affectionate care for young children and that adapt patterns of care to meet individual children's rapidly changing needs
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for establishing and structuring learning environments that promote responsive and predictable interaction sequences, healthy peer relationships, and positive and constructive interactions between and among young children
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for creating environments that facilitate the development of individual children's self-concept, sense of belonging, security, personal worth, and self-confidence toward learning
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for establishing environments that allow for young children's construction of social knowledge, such as cooperating, helping, negotiating, and talking with others to solve problems
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for creating environments that facilitate self-acceptance, self-control, and social responsiveness in individual children through the use of positive guidance techniques
- applying knowledge of how to promote young children's understanding, acceptance, and appreciation of human differences such as but not limited to social, cultural, physical, or developmental factors
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for assessing an infant's, toddler's, or preprimary-age child's emerging level of social and emotional development and for using this information to establish individual social and emotional development goals and design developmentally appropriate learning experiences
0011
Understand how to assess and facilitate the physical development of infants, toddlers, and preprimary-age children.
- applying knowledge of how to design developmentally appropriate learning environments that provide opportunities for active physical exploration and the development of young children's emerging fine- and gross-motor skills
- demonstrating knowledge of how to design developmentally appropriate learning experiences to enhance young children's perceptual skills; balance and coordination; and flexibility, strength, and endurance
- applying knowledge of how to foster a positive attitude toward activity in individual children
- demonstrating knowledge of how to assist young children in becoming competent in acquiring basic gross- and fine-motor skills
- demonstrating knowledge of how to design developmentally appropriate learning experiences for young children that support age-appropriate risk taking within safe boundaries
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for facilitating young children's understanding of how to maintain a desirable level of nutrition, health, fitness, and physical safety
- demonstrating knowledge of how to create learning environments that meet young children's physiological needs for activity, sensory stimulation, rest, hygiene, and nourishment
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for assessing an infant's, toddler's, or preprimary-age child's emerging level of physical development and for using this information to establish individual physical development goals and design developmentally appropriate learning experiences
0012
Understand how to assess and facilitate the creative development of infants, toddlers, and preprimary-age children.
- demonstrating knowledge of how to create developmentally appropriate learning environments in which young children are able to explore and expand their creative abilities
- applying knowledge of strategies for enhancing young children's abilities to create their own ideas and solve problems through art, music, dance and creative movement, dramatic play, and other creative activities
- demonstrating knowledge of how to develop experiences that encourage young children's development of initiative, creativity, autonomy, and self-expression; and integrating adult support, comfort, and affection to facilitate these aspects of development
- applying knowledge of how to use open-ended creative arts activities to reinforce young children's individuality and positive self-concept
- demonstrating knowledge of how to design developmentally appropriate music, dance and creative movement, dramatic, and visual art experiences that encourage young children's self-expression of ideas and feelings
- demonstrating knowledge of how to provide young children with opportunities to use creative arts materials and forms in self-selected and self-directed ways
- applying knowledge of how to design learning environments that help young children develop and sustain curiosity about the world, including past, present, and future events; trends; and relationships
- demonstrating knowledge of how to create a learning environment that promotes shared problem solving, creativity, and conceptual integration among young children
- demonstrating knowledge of strategies for assessing an infant's, toddler's, or preprimary-age child's emerging level of creative development and for using this information to establish individual creative development goals and design developmentally appropriate learning experiences
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