including the infant in the curriculum “all children are born wired for feelings and ready to...
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Including the Infant in the Curriculum
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“All children are born wired for feelings and ready to learn.”
-National Academy of Sciences, “From Neurons to Neighborhoods”
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Physical Development 101
• Children strive to learn and move– They are driven to experiment with large
and small muscle skills– They practice constantly
• Making the environment safe – What is “appropriate risk?”– How do we make environment
easy to move in?
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Social Relations 101
“Quality of care ultimately boils down to the quality of the relationship between the child
care provider or teacher and the child.”Shonkoff, J. P., & Phillips, D. A.(2000).
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PITC Essential Policies
• Primary Care
• Continuity of Care
• Small Groups
• Individualized Care
• Continuity of Family Culture
• Inclusion of Children with Special Needs
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Social Relations 101
• Children are searching for trusting and secure relations with caregivers
• Children need a secure base for learning
• Children need to imitate and interact with caregivers
• Infants are attuned to both positive and negative responses
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Language Development 101
• Infants practice speech, strings of words, sentences, with caregivers and by themselves.
• Language mastery enables increasingly complex social and intellectual challenges.
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Language Development 101
• Language & communication develop in trusting relationships
• Infants are fascinated with the human voice, facial expressions, & gestures.
• Infants repeatedly imitate their caregiver’s vocalizations
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Intellectual Development 101
• Infants learn by:– Observing and imitating,
– Continually inventing new and better ways of doing things,
– Practicing and through play.
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Discoveries of Infancy
• Learning Schemes
• Cause and Effect
• Use of Tools
• Object Permanence
• How Objects Fill Space
• Imitation
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Caregiver’s Role
• Adapt – Environments and interactions to respond
to the child’s changing interests and needs• Support Practice and Repetition
– Let child continue practice to communicate acceptance and encouragement
• Expand Learning– Add information– Build on familiarity
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Caregiver’s Role
• Effective caregiver’s take lead from child.
• Effective caregiving take infants to the next step through respect of infants competence.
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“Neither loving children nor teaching them is, in and of itself, sufficient for optimal development: thinking
and feeling work in tandem.”
-Eager to Learn