What Do Children Learn in a High-Quality Kindergarten? - NAEYC
Learning Standards. Every state has learning standards that describe what children need to know and be able to do at a certain age. Teachers use these standards to balance what children need to learn with their knowledge of how children learn best. Subject Areas
Kindergarten - NAEYC
Equitable STEM Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Common Core - NAEYC
Nov 1, 2017 · The Common Core State Standards is an initiative to develop common core standards in English language arts and mathematics for grades K-12. In 2012, the National Association for the Education of Young Children recognized that the Common Core State Standards presented cause for both opportunity and concern. NAEYC offers these resources …
What Does a High-Quality Kindergarten Look Like? - NAEYC
There are a lot of terrific, high-quality kindergarten classrooms. But sometimes you might see practices that don't help children learn and develop. A few are listed here. If you're concerned about something you see or hear in the classroom, talk to your child's teacher or a school administrator. Children spend a lot of time in their seats.
Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood
Through the Early Childhood Personnel Center (ECPC), with participation from NAEYC representatives, a cross walk of the Initial Practice-Based Professional Preparation Standards for Early Interventionists/Early Childhood Special Educators and the Professional Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators is available.
The 10 NAEYC Program Standards
NAEYC has set 10 standards for early childhood programs that can help families make the right choice when they are looking for a child care center, preschool, or kindergarten. The standards and criteria are also the foundation of the NAEYC Accreditation system for early childhood programs. To earn accreditation, programs must meet all 10 standards.
The Common Core in Early Education - NAEYC
Developmentally Appropriate Practice and the Common Core State Standards: Framing the Issues (April 2015) The Common Core State Standards:Caution and Opportunity for Early Childhood Education (November 2012) Variation in Children's Experience of Kindergarten and the Common Core (November 2012)
kindergarten programs, community-based child care providers, and local elementary schools (Head Start Program Performance Standards 1996; Lombardi 2003). Any new recommendations with respect to early childhood curriculum, child assessment, and program evaluation must take this expanded scope into account
The Power of Playful Learning in the Early Childhood Setting
Rigid teaching practices soon trickled down into preschool and kindergarten classrooms, replacing playful, child-initiated activities with more time at desks with pencil-and-paper tasks and resulting in kindergarten looking more like “the new first grade” (Miller & Almon 2009; Bassok, Latham, & Rorem 2016, 2).
review the range of the field’s existing standards and competencies and establish a process for arriving at a set of agreed-upon standards and competencies for the early childhood education profession, working birth through age 8 across states, settings, and degree levels. This work included a deep look at multiple national standards and