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Marquez, Janey; McGinty, Gloria – 2000
One of the most important tasks in working with teachers is helping them develop their own abilities to create developmentally appropriate curriculum for young children. This paper reflects on, from two perspectives, the ongoing process of teachers developing an understanding of how children learn and how that process affects curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Inservice Teacher Education, Preschool Education
Malinowski, Jon C. – Camping Magazine, 2003
The camp community is plagued by various stereotypes, including that camps and their staff are excessively happy, of poor quality, focused on partying and debauchery, scary, or overly strict. These cliches are perpetuated by the mass media. Each stereotype is discussed, and strategies for countering them during staff training are presented. (TD)
Descriptors: Camping, Counselor Attitudes, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Leadership Training
Zeece, Pauline Davey – Child Care Information Exchange, 1991
Maintains that staff guidance in early childhood and child care programs can be optimized when it functions within the guidelines of developmentally appropriate practices in regards to staff age, stage appropriateness, and individual appropriateness. Differences in individual staff temperament and cognitive styles are considered. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Age Differences, Child Caregivers, Cognitive Style
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Cottrell, Barbara Hansen; DeJong, Lorraine – Young Children, 1999
Describes successful practices and procedures for designing effective infant care programs for children born to teenage parents, including supervisory support for nurturing caregiver-child relationships, continuous staff training in infant development, low teacher-child ratios, active parent involvement, a child development curriculum, and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Childhood Needs, Day Care, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Cooper, Mark J.; Droddy, Frances – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 1999
Suggests that a better understanding of effective methods for teaching adults will contribute to a paradigm shift in training of child care center staff based on developmentally appropriate practices for adults. Details seven recommendations for improving staff training, and contrasts appropriate and inappropriate practice in the areas of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Change Strategies, Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers
Kennard, Linda, Ed.; Taylor, Mary, Ed. – 1993
Issue papers that focus on improving and expanding quality early childhood services in Louisiana are presented in this report. Each paper includes a description of current practice, several questions and answers concerning the issue, and a list of recommendations and strategies. Following an executive summary and introduction (which includes a…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Certification, Curriculum Design, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Honig, Bill – 1989
This program advisory provides direction to school districts and providers of preschool and early primary programs in California who are implementing the recommendations of the School Readiness Task Force Report, "Here They Come: Ready or Not!" The Task Force Report addressed the issue of what kind of education would be necessary during…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Guidelines
Turco, Angela – 1993
An intervention project sought to lower the grade retention rates of kindergarten, first-, and second-grade students in one New Jersey school district. During three school years, 1987-1990, the retention rate was 7 percent of the total population of these grades. An exploration of causes identified several possible factors, including: (1) lack of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary School Students
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Passidomo, Marian – Young Children, 1994
Describes the experience of a conservative, suburban school system making the change from traditional classroom instruction to more developmentally appropriate practices. Discusses the planning and implementation process, focusing particularly on the issues of skills acquisition, assessment, staff development, and parent involvement. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Change, Instructional Improvement, Nontraditional Education
Lorenz, Julia – Early Childhood News, 1995
Presents reasons and specific "how to" information for increasing the comfort level and learning possibilities for toddlers. Notes that toddler-sensitive child care recognizes that toddlers are distinct from infants and from preschoolers in terms of developmental characteristics. Lists characteristics of toddlers, ways to make child-care…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Health, Classroom Environment
West, Lillie S. – 1996
The introduction and implementation of new educational programs has occurred in public education throughout its history, and staff development has been the primary means by which new programs have been introduced to teachers and administrators. The focus of staff development programs has been on the acquisition of theory and of skills, with the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Inservice Teacher Education
Fulmer, Elizabeth H. – 1992
A project was developed and implemented to increase developmentally appropriate activities for children in 79 Orange County, Florida, public schools participating in the Extended Day Enrichment Program (EDEP). Personnel from the EDEP were enlisted to produce curriculum kits, resource portfolios, cultural immersion workshops, and music, art, dance,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Art Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary Education
Spatig, Linda; And Others – 1996
In the Head Start Public School Transition Demonstration Project, 32 demonstration sites across the country have extended Head Start-like services to help low-income children transition smoothly into the elementary grades. Preliminary evaluation of a demonstration program in two West Virginia counties suggested that Head Start students receiving…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1991
This summary highlights implementation strategies from the full report for restructuring middle grade education in Texas. The task force was guided by a central theme--a vision of Texas schools using each other as resources and the campus planning process as a vehicle for implementing research-based concepts and practices in the middle grades.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Environment
Kendrick, Martie; Labas, Linda – 2000
This paper provides an overview of the Maine Department of Education's "Foundations of Inclusive Education," a guide for early childhood professionals, families, and educators on implementing inclusive education for school and preschool children. A basic premise of the guide is that inclusive education is not a separate initiative for…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Environment
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