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Baumgartner, Jennifer; DiCarlo, Cynthia; Casbergue, Renée – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2020
Service learning (SL) is both a pedagogy and philosophy adopted by many early childhood teacher educators. Extant research suggests the incorporation of service-learning can be effective for facilitating preservice teacher learning of curriculum, pedagogy, approaches to diverse learners and families as well as establishing a professional identity.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Early Childhood Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Teacher Education Programs
Scheithauer, Herbert; Hess, Markus; Zarra-Nezhad, Maryam; Peter, Charlotte; Wolfer, Ralf – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2022
The development of social-emotional skills is crucial in early childhood. Behavior problems in early childhood are risk factors for difficulties throughout childhood and adolescence and beyond. Considering the importance of developing social and emotional skills during early childhood, this study introduced the Papilio-3to6 program into everyday…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Prevention
Walker, Susan P.; Chang, Susan M.; Smith, Joanne A.; Baker-Henningham, Helen – ZERO TO THREE, 2018
Nurturing care in early childhood requires responsive interactions and opportunities to learn; however, there are few large-scale programs in low- and middle-income countries that support parents' ability to provide responsive care and activities that help children learn. The Reach Up training program was developed to increase capacity of…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parent Education, Early Intervention, Family Programs
Henderson, Jasolyn; Strain, Phillip – Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children, 2009
Universal screening enables service providers and families to quickly identify difficulties and implement strategies that are likely to lessen the probability of longterm negative outcomes including severe persistent challenging behaviors. The practice of universal screening is in line with the prevention approach that is the foundation of the…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Social Development, Emotional Development, Young Children
Phillips, Carol Alexander – 1987
The Iowa Prekindergarten/Kindergarten Task Force prepared this report in response to the following charges: to develop recommendations for strengthening existing kindergarten programs and to design a plan for implementing appropriate prekindergarten programs. Among the report's recommendations are that: (1) the Iowa Department of Education…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Guidelines, Kindergarten
Bodrova, Elena; Paynter, Diane E.; Leong, Deborah J. – Principal, 2001
Benchmarks for early childhood education must provide sufficient clarity and direction, pertain to both kindergarteners and preschoolers, specify what knowledge students should be learning, be developmentally appropriate, and reflect student progress. Implementing standards requires educators to address two equally important challenges-teaching…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Benchmarking, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education

Kostelnik, Marjorie J. – Young Children, 1992
Discusses nine common myths, which represent collective opinions based on false assumptions or are the product of fallacious reasoning, associated with developmentally appropriate programs for young children. (BB)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Curriculum Design, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education

Udell, Tom; Peters, Joyce; Templeman, Torry Piazza – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Discusses how early childhood programs can blend developmentally appropriate practices with early childhood special education recommended practices. The elements of an inclusive program and the guidelines to developmentally appropriate practice are explained, and strategies for implementing both practices within the same setting are described. (CR)
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disabilities

Lederer, Susan Hendler – Young Exceptional Children, 2002
This article describes a 4-step protocol for selecting and facilitating production of a first vocabulary in children with specific language impairment using a focused language stimulation approach. Focused language stimulation includes general language stimulation techniques and, in addition, requires frequent, highly concentrated repetitions of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition

Vander Wilt, Judith L.; Monroe, Virginia – Young Children, 1998
Examines factors contributing to and preventing the implementation of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in early childhood education. Presents basic guidelines for DAP, illustrates the use of "both/and" thinking in early childhood practice, and describes the conversion of one school district to DAP. Concludes that administrative…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Educational Administration, Educational Principles
Wood, Janice – 1990
In establishing high quality programs for young children, it is imperative that teachers focus on individual differences, growth patterns, and learning styles while providing educational experiences that develop the physical, social, emotional and cognitive domains without regard to chronological age. Research affirms that a play-oriented approach…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Carta, Judith J.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
This article reviews the rationales and premises of the Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) approach and early childhood special education (ECSE), highlighting areas of overlap. DAP's insufficiencies for planning, implementing, and evaluating ECSE programs are noted. A selective literature review clarifies issues separating the two areas,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Delivery Systems, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Montague, Nicole S.; Marroquin, Christine; Lucido, Frank – 2002
This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Development, Child Development Centers, College School Cooperation
Hsieh, Ming-Fang – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
This study aims to examine the implementation and application of the revised guidelines for developmentally appropriate practice in the care and education of young children in Taiwan. Child-centered philosophy was introduced to Taiwan 30 years ago, but numerous research studies report that Taiwanese early childhood teachers often encounter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Educational Practices, Developmentally Appropriate Practices