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Kansas Early Learning Standards . True or False. The KSELS are designed to recognize the importance of the early years as learning years. . TRUE. The KELS are designed to recognize the importance of the early years as learning years. . True or False.
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True or False • The KSELS are designed to recognize the importance of the early years as learning years.
TRUE • The KELS are designed to recognize the importance of the early years as learning years.
True or False • The KSELS serve as a curriculum in an early childhood program or other setting.
FALSE • The KSELS DOES NOT serve as a curriculum in an early childhood program or other setting.
True or False • The KSELS serve as a guide for appropriate curriculum development/selection.
TRUE • The KSELS serve as a guide for appropriate curriculum development/selection.
True or False • The KSELS serve as a guide for creating quality learning environments and opportunities.
TRUE • The KSELS serve as a guide for creating quality learning environments and opportunities.
True or False • The KSELS can be used to exclude children from a program, school or activity.
FALSE • The KSELS canNOTbe used to exclude children from a program, school or activity.
True or False • The KSELS serve as an assessment for children, families or programs.
FALSE • The KSELS DO NOTserve as an assessment for children, families or programs. • While they provide important information to guide programs and see development they are not an assessment tool.
Four Developmental Domains of the KSELS • Physical • Social Emotional • Communication and Literacy • Cognitive
Kansas Early Learning Standards are: “statements describing the expectations for skills and knowledge that young children ages birth to five, should know and be able to do as a result of participating in high quality early childhood programs.
Developmental Domains in our Text • Aesthetic Domain • Affective Domain • Cognitive Domain • Physical Domain
Developmental/Content Areas in KSELS • Physical Health and Development • Social Emotional Development • Communication and Literacy • Approaches to Learning • Science • Mathematical Knowledge • Social Studies • Fine Arts
Growth • Refers to the increasing size and weight of the individual child and the physical and physiological changes taking place.
Development • Refers to the increasing complexity of various skills and attributes within the child, that is the more complex motor, language, mental, social and emotional responses.
Maturation • Refers to the general tempo at which various biological, behavioral and personality characteristics emerge.
Principles of development • Development occurs in a orderly sequential manner • Development proceeds from head to toe (cephalocaudal) • Development occurs from midline to the extremities (proximodistal)
Developmental principles cont. • Development proceeds from broad generalized abilities to more specific skills • Rates of development vary within a child, at times rapid in one area and slower in others. • Development is influenced by temperament, the child’s inborn way of responding to people and experiences.
Developmental Principles cont. • Children can often do things with adults before they can do them independently. • Children construct their knowledge of the physical world through exploration and experiences • Early development lays the foundation for later development.
Motivation • Refers to the child’s incentive or desire to learn a behavior.