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Mission & History « Early Childhood Options - 0 views

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    Colorado Resource for Early Childhood. "Mission of Early Childhood Options The mission of Early Childhood Options is to promote a collaborative system that improves the quality, affordability and availability of early childhood programs in Summit County."
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How The Memory Works In Learning - 1 views

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  • Teachers are the caretakers of the development of students’ highest brain during the years of its most extensive changes. As such, they have the privilege and opportunity to influence the quality and quantity of neuronal and connective pathways so all children leave school with their brains optimized for future success.
  • We now know that through neuroplasticity, interneuron connections (dendrites, synapses, and myelin coating) continue to be pruned or constructed in response to learning and experiences throughout our lives.
  • The prefrontal cortex
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  • the CEO that can manage and control our emotions.
  • undergoing maturation throughout the school years.
  • the emotion sensitive limbic system is a switching-station that determines which part of the brain will receive input and determine response output.
  • ew information cannot pass through the amygdala (part of the limbic system) to enter the frontal lobe if the amygdala is in the state of high metabolism or overactivity provoked by anxiety. It is important for teachers to know that when stress cuts off flow to and from the PFC, behavior is involuntary.
  • it is possible to decrease the stressors of frustration from work perceived as too difficult or boredom from repeated instruction after mastery is achieved
  • research reveals other causes of the high stress state in school and suggests interventions to reduce the stress blocking response in the amygdala.
  • most successful construction of working (short-term) memory takes place when there has been activation of the brain’s related prior knowledge before new information is taught.
  • help students increase working memory efficiency
  • with opportunities to make predictions, receive timely feedback, and reflect on those experiences.
  • Memory is Sustained by Use
  • needs to be activated multiple times and ideally in response to a variety of prompts for neuroplasticity to increase its durability
  • Retention is further promoted when new memories are connected to other stored memories based on commonalities, such as similarities/differences, especially when students use graphic organizers and derive their own connections.
  • Multisensory instruction, practice, and review promote memory storage in multiple regions of the cortex,
  • requires opportunities for students to transfer learning beyond the contexts in which it is learned and practiced
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Childcare iPad apps for Sign In/Out, Attendance, Text Alerts and Child Portfolios - 0 views

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    "We are an exciting startup in the San Francisco Bay area (Santa Clara, CA) providing iPhone apps and web admin tools to Child care centers and preschools. Our apps enable smooth communication between preschools and parents through exchange of photos, email and notifications. Our single touch signin/sigout app allows parents to signin and signout their children from the daycare. We are currently in private beta. Kinderlime improves a preschool operators bottomline by getting the word of mouth through your exisiting families and real time ratio tracking. "
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The Whole Child - ABCs of Child Care - Social - 1 views

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    "Social and Emotional Development abc's of child development for parents for early care providers Social and emotional milestones are often harder to pinpoint than signs of physical development. This area emphasizes many skills that increase self-awareness and self-regulation. Research shows that social skills and emotional development (reflected in the ability to pay attention, make transitions from one activity to another, and cooperate with others) are a very important part of school readiness"
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CECMHC | Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation - 1 views

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    "The Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation was created through a grant from the Office of Head Start. Our target audience includes: Mental Health Consultants Head Start Program Administrators Head Start Staff Training & Technical Assistance Providers Families The Center translates research in healthy mental development into materials tailored to the needs of each of the target audiences, and makes them available on this website. In addition, the Center serves as an online "Community of Learners:" a clearinghouse for the exchange of ideas through traditional and new media. "
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Who is watching? Thinking ethically about observing children - Early Childhood Australia - 1 views

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    "Who is watching? Thinking ethically about observing children Just how much of a child's life is private? Who has the right to monitor? What judgements are being formed; and what decisions are being made on their behalf? Every day, educators observe, record conversations and capture images of children for analysis and reflection, to guide their curriculum decisions and inform their understanding. While every step is taken to ensure children's confidentiality and privacy, how often is the perspective of the child considered? This article outlines the ethical tensions that arise for early childhood education and care settings, as they manage recording observations of children with multiple requests from students, researchers and visitors to engage with and observe children."
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Videatives | Video Clips for Early Childhood & Child Development - 0 views

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    "What is a Videative? The word videative [vid´-é-ã-tive]   refers to the combination of text and video segments to create an integrated viewing experience (video + narrative = videative). The text explains the video and the video exemplifies the text. Our videatives help you see what children know™ and thereby help you better support their learning."
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Using video to investigate preschool classroom interaction: education research assumpti... - 0 views

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    "This article reports on the use of video to collect dynamic visual data in education research and proposes that using visual technologies to collect data can give new insights into classroom interaction. Video data unveil how young children use the full range of material and bodily resources available to them to make and express meaning, forcing a reconsideration of Vygotskian accounts of the relationship between thought and language by producing grounded evidence for a pluralistic interpretation of the construction and negotiation of meaning. In addition to challenging language-biased approaches to classroom interaction, using video to collect data also forces a reexamination of established methodological practices. Drawing on data from ESRC-funded ethnographic video case studies of 3-year-old children communicating at home and in a preschool playgroup, this article discusses methodological and ethical dilemmas encountered in the collection and transcription, or representation, of dynamic visual data, arguing that visual data gives insights into aspects of communicative behaviour pre"
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