ECE HGD3
Issued by
Heartland Community College
Earners will define how cultural, familial, biological, and environmental influences, including stress, trauma, protective factors, and resilience, impact children’s well-being and learning.
- Type Validation
- Level Foundational
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
Earning Criteria
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Describe the impact of community and cultural practices such as traditions, values, goals, and language on children’s developmental domains (e.g., physical, emotional, social, cognitive) and developmental trajectory.
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Recognize and articulate how biology influences children’s individual physical, emotional, social, cognitive development, and their developmental trajectory
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Describe the theoretical perspective for how environment influences children’s developmental trajectory, including: • Quality early childhood education • Structural inequities • Trauma • Family and societal influences
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Explain theoretical perspectives and the research demonstrating the impact of family and societal contexts, for example: • stress, • trauma, • protective factors and early experiences, resilience on young children’s development and learning
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CHLD 121 and CLD 102
Standards
Describe the theoretical perspectives and core research base that shows that family and societal contexts influence young children’s development and learning
Describe how structural inequities and trauma adversely impact young children’s learning and development
Describe how quality early childhood education influences children’s lives
Describe how children’s learning is shaped by cultural and linguistic contexts, their close relationships with adults and peers, economic conditions of families and communities, adverse and protective childhood experiences, ample opportunities to play and learn, experiences with technology and media, and family and community characteristics