ECE HGD4
Issued by
Heartland Community College
Earners can Interpret children’s unique developmental patterns and identify supportive resources for children who may require further assessment. Earners can describe process of first and second language acquisition.
- Type Validation
- Level Intermediate
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Earning Criteria
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Assess development (e.g., physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language, including multilingual development) using multi-dimensional knowledge (e.g., developmental period of early childhood, individual child, family, and multiple social identities, ability, race, language, culture, class, gender) of young children
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Use research and professionally recognized terminology to understand and articulate how each child is an individual with unique developmental variations, agency, strengths, interests, challenges, approaches to learning, experiences, and abilities
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Identify specific “red flags” (e.g., https://www.tclny.org/developmental-red-flags) in each developmental domain (physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language) and make connections between concerns and appropriate next steps in supporting children’s unique developmental patterns through family and community relationships, observation and reflection
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Explain the developmental sequence and individual differences in initial and subsequent language acquisition and how dual languages emerge simultaneously in the young child
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CHLD 122 and CHLD 102
Standards
Identify individual characteristics of each child through family and community relationships, observation, and reflection.
Use research and professionally recognized terminology to articulate how each child is an individual with unique developmental variations, experiences, strengths, interests, abilities, challenges, approaches to learning, and capacity to make choices.
Identify individual characteristics of each child through family and community relationships, observation, and reflection
Support young children in ways that respond to their individual developmental, cultural, and linguistic variations
Identify how each child develops as an individual
Use research and professionally recognized terminology to articulate how each child is an individual with unique developmental variations, experiences, strengths, interests, abilities, challenges, approaches to learning, and capacity to make choices.