ECE HGD6
Issued by
Heartland Community College
Earners can justify and promote the use of evidence-based practices supportive of each child’s unique patterns of development and learning.
- Type Validation
- Level Intermediate
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
Earning Criteria
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Use relevant and current evidence-based research to inform support for young children’s holistic development (e.g., physical/ social/ emotional/ cognitive/ language/ aesthetic/brain development)
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Use recognized developmental theory, research, professional judgments, and family knowledge and preferences to support and justify instructional strategy, for example: • developmentally appropriate learning targets, • assessment strategies, • instructional timing, • scaffolding
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CHLD 122 and CHLD 102
Standards
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
Use available research evidence, professional judgments and families’ knowledge and preferences — for identifying and implementing early childhood curriculum, teaching practices, and learning environments that are safe, healthy, respectful, culturally, and linguistically responsive, supportive, and challenging for each child