1. Follow this link to the NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) 2. Read the overview and then in a short paragraph define the term “Developmentally Appropriate Practices” and what it means to you as a teacher. Include 3 specific examples of how you use Developmentally Appropriate Practices in your classroom. 3. List the 3 Considerations found on the NAEYC website 4. Read the following “10 Effective DAP Teaching Strategies” Provide an example of a time that you had to change your teaching strategy because of a student’s developmental needs in your classroom. Be sure to use one of the . For example, you were discussing “Life on the Farm” and you had a child in the class that had never been on a farm or had any prior knowledge about farm animals. How would you change your teaching strategy to meet that child’s individual needs? Or you have a child that did not want to participate in the learning activity and lacked motivation to learn. You can use more than one of the strategies listed! An effective teacher or family childcare provider chooses a strategy to fit a particular situation. It’s important to consider what the children already know and can do and the learning goals for the specific situation. By remaining flexible and observant, we can determine which strategy may be most effective. Often, if one strategy doesn’t work, another will.
