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What DAP Means to Me
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What DAP
Means to ME
Christopher Rodriguez
Being
Respectful
RESPECTFUL
- Be Culturally sensitive
- Understanding children's differences
- Acknowleging the age group.
My Thoughts
My Thoughts
Being Respectful plays into DAP as in order to fully understand and demonstrate Developmentally Appropriate Practices we have to look at the children, their skills and their cultures as each come from different representations, Those representations play a part in how we look at experiences and how we introduce them, what materials we can use. We have to respect their backgrounds and skills as we what to lift them up and support them.
Being Appropriate
APPROPRIATE
- Acknowledging the age group
- Acknowledging Skill Level
- Child Friendly
My
Thoughts
My Thoughts
Being Appropriate makes you look at DAP as a whole, which we need to consider the chidlren as a group, as individials and assess the skills of the group. Which will allow us to create appropriate experiences that can be introduced at different levels for different skill levels and skill sets. We also make them to be friendly and inviting rather than intimidating.
Being Cooperative
CoOperative
- Being Flexible
- Working with others to support the children.
- Communicate with families.
My Thoughts
Being Cooperative plays into DAP as we work with others to identify learning styles, skills able to use and need to accomplish. So we need to be flexible in the learning process and take it a step at a time do look at the appropriateness of each experience.
Creativity
- Being hands-on
- Messy Experiences
- Child Interests
- Freedom of Expression
CREATIVITY
My Thoughts
Thoughts on Creativity towards DAP
DAP makes me think of creativity as Early Childhood Teachers we have to make experiences that are appropriate for the age group but also allows for full creative control in the experiences. Lisa Murphy said it best in her video on process vs product art video, "it's the child's ideas not mine" during child's experiences we are "facilitators of the experience" (Murphy, 2017, 4:20).
Indiviuality
Individual
- Likes and Dislikes
- Learning Stages
- Individual learning Styles
- Not every child learns the same.
My Thoughts...
We as educators know that each child is an individual and "All Children Are Not The Same" (Pica, 2015).
"Expecting all children in the same grade to master the same work at the same level and pace" (Pica, 2015, p. 6) is a crazy feat. Children all learn in different ways and not at the same pace, they learn in their own way and pace.
My Thoughts
References
RedleafPress. (2017, June 21). Creative art with young children. YouTube. Retrieved December 2, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNsYYAWiDPc
Pica, R. (2015). What If Everybody Understood Child Development: Straight Talk About Bettering Education and Children's Lives. Corwin.