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This NAEYC Digital Resource, Watching, Wondering, and Learning Together: Best Practices with Infants and Toddlers, covers a wide range of topics of relevance to a diverse group of readers. The articles in this collection focus on the unique characteristics and needs of infants and toddlers and the approaches to supporting their development and learning. We hope that these articles will foster individual reflection and collegial conversations in this country and around the world.  

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The September issue of Young Children focuses on developmentally appropriate practice for infants and toddlers. Read about ways to promote infants’ early language skills, incorporating art and sensory activities into the infant and toddler curriculum, con and a Colorado initiative seeking to establish a statewide Touchpoints network.

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The basic concepts of developmentally appropriate practice aren?t difficult or arcane, but they can be understood wrongly or incompletely?and often are! This new resource articulates and illustrates the core concepts in simple, memorable ways, including classroom examples and other techniques.

Based on NAEYC?s 2005 book Basics of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (#259), by Carol Copple and Sue Bredekamp, this video gives learners a brief introduction to the foundational ideas of the early childhood field. The video is versatile enough to be shown as part of any beginner-level discussion of DAP. Some instructors and trainers will want to show it when learners are using NAEYC?s 2009 volume Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 (#375) or other texts.

Produced by RISE Learning Solutions, in collaboration with NAEYC. 41 min.

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Developmentally appropriate practice is so fundamental to the early childhood field that all new educators need a sound grasp from the very start. While DAP’s basic concepts aren’t difficult or arcane, they can be understood wrongly or incompletely—and often are! This engaging set (Basics of DAP book and Looking at the Basics of DAP DVD) describes the core concepts and makes them meaningful to everyday practice.

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The fundamentals of developmentally appropriate practice for all children. From the Child Care Collection. 28 min. Also available in Spanish (#8821S).

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This DVD-ROM features the video segments from NAEYC's two online programs—"DAP and Intentionality" and "DAP and Play"—produced by NAEYC with the 2009 release of the third edition of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8.

Each video includes presentations from practitioners and other experts in the field and scenes depicting developmentally appropriate practice in action—in classrooms for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and primary grade children. "DAP and Intentionality" addresses ways in which teachers intentionally use a variety of learning formats and teaching strategies to support children?s learning. "DAP and Play" focuses on the characteristics and types of play and the teacher?s role in supporting high-level play. Also included are PDF versions of handouts for each video that highlight the key messages of the programs. 

Note: This DVD disc is meant to be played on a computer with a DVD drive.

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This professional development resource features the video program produced by NAEYC with the 2009 release of the third edition of NAEYC’s Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8. The video includes an overview of developmentally appropriate practice, presentations from NAEYC leadership and experts in the field, as well as scenes depicting developmentally appropriate practice in action—in classrooms for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and primary grade children.

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Developmentally appropriate, research-based strategies for promoting children's literacy learning in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary classrooms and infant/toddler settings. A strong, coherent framework for effective practice appears in NAEYC's joint position statement with the International Reading Association, which is supported by many other organizations and reprinted in this book. Alive with classroom photos and children's work, the book offers crystal-clear guidance and exciting ideas for teachers to help young children on the road to reading and writing competence. 

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Professional Development Library

This kit is perfect for programs that are building a professional development library. Included in the kit are resources to help teaching staff enhance their understanding and application of developmentally appropriate practice, or DAP. Some of the books and the DVD focus on the pedagogy—how to provide high-quality early childhood education to young children. The kit also includes books focused on the content—what areas of study should be included in a high-quality program in which staff facilitate children's learning through developmentally appropriate practice.

The kit includes:

Books

• Basics of Developmentally Appropriate Practice: An Introduction for Teachers of Children 3 to 6
• Basics of Assessment:  A Primer for Early Childhood Educators
• Code of Ethical Conduct brochure packet (25 brochures)
• Social and Emotional Development: Connecting Science and Practice in Early Childhood Settings
• Big Body Play: Why Boisterous, Vigorous, and Very Physical Play Is Essential to Children's Development and Learning
• Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children
• The Young Child and Mathematics (2nd ed.)
• Ramps & Pathways: A Constructivist Approach to Physics with Young Children
• Active Experiences for Active Children: Social Studies (2nd ed.)
• The Story in the Picture: Inquiry and Artmaking with Young Children

DVD

• DAP:  A Focus on Intentionality and on Play

A $300 value if purchased separately.

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 When you need a simple tool to communicate the developmentally appropriate approach that characterizes your kindergarten program, this appealing brochure comes in handy. It describes key areas of children's development, suggests the basic educational approach that helps children learn and thrive, and details what parents should look for in a kindergarten. (Updated in 2009)