What does developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) involve?

DAP results from process of pros making decisions about education and well-being of children based on 3 important kinds of info or knowledge known as:

Early development is characterized by:

Pruning

Employers concerned about literacy skills; professors concerned about "readiness" for college work, blame who and why?

NAEYC

Rebecca Williams described the pedagogical implications of theoretical orientation intended by the term constructivisim in what way?

Motivation to learn emerges from what?

Epistemic Curiosity

What does Vytgosky call the range of experiences that are sufficiently challenging yet manageable?

What style does this exemplify? The teacher planfully arranges, models, and monitors as students within limits defined by the learning materials follow their inborn inclination to discover and to understand?

What is an example of DAP being put into practice and uniting an understanding of development of young people with principles of learning?

Although middle childhood is usually defined as spanning the years from about age 8 to 12, what are American middle schools generally intended to address?

Where does constructivism (in both old and new forms) place the student and teacher?

Discourse concerning DAP is more concerned with...

A 21st-century view of educational assessment that goes beyond reliance on narrow and fallible tests in linking knowledge about individual learners with instructional planning and decision making.

What young children experience at home vs what older children and youth experience in school, major school programs (Head Start) have reflected awareness that education can alter course of child development

Promoting positive awareness of differential rates of development among children; inspired more age-appropriate practices (junior high-high school)