DEVELOPMENTALL Y APPROPRIATE PRACTICES DAP Types of Learning

DEVELOPMENTALL Y APPROPRIATE PRACTICES DAP

Types of Learning Active Learning • actively involved and engaged in the learning by doing, seeing, and • thinking. Passive Learning • sitting and listening • without interaction.

Forms of Education 1. ADULT DIRECTED: Teacher decides what to do and how to do it. • Teacher controlled: Pre-cut, pre-drawn, instructions on how to assemble it, samples 2. ADULT INITIATED: Child has creativity, but adult initiates the idea of making something and chooses the supplies to be used. • Teacher provides materials: paper, cotton, glue. . Now use these to make… 3. CHILD DIRECTED, CHILD INITITATED, and TEACHER SUPPORTED: Child decides what to do, the idea, and the material to use. Adult follows the child's lead. • Child chooses: supplies, play items, idea and teacher encourages There is a time and place for all 3. When could you see these forms of education happening?

DAP Curriculum • Includes all areas of development Cognitive Social Emotional Physical

• A variety of stimuli, activities, and materials • Encourages uninhibited, active exploration and investigation. • Challenges child to solve mysteries/problems on their own. Adults help kids too much!

• Concrete • Hands on, touch, manipulate • Learn by doing • Relevant • Interests • Real • Part of daily life

Developmentally Appropriate is: • Designing curriculum to match how children learn and develop then • Recognizing the child’s capability and challenging their ability • Individual • Each child is an individual • Age appropriate • Ages and stages as a guide • Multi cultural/Non- sexist in activities, materials, and equipment.

DIP Lesson vs. DAP Lesson Nobody learns anything sitting on their bottoms!

Apple Activity: • Get in small group • Card and pencil • Look at the apple you are given • In 30 seconds write down as much as you can about the apple you have.

Apple Activity: • Get in same small group • Card and pencil • Get tools and towel • Discover the apple you are given • Write down as much as you can about the apple you have.

• NOT TIME SCHEDULED • Time to explore • Free choice…child can move freely between activities. • Balance resting time and active movement

DAP Atmosphere is: • Children actively participating. • Full of questions, comments, or interruptions, or something is wrong. • Often noisy with laughter, questions, and talking. • High quality playtime Seed plant

Why DAP Works • Tell me…. I forget • Show me…. I remember • Involve me…. I understand

QUALITY DAP TEACHERS KNOW THAT Children are Active (not passive) Learners so they. . • Give children opportunities for gross motor activities each day. • Keep inactive segments short. • Provide free-choice periods. • Adapt to differing styles and abilities • Provide many opportunities for children to communicate • Facilitate successful completion of tasks. • Recognize that children learn through trial and error . • Build activities around children’s interests. • Provide many chances for children to explore. • Encourage children to pose problems and investigate solution. • Facilitates development of self control • Allow for increasing independence as child acquires skills

QUALITY DAP TEACHERS KNOW THAT Children are Playful so they. . • Integrate play throughout the day. • Provide variety of props and manipulative objects. • Encourage children to create and use their own ideas. • Create a classroom design and schedule that allows children to move about freely. • Recognize that high quality play is often noisy. • Make it fun by teaching with excitement and enthusiasm for learning. • Risk looking silly, loosing perfect discipline, and showing emotion. • Experience it with the child because learning should be a walk of discovery, not a race to the finish line.

QUALITY DAP TEACHERS KNOW THAT Children are our Future so they. . • Respond quickly to each child’s needs • Be alert to signs of stress in children’s behavior. • Build self-concept by • Respecting, • Accepting, and • Comforting the child regardless of the behavior

DAP Reaction Paper • Answer the questions on your paper. Use your notes if needed. • Use the back to discuss your honest reaction to the teaching with DAP methods. • Use the prompt questions to help you write your ½ page reaction. • Turn in!!