Intensify Learning

Activity 1: Understanding Play & Developmentally Appropriate

Practices

1. Enumerate five key areas of early learning practices for effective

teaching? Choose 3 key areas and explain. (1 sentence only)

Answer: The five key areas of early learning practices for effective teaching are; creating a caring
community of learners, teaching to enhance development and learning, planning curriculums to achieve
important goals, assessing children’s development, and learning and establishing reciprocal relationship
with families. In creating a caring community of learners, the community played an important role in
children’s learning and personality so the community must be observed and apply good manner and
right conduct. One of the five areas of early practices for effective learning is assessing children’s
development, in this area assessment of each children is very important in order to know the learning
progress of the student. And teaching to enhance development and learning in this area of early
learning practices teachers should be responsible in enhancing development and learning of children’s

2. What is Play and Developmentally Appropriate Practices? Explain. (2

sentences only)

Answer: Play and Development Appropriate Practices deals about the way of teaching to the children to
meet where they are. It also talks that all teaching practices should be appropriate to children’s age and
development status.

Insure Outcomes

Activity 2: Binary Choice/ Alternative- Response Test

Instructions: Write Yes if the statement is correct and No if the statement is

wrong.

YES 1. Teachers set clear and reasonable limits on children’s behavior

and apply those limits consistently.

YES 2. Opportunities to play together, collaborate on investigations and

projects, and talk with peers and adults enhance children’s development

and learning.

NO 3. Child-guided experience proceeds primarily along the lines of the

teacher’s goals, but is also shaped by the children’s active engagement;

child-guided experience proceeds primarily along the lines of children’s

interests and actions, with strategic teacher support.”

YES 4. Teachers organize the daily and weekly schedule to provide

children with extended blocks of time in which to engage in sustained play,

investigation, exploration, and interaction (with youngters and peers).

YES 5. Teachers know how and when to use the various learning

formats/contexts most strategically.

YES 6. Scaffolding can take a variety of forms; for example, giving the

child a hint, adding a cue, modeling the skill, or adapting the materials and

activities. It can be provided in a variety of contexts, not only in planned

learning experiences but also in play, daily routines, and outdoor activities.

NO 7. To enable these children to make optimal progress, teachers are

highly intentional in use of time, and they focus on key skills and abilities

through slowly engaging experiences.

NO 8. In this way they ensure that children’s learning experiences—in

only child-guided contexts—are consistent with the program’s goals for

children and connected within an organized framework.

YES 9. Teachers use these with an eye to moving all children forward in

all areas, adapting when necessary for individual children. When children

have missed some of the learning opportunities that promote school

success, teachers must adapt the curriculum to help children advance

more quickly.

YES 10. Assessment also is a tool for monitoring children’s progress

toward a program’s desired goals.

Integrate Learning

Activity 3.

Make your own assessment tools in developing the learning of the child.

Create ways in establishing reciprocal relationships with families.