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Ecology of Nonparental Child Care - Coggle Diagram
Ecology of Nonparental Child Care
Components of optimal quality care
The caregiver-child ratios
Whether caregiver had specialized training in child development or early childhood education
The size of the overall group
10 NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards
Use developmentally, culturally, linguistically appropriate/effective teaching approaches.
Provide ongoing assessments of child progress
Promote nutrition/health of children and staff
Employ/support qualified teaching staff
Employ/support qualified teaching staff
Establish/maintain collaborative relationships with families
Establish/maintain relationships and use resources of the community
Provide safe/healthy physical environment
Implement curriculum that fosters all areas of child development (cognitive, emotional, language, physical, social)
Promote positive relationships for all children/adults
Implement strong program management policies that result in high-quality service.
Some causes of poor-quality child care
High caregiver turnover
Low wages, lack of benefits, adverse working conditions
Different state requirements for child-care facilities/teachers
NAEYC Accreditation standard criteria
Staff qualifications and training
Administration/staffing patterns
physical environment
Health & safety
Nutrition and food service
Child care used during 20th century for following purposes:
Social Service
Enrichment
Parent Employability
Intervention
Readiness
Chronosystem areas of concern:
Separation from mother
Child-care setting
Ecological systems
Studies focusing on mother-child relationship:
Spitz's study
Bowlbys Study
Skeels's Study
Contemporary studies
Variables influencing child-care socialization outcomes:
Child Variables
Age at entry into day care
Gender
Health
Temperament
Security of attachment to mother
Family Variables
Family structure (two parent, single parent, etc)
Parental education level
Mother employed part or full time
Mother's attitude toward work
Mother's attitude toward child care
Mother's sensitivity/responsiveness to child
Roles/relationships between parents
Fathers involvement in child care
Parenting styles
Stress/coping strategies
Socioeconomic status
Culture/religion
Child-Care Variables
Compensation of caregivers
Caregiver stress
Stability of caregivers
Adult-child ratio
Quality of dat-care setting
Sensitivity/responsiveness of caregiver to child
Caregiver education/training
Caregiver ideology/attitudes toward child rearing
Caregiver-parent communication
Part of full-time day care
Type of program
Type of care
Exosystem link: Business Support for families:
Child care, elder care, ill/dependent assistance programs
National resource/referral service networks
Flextime programs to allow employees to adjust workdays
Extended leave of absence policies
Work at home programs
Family issues sensitivity training
School partnerships, donations of equipment, time for employees to volunteer, etc.
On-site employee-staffed child-care centers
Job-sharing programs
Parent education seminars
Types of Quality child care:
In-home care (Privately funded or by relative)
Family day care (privately funded)
Center-based care (privately & publicly funded)
Piaget's four stages of development
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete operational
Formal operational
Types of Curriculum:
Direct Instruction Curriculum
Montessori Curriculum
Developmental Interaction Curriculum
Tools of the mind curriculum
Ethical mind
Respectful mind
Creating mind
Synthesizing mind
The disciplined mind