3.1: Standards and Competencies
NAEYC Standards
The following NAEYC Standard for Early Childhood Professional Preparation addressed in this chapter:
- Promoting Child Development and Learning
- Building Family and Community Relationships
- Observing, Documenting, and Assessing to Support Young Children and Families
- Using Developmentally Effective Approaches to Connect with Children and Families
- Using Content Knowledge to Build Meaningful Curriculum
- Becoming a professional
California Early Childhood Educator Competencies
- Child Development and Learning
- Culture, Diversity, and Equity
- Family and Community Engagement
- Learning Environments and Curriculum
- Professionalism
- Relationships, Interaction, and Guidance
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Code of Ethical Conduct (May 2011)
The following elements of the code are touched upon in this chapter:
Section I: Ethical Responsibilities to Children
Ideals: 1.1 – 1.12
Principles 1.1 – 1.11
Section II: Ethical Responsibilities to Families
Ideals: 2.1 – 2.9
Principles: 2.1 – 2.15
Section III: Ethical Responsibilities to Colleagues (it is broken into two specific responsibilities)
A – Responsibilities to coworkers
Ideals: 3A.1 – 3A.4
Principles: 3A.1 – 3A.4
B – Responsibilities to employers
Ideals: 3B.1 – I – 3B.2
Principles: 3B.1 – P – 3B.5
Section IV: Ethical Responsibility to Community and Society (we have both an individual and a collective responsibility)
Ideals: 4.1 – 4.8
Principles: 4.1 – 4.13