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August
Content and Essential Skills
Text Book The Developing Child
Chapter 1-1, Beginning your Study of Children
Ch. 1-2, Understanding Childhood
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Explain why childhood is an important time of development.
Identify ways that play benefits children.
Describe reasons for studying children.
Compare childhood in the past and present.
Outline the leading ideas about how children develop
Describe five principles of development.
Explain influences on development.
Explain the role of self-esteem in development.
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September
Content and Essential Skills
Ch. 1-3, Observing Young Children
Ch. 2-1, Understanding Families
Ch. 2-2, What Parenthood Means
Ch. 3-1, What is Parenting?
Ch. 3-2, Guiding Children's Behavior
Ch. 3-3, Child Care Options
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Explain the importance of observing young children.
- Evaluate four methods of observation.
- Discuss guidelines for observing young children.
- Explain shy confidentiality is essential when observing and interpreting the behavior of children.
Explain the functions that families fulfill.
- Describe types of family structures and special issues related to each type.
- Identify stages that families with children go through
- Analyze trends that affect families today.
Describe the changes that parenthood brings.
- List considerations couples should look at before deciding to become parents.
- Use a process to build management skills.
Explain how knowledge of child development is linked to reasonable expectations.
- Distinguish among different parenting styles
- Identify ways to improve parenting skills.
- Describe how to nurture children.
Explain the importance of consistency in guiding children.
- Apply effective techniques for encouraging appropriate behavior.
- Explain how and why to set limits
- Identify effective ways of dealing with misbehavior.
Explain why people need substitute child care.
- Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the types of substitute care that are available.
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October
Content and Essential Skills
Ch. 4-1, The Realities of Teen Pregnancy
Ch. 4-2, Solving Problems
Ch. 5-1, The Developing Baby
Ch.5-2, A Closer Look at Conception
Ch. 5-3, Problems in Prenatal Development
Ch. 5-4, Avoiding Dangers to the Baby.
Skills
Distinguish between sexuality and sexual activity.
- Explain how values can help teens face issues of sexuality.
- Describe the negative consequences of sexual activity.
Apply the six-part process to solving problems.
- Analyze the various options a pregnant teen has.
Distinguish among the three stages of pregnancy.
- Describe prenatal development during each stage of pregnancy.
- Explain what changes affect a woman during each stage of pregnancy.
Describe how personal characteristics are inherited.
- Explain the causes of multiple births.
- Evaluate different possible solutions for infertility.
Contrast miscarriage and stillbirth.
- Identify some major birth defects.
- Explain the four causes of birth defects.
- Describe how birth defects can be diagnosed and prevented.
Identify the hazards that alcohol and other drugs pose to prenatal development.
- Discuss other environmental hazards that pregnant women should avoid.
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November
Content and Essential Skills
Ch. 6-1, A Healthy Pregnancy
Ch. 6-2, Getting Ready for Baby
Ch. 6-3, Childbirth Choices
Ch. 7-1 Labor and Birth
Skills
List the early signs of pregnancy.
- Assess the importance of early and regular medical care during pregnancy.
- Plan a nutritious diet during pregnancy.
- Give recommendations about the personal care for a pregnant woman.
Analyze how expectant parents can plan for a baby's care.
- Evaluate the preparations expectant parents should make.
- Explain how and why to make a budget.
Discuss the childbirth choices available to most parents.
- Describe how parents can prepare for childbirth.
Recognize signs that labor may have begun.
- Outline the three stages of labor.
- Describe a baby's appearance at birth.
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December
Content and Essential Skills
Ch. 7-3, A New Family Member
Ch. 8-1, Growth and Development of Infants
Ch, 8-2, The Developing Brain
Ch. 8-3, Handling and Feeding Infants
Ch. 8-4, Other Infant Care Skills
Ch. 9-1, Understanding Emotional and Social Development
Ch. 9-2, Emotional and Social Development of Infants
Ch. 10-1, Understanding Intellectual Development of Infants
Ch. 10-2,Helping Babies Learn
Skills
Recognize a baby's reflexes.
- Describe babies basic needs.
- Discuss how babies' needs can best be met.
Analyze children's physical development to find three patterns.
- Describe physical growth during the first year.
- Describe the development of senses and motor skills during the first year.
Explain what functions each part of the brain controls.
- Describe how brain cells work together.
- Explain how the brain becomes organized.
- Identify activities that support the development of brain pathways.
Explain how to hold and feed a baby
- Identify and infant's nutritional needs.
Describe or demonstrate how to bathe, dress, and diaper a baby.
- Tell how to encourage good sleep habits.
- Define emotional and social development.
- Explain the importance of attachment to emotional social development.
- Explain how a baby's care affects emotional and social development
- Analyze people according to different temperament traits.
Describe how behavior is learned.
- Describe how emotions change during infancy.
- Recognize signs of social development in babies.
Give examples of signs of intellectual growth in infants.
- Identify and give examples of Piaget's stages of learning.
- Explain how caregivers can make use of Piaget's ideas.
Discuss ways parents and caregivers can help babies intellectual growth.
- Identify toys appropriate for a baby's age.
- Explain how babies develop communication skills.
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January
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February
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