Educational Program and Practice in Early Childhood

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD
Early Childhood
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National Quality Standard
Educational program and practice
The objective of Educational program and practice is to ensure and maintain the child’s
learning and their development in their studies. The standards state that the curriculum decision
made during the education programs should contribute to every kid learning and development
that will result to kids’ wellbeing in school and increase the child confidence in taking the
studies1. The Educational program and practice is child-centered as all its aspects as it
concentrates on the child’s strengths, culture, current knowledge and interests in its routine to
maximum child’s learning. The standard also defines how the teachers in lower school who teach
young children how they are supposed to carry out their job. The standard directs the teachers to
carry out responsive teaching and carry out an assessment of the kid's studies and present these
reports to the parent.
Response to Question 2: National Quality Standards
Quality Area 5 of the National Quality Standard (of NQF) aims to develop relationships
with children in an interactive, responsive and responsible manner. According to this standard –
“Each child is supported to build and maintain sensitive and responsive relationships.” The area
focusses to enhance and address the children’s feeling of belonging and security needs. These

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sort of socially nurturing relationships assist children to engage in a mindful, playful learning
while exploring different components of the environment.
Standard 3 of National quality framework focuses on quality area 3 incorporates learning
‘environment’ in the framework. According to this standard, “the service environment is
inclusive, promotes competence and supports exploration and play-based learning”. Quality Area
3 aims at ensuring that the child’s environment is secure and safe. It also focuses on providing an
enriched form of diversified experiences which would eventually lead to learning and cognitive
development. .The environment is equipped, designed and organized in such a way that the
resourceful environment becomes readily engaging to the child, contributing to his positive
behavior and proximal development.
Response to Question 3: Communication Techniques
To communicate with children in their early age, one requires to use effective
communication techniques as the little children do not understand complex communication
techniques. One can use either verbal or non-verbal techniques. The non-verbal techniques
include the use of body languages and gestures such as smiles and at touching kid’s body parts
such as hands when communicating with a kid. The verbal techniques include tone variation
(vocal cues), exaggeration of concepts being taught, storytelling, rhyming words and visual
cuing with picturesque illustrations of ideas or objects. These techniques leaves a distinct
impression in a child’s mind so that they can learn easily and recall them instantly when asked.