Early Childhood Curriculum Planning
Understanding Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP)
- What is the definition of DAP? (Please be sure to include your source.)
- Discuss how DAP includes age, individual, and cultural appropriateness.
- Explain how using DAP influences early childhood behavior and learning.
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According to Puckett & Diffily (2004), the term Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) can well be defined as an advance to teaching stranded in the research on the development and learning of young children or in other words what is well known as the effective early childhood education. Its framework is intended to promote optimal learning and development of young children. In addition, it involves teachers’ effort to meet young children wherever they are in every stage of their development, both…………….
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