Standard 1: Child Development and Learning in Context
- 1c: Understand the ways that child development and the learning process occur in multiple contexts, including family, culture, language, community, and early learning setting, as well as in a larger societal context that includes structural inequalities.
Standard 2: Family-Teacher Partnerships and Community Connections
- 2a: Know about, understand, and value the diversity of families.
- 2b: Collaborate as partners with families in young children’s development and learning through respectful, reciprocal relationships and engagement.
- 2c: Use community resources to support young children’s learning and development and support families, and build partnerships between early learning settings, schools, and community organizations and agencies.
Standard 4: Developmentally, Culturally, and Linguistically Appropriate Teaching Practices
- 4a: Understand and demonstrate positive, caring, supportive relationships and interactions as the foundation of early childhood educator’s work with young children.
Standard 6: Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator
- 6a: Identify and involve themselves with the early childhood field and serve as informed advocates for young children, families, and the profession.
- 6b: Know about and uphold ethical and other early childhood professional guidelines.
- 6d: Engage in continuous, collaborative learning to inform practice.
