Investing in Caring Relationships
When the infant or toddler is in child care away from parents, this child needs a caregiver who provides time, focus and consistency, shows responsiveness and communicates with the child in many ways.
Prenatal Development: A Life In The Making
We watch a one-celled zygote grow into a fully functioning human being in just 266 days. Insight and perspective into the three stagers of prenatal development. The influences that maternal, paternal and environmental factors on prenatal development.
Pregnancy & Birth: Caring and Preparing For The Life Within
A contemporary look at pregnancy and the birth process, how advances in technology and knowledge affect and influence both. Monitoring, testing and intervention, and how they can reduce the possible complications of pregnancy, labor and delivery.
The Newborn: Development and Discovery
Appearance, behavior and the bonding that takes place between parent and child. Neonatal tests and assessments that determine the state of motor, reflex and sensory systems. Cognitive and social skill development. Breast versus bottle feeding, and the cause and care of high risk infants.
Infancy: Landmarks of Development
Physical and motor development; principles of development, factors which influence development; regulation of basic processes.
Infancy: Beginnings in Cognition and Language
Senses and perception, cognitive and language development; parent role in language learning.
Infancy: Early Relationships
Development of trust, mutuality, bonding and attachment; stranger anxiety/separation anxiety; growth failure; quality caregivers.
Infancy: Self and Social World
Development of emotions; symbiosis and separation; social awareness; cultural effects on development.
Infant and Toddler Care: Keys to Quality Infant
& Toddler Care
What do you expect to find when you enter a childcare center or day care home? What makes a center or home a place of quality providing the best care for children under three? How is quality care for the very young unique? These questions are addressed for parents, caregivers, teachers and directors.
Toddlerhood: Early Child Care and Education
Choices in child care and early education; quality in early childhood programs; issues in early childhood; factors in child abuse.
Toddlerhood: Physical and Cognitive Development
Physical growth and motor development; cognitive and language development; environment for language learning.
Toddlerhood: Emotional Development
Autonomy, shame and doubt; socialization through meeting biological needs, handling emotions and social interaction.
Middle Childhood: Physical Growth & Development
An in-depth look at the physical changes that take place between the ages of 6 and 12 years. In live-action sequences, it covers the development of large and small motor skills, conditions that disrupt growth and development such as obesity, disabilities and stress. Also the effects of poverty on physical growth and development and the role school can play are examined.
Middle Childhood: Social & Emotional Development
This video gives an in-depth look at the development of the "sense of self" in the middle years child. It discusses the need for before and after school child care, the blended family and the formation and function of the peer group. The video concludes with a look at the role of the school itself in the social and emotional development of middle years children.
Middle Childhood: Cognitive & Language Development
This video advances Piaget's theory of concrete operational development. It offers a comprehensive look at the aspects of language development of the school age child and how the school and parents function with respect to the idea of mainstreaming, bilingual education and assessment using IQ and achievement tests.
Moral Development I -
Concept & Theory
This video explains the concept of morality and defines key terms such as moral code, moral judgment and moral intelligence. Helps the viewer understand the complexities of helping young people develop a sense of right and wrong.
Moral Development II - Learning To Be Moral
This video explains the emergence of moral behavior from early infancy through adolescence. Roles that parents, society and schools play are discussed.
History & Trends
History and trends is a current, broad-based look at the evolution of child development thinking from early philosophies to the changing beliefs about human nature, including a look at the much argued "nature-nurture" question.
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Promoting Language & Literacy
Language and literacy make an essential link in cognitive understanding and communication with others.
Heredity & Environment: Blueprints For A Baby
Conception, the function of genes and chromosomes, and the process of cell division. With straightforward graphics and narration, it explains sex determination, inherited traits, and the influence and interaction of heredity and environment on a fetus.
Child In The Family
Functions of the family, diversity in family structures and parenting roles; stress and change; teen parenting; cultural influences.
Nutrition
The food pyramid, nutrients, developmental issues concerning nutrition during pregnancy, infancy, childhood and adolescence.
Play
The importance of play in the lives of children from infancy to middle childhood.
Language Development
Development of language and literacy from infancy through adolescence. The role of the adult, social and cultural factors in supporting language and literacy development.
Self Identity and Sex Role Development
Self, group and gender identify. Theories of cultural and societal influences on sex role concepts and behaviors.
Observation
Reason for observing children; techniques; basic components of naturalistic observations; difficulties in observing and recording.
Preschoolers: Physical & Cognitive Development
Gross and fine motor skills; perceptual development; ways of learning, characteristics of preschool thinking; new uses of language.
Preschoolers: Social & Emotional Development
Emotional and social development; fears and stress; prosocial behavior and aggression; developing conscience, socialization.
Adolescence:
Growth & Development
Problems associated with adolescence such as puberty, nutritional disorders, teen pregnancy, STD's and drug and alcohol.
Adolescence: Social & Emotional Development
The search for identity in adolescence and the influence of parents and peers on this search.
Adolescence: Cognitive & Moral Development
Physical changes of puberty and changes in thinking and moral reasoning. Sexual behavior, values, and educational experience.
Adolescence: Current Issues I
A realistic look at today's teenage challenges of Pregnancy, STD's, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Alcohol and Substance Abuse.
Adolescence: Current Issues II
Depression, Suicide, Delinquency, Violence, Runaways and Dropouts.
The Exceptional Child I -
Building Understanding
Defines the educationally exceptional child by using live action video and interviews to help viewers develop and understanding of a wide span of exceptionalities. Covers differences in the intellectual, communication, sensory , behavioral and physical areas.
The Exceptional Child II - Focusing On Nurturing & Understanding
Reveals how families with exceptional children respond. Introduces viewers to the range of programs that are available for educationally exceptional children and their families, emphasizing the importance of involving and supporting parents.
Theories of Development
Centers on the work of Piaget, Freud, Erikson, Gesell, Skinner and Vygotsky as they view cognitive, psychological, behaviorist, social learning and sociocultural concepts.
Curriculum for Infants & Toddlers:
Child-Centered Curriculum
Teachers show us how a child-centered curriculum is meaningful because it stems from the child. Team planning helps prepare us, helps us see new discoveries for the child. It helps build us as a team because we're coming from the same page.
Curriculum for Infants & Toddlers:
Exploring & Learning
Learning for the very young child is centered on the moment-to-moment experiences of their day. See how the trusted caregiver is first the child's primary mode of learning. Cognitive curriculum is revealed through the actions of children and caregivers involved with materials and the environment.
Curriculum for Infants & Toddlers:
Sensory & Art
All of the child's developing senses are used in understanding his surroundings. Teachers enhance this by giving the child time to explore how something feels, looks, tastes, smells and sounds. Teachers & caregivers show us how they plan materials specifically for involving the senses, providing a sense of safety and security so the very young child can use the "messy" activities with freedom. Share their amazement at the continued interest and long period of time the young child stays involved in these activities.
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