Define SMART goals and describe its historical context.
Learn about SMART goals and its historical context, and discover how differentiated instruction is implemented in early childhood education classrooms. Explore the importance of setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound objectives, while understanding how tailored instruction can benefit young learners. Find valuable insights for early childhood education and child care centers.Trainings incorporating this outcome
CDA Subject Areas
Proficiency Level
120 hours courses
12 CEUs10 hours courses
5 hours courses
Related Outcomes
- List strategies to implement SMART goals.
- Define active play in the early childhood classroom and describe its benefits for young children.
- Demonstrate understanding of how to write effect SMART Goals.
- Define differentiated instruction in early childhood education and describe how it may look in the classroom.
- Describe the importance of monitoring the family child care environment for potential risks.
- Describe how language is one of the many ways through which culture affects development.
- Describe strategies to incorporate mathematics into teaching practices.
- Define the similarities between major theories.
- Describe ways to analyze classrooms for an anti-bias approach.
- Describe the primary learning centers and their components.
- Describe infant/toddler nutritional needs
- Describe Piaget’s sensorimotor and preoperational stages of cognitive development.
- Describe common myths and misconceptions about time management in child care.
- Describe how to use the Strengthening Families Self-Assessment for program improvement.
- Define healthy practices to mitigate the spread of germs and decrease the likelihood of SIDS in infants and toddlers.
- Demonstrate understanding of using assessment and observation for short and long term goal development for special needs
- Define culture and cultural sensitivity
- Describe the stages of grief and the different ways children react to grief and stress.
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