Unit 3 Vocabulary

Child Care Center

minding or daycare is the caring for and supervision of a child or children,usually from age six weeks to age thirteen

Child Development Associate(CDA)

Is based on core set of competency standards.

Custodial Care

The acting parent of the child

Accreditation

Following a set of standards to obtain a certification.

Child Development Associate Credential

you must have at least 120 hours of child care experience be 18 years of age

Church Sponsored

A childcare center located in a church under the direction of a religous domination

Conscious Discipline

A comprehensive classroom management program and a social -emotional curriculum

Au pair

A person from another country who lives with a family and provides child care.

Employer Sponsored

An employer offers for the benefit of his/her employees at no or a relatively low cost to the employees

Abraham Maslow

Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization.

Conservation (Piaget)

Refer to a logical thinking ability which,according to the psychologist

Erick Erickson

Through psychologist development