Developmentally Appropriate Practice | NAEYC The DAP framework is grounded both in the research on child development and learning and in knowledge about educational effectiveness and promotes young children’s optimal learning and development
DAP: Defining Developmentally Appropriate Practice | NAEYC NAEYC defines “developmentally appropriate practice” as methods that promote each child’s optimal development and learning through a strengths-based, play-based approach to joyful, engaged learning
DAP: Teaching to Enhance Each Child’s Development and Learning Developmentally appropriate teaching practices encompass a wide range of skills and strategies that are adapted to the age, development, individual characteristics, and the family and social and cultural contexts of each child served
DAP with Infants and Toddlers - NAEYC DAP with Infants and Toddlers, Ages Birth - 3 The earliest years are all about relationships Infants and toddlers crave and develop attachments to the special people in their lives Depending on how parents, early childhood educators, and others treat them, babies also develop expectations about people and themselves