CDA Competency Goal: To establish and maintain a ___________________, healthy learning environment

CDA Competency Goal: To advance physical and ______________________ competence

CDA Competency Goal: To support ___________________ and emotional development and provide positive guidance

CDA Competency Goal: To establish positive and productive relationships with _______________

CDA Competency Goal: To ensure a ______________________, purposeful program responsive to participant needs

CDA Competency Goal: To maintain a commitment to ______________________

Functional Area Safe: Student provides a _________________ environment to prevent and reduce injuries

Functional Area Healthy: Student promotes good _____________ and nutrition and provides an environment that contributes to the prevention of illness.

Functional Area Learning Environment: Student uses space, relationships, materials and routines as resources for constructing an interesting, secure, and enjoyable environment that encourages play, ______________________, and learning.

Functional Area Physical: Student provides a variety of equipment, activities and opportunities to promote _________________ development of children.

Functional Area Cognitive: Student provides activities and opportunities that encourage _____________________, exploration and problem solving appropriate to the development levels and learning styles of children.

Functional Area Communication: Student actively ____________________ with children and provides opportunities and support for student to understand, acquire and use verbal and nonverbal means of communicating thoughts and feelings.

Functional Area Creative: Student provides opportunities that _________________ children to play with sound, rhythm, language, materials, space and ideas in individual ways and to express their creative abilities.

Functional Area Self: Student provides physical and emotional _____________ for each child and helps each child to know, accept and take pride in him/herself and to express their creative abilities.

Functional Area Social: Student helps each child feel accepted in the group, helps children learn to communicate and get along with other and encourages feelings of empathy and mutual __________________ among children and adults

Functional Area Guidance: Student provides a supportive environment in which children can begin to learn and ________________________ appropriate and acceptable behaviors as individuals and as a group.

Functional Area Families: Student maintains an open, friendly and _____________________ relationship with each child’s family, encourages their involvement in the program and supports the child’s relationship with his or her family.

Functional Area Program Management: Student is a manager who uses all available resources to ensure an effective operation. The student is a competent ____________, planner, record keeper, communicator, and a cooperative co- worker.

Functional Area Professionalism: Student makes decisions based on knowledge of early childhood theories and practices, promotes quality in child care services and takes advantage of opportunities to improve competence, both for personal and professional _________________ and for the benefit of children and families.

CDA Subject Area Planning a safe and ________________ learning environment

CDA Subject Area Advancing children's __________________ and intellectual development

CDA Subject Area Supporting children's social and ___________________ development

CDA Subject Area Building productive ____________________ with families

CDA Subject Area Managing an effective ___________________ operation

CDA Subject Area Maintaining a commitment to _____________________

CDA Subject Area Observing and _____________________ children's behavior

CDA Subject Area Understanding principles of child development and _______________