This document discusses developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) for teaching children. DAP is an approach grounded in research on how children develop and learn. It considers a child's individual development, culture, and abilities. The core of DAP includes knowing child development, what is suitable for each child, and what is culturally important. The document provides effective DAP teaching strategies like giving assistance, information, and directions while acknowledging children. It emphasizes meeting children as individuals and helping each child achieve challenging goals that contribute to their development.

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POPY TRIA MEISELA
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DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE
PRACTICES TO TEACHING CHILDREN

2. Children have differences behavior,
characteristic, and learning style with teens
and adult. As teacher should make
preparation,approaches,method,strategy,and
inovation to teach children. The teacher
should make them always interested to
learn.
Teaching Children

3. Developmentally appropriate practice,
often shortened to DAP, is an approach to
teaching grounded in the research on how
young children develop and learn and in what
is known about effective early education.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice
( DAP )

4. 3 CORE CONSIDERATIONS OF DAP
1. Knowing about child development and learning.
2. Knowing what is individually appropriate.
3. Knowing what is culturally important.

5. Effective DAP Teaching Strategies assist you in
meeting the needs of the children in your
program:
1. Give assistance
2. Provide information
3. Give directions
4. Acknowledge

6. DAP in the Classroom
To successfully engage in developmentally appropriate
practice (Copple & Bredekamp, 2006), teachers need
to:
 Meet children where they are, as individuals and as
a group.
 Help each child attain challenging and achievable goals
that contribute to his or her

7. Teaching children is not easy. Teacher
must have approach in teach them.DAP
(Developmentally Appropriate Practice) is one
of approch about how children learn and
develop. It’s can to help teacher to teach
children. DAP has some teaching strategy for
teacher when they teach in the Classroom.
CONCLUSION

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