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Market Rate: The typical listed price for child care in a given geographic area. Market rates will vary due to factors such as location, types of care setting, hours of operation, ages of children they serve, and other features of the providers, such as their educational background.
McKinney-Vento Act: The primary piece of federal legislation related to the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness. The Act authorizes the federal Education of Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) Program with entitles homeless children and youth to a Free, Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), including a Preschool education.
Mentoring: A form of Professional Development characterized by an ongoing relationship between a novice and an experienced teacher or provider to deliver personalized instruction and feedback. Mentoring is intended to increase an individual's personal or professional capacity, resulting in greater professional effectiveness.
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Programs: A Head Start program that serves families who are engaged in agricultural work and who have changed their residence from one geographical location to another in the preceding two-year period.
Mixed Delivery System/Diverse Delivery System: Refers to an integrated system of early childhood education services that are offered through a variety of programs and providers (e.g., Head Start, Licensed Family Child Care, public school, and CBOs) and are supported with a combination of public and private funding.
Modification: Refers to a strategy that changes or modifies what a child with special needs is expected to learn. For example, a child with a cognitive impairment may only be expected to learn and demonstrate comprehension of a portion of the material taught to a typically developing child. Only children with IEPs are entitled to modifications. Compare with: Accommodation.
Monitoring: The process used to enforce child care providers' compliance with licensing rules and regulations. States use "differential monitoring" as a regulatory method for determining the frequency or depth of monitoring based on an assessment of the child care facility's compliance history and other quality indicators.
Montessori: Refers to a system of education for young children that seeks to develop natural interests and activities rather than use formal teaching methods. The Montessori Method fosters rigorous, self-motivated growth for children and adolescents in all areas of their development-cognitive, emotional, social, and physical.
McKinney-Vento Act: The primary piece of federal legislation related to the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness. The Act authorizes the federal Education of Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) Program with entitles homeless children and youth to a Free, Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), including a Preschool education.
Mentoring: A form of Professional Development characterized by an ongoing relationship between a novice and an experienced teacher or provider to deliver personalized instruction and feedback. Mentoring is intended to increase an individual's personal or professional capacity, resulting in greater professional effectiveness.
Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Programs: A Head Start program that serves families who are engaged in agricultural work and who have changed their residence from one geographical location to another in the preceding two-year period.
Mixed Delivery System/Diverse Delivery System: Refers to an integrated system of early childhood education services that are offered through a variety of programs and providers (e.g., Head Start, Licensed Family Child Care, public school, and CBOs) and are supported with a combination of public and private funding.
Modification: Refers to a strategy that changes or modifies what a child with special needs is expected to learn. For example, a child with a cognitive impairment may only be expected to learn and demonstrate comprehension of a portion of the material taught to a typically developing child. Only children with IEPs are entitled to modifications. Compare with: Accommodation.
Monitoring: The process used to enforce child care providers' compliance with licensing rules and regulations. States use "differential monitoring" as a regulatory method for determining the frequency or depth of monitoring based on an assessment of the child care facility's compliance history and other quality indicators.
Montessori: Refers to a system of education for young children that seeks to develop natural interests and activities rather than use formal teaching methods. The Montessori Method fosters rigorous, self-motivated growth for children and adolescents in all areas of their development-cognitive, emotional, social, and physical.