Curriculum
Previously known as TSG and MyTeachingStrategies
What is SmartTeach?
Did the training "Transforming Chaotic Classrooms" for August professional development.
Brandon Williams
A document that is used to remove or transfer a child from SmartTeach.
What is form EDU 07 or change of child form?
An activity done in the morning that prepares the brain for optimal learning?
What is a Brain Smart Start?
The process of writing down what you see and hear during the course of the day. It includes factual non-bias statements regarding children's skills and behaviors.
What is observations or documentation?
Centers on a topic that is meaningful and interesting to children, follows a consistent structure, and unfolds over a period of 4-6 weeks.
What is an investigation?
The process of moving from one activity, environment, or part of the day to the next activity.
What is a transition?
A form that is used when a teacher is meeting a child's family for the first or last time.
What is EDU 15 and 16 or home visit forms?
Refers to the lowest part of the brain functioning that stimulates fight, flight or freeze reactions.
What is the brain stem?
The document that is used to align documentation to learning and development in children from birth to grade three.
What is Objectives for Development and Learning?
It includes activities such as: arrival, read aloud, large group, lunch.
What is a daily schedule?
A system in which children move their photo to the "present" side of a chart to visually indicate that they are at school today.
What is a Home School chart?
The form that is used for documenting children's behaviors.
What is form EDU 08 or the Behavior Tracking Form?
It consists of cognitive fuctions such as: working memory, sustained attention, time management, emotional control.
What are Executive functioning skills?
A set of objectives related to school readiness.
What are SRGs or School Readiness Goals?
A dynamic and intentional environment designed to support young children's growth and development through exploration, interactions, and play.
What is the learning environment or a preschool classroom?
A system that enables children to choose a play center, with limits on the number of children allowed in each center at a time.
What is a Center check in check out system. Or a
center management system?
A form that is completed prior to the first day of school that makes sure all the required classroom elements are in place.
What is EDU 12 or Classroom Monitoring Checklist?
The act of actively calming through deep breathing.
What is an activity to disengage stress?
An ongoing assessment that is conducted three times a year.
What is a checkpoint period?
An activity that focuses on building skills in specific areas that includes 2-4 children at a time.
What is an Intentional Teaching Experience or small group activity?
A structured active supervision system that designates specific locations and clearly defined duties to each teacher.
What is Zoning for learning or just Zoning?
A form that states objectives that children will be proficient in prior to kindergarten.
What is EDU 01 or School Readiness Goals?
Items found in the Safe place that helps children solve problems and activity calm.
What is the Solution Tool Kit?
A report that is run after checkpoints to review for accuracy and future planning.
What is the Class Profile report?