School Readiness
These are required by all Head Start programs. The expectations of children's development across domains of language and literacy development, cognition and general knowledge, approaches to learning, physical well-being and motor development, and social and emotional.
What are school readiness goals?
Set up the environment, position staff, scan and count, listen, anticipate children's behavior, and engage and redirect.
What are active supervision strategies?
The assessment tool used by teachers to document observations made regarding child's ability using 38 objectives for learning and development.
What is Teaching Strategies Gold?
Percentage of disabilities that a Head Start program MUST serve.
What is 10%
The child's first and most influential teacher.
Who is the parent?
This group includes parents, teachers, administrative staff, community members, and school district representatives. They meet at least one time per year, more often as needed, and provide input regarding school readiness procedures, transition process, curricula selection, and child development outcomes.
What is School Readiness Committee
Room arrangement, use of lesson plans with intentional teaching experiences, developmentally appropriate classroom rules, system in place for children to select the centers they want to play in, classroom jobs for children, fostering positive warm relationships between teacher and children, positive redirection, social stories, availability of a quiet spot children can choose to use.
What are positive and proactive classroom management strategies?
This report is available after every checkpoint and can be used by the teacher to individualize lesson plans and learning activities to meet the need of the individual child. This report is considered part of the child's education record.
What is Individual Child Report from Teaching Strategies?
Percentage of over income families that a Head Start program is allowed to serve.
What is 10%?
Learning Objectives, Development and Learning Report, Parent Conference Form, Alphabet Knowledge Checklist, Number Concepts Checklists, Shape Concepts Checklist, and Home Visit form.
What are the documents shared during home visits and parent teacher conferences?
This framework is research based and describes how children progress across key areas of learning and development. It includes five central domains: Aproaches to Learning, Social and Emotional Development, Language and Literacy, Cognition, and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
What is the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework?
One to two times per year each classroom is observed by a trained observer. This observation is used to assess the quality of teacher-child interactions. Feedback is provided to each teaching team which identifies the strengths and areas of improvement. Coaching is based on areas to improve.
What is a CLASS observation?
Teachers adapt and scaffold the learning activities based on the developmental needs of the children.
What is individualization?
What is 1:10?
Educational activities shared during home visits and parent teacher conferences, "Look What's Happening is our room plan, and Lesson Plan input form.
What are ways to partner with families in their child's learning?
Specific dates throughout the program year which teachers 'lock in' the child's developmental level in all 38 Objectives for development and learning in Teaching Strategies. These dates happen 3 times during a school year. The data gathered is analyzed and used to update School Readiness goals.
What are Teaching Strategies GOLD checkpoints?
This is created at the beginning of the school year and posted in the classroom, with pictures for the children. It includes teacher directed activities, such as, large group and small group, along with child directed activities, such as, free choice and outdoor experiences. Routines like meals, rest time, and transitions are included too.
What is daily schedule?
Teachers document which children they will individualize for on each intentional teaching experience on this weekly document.
What is the weekly lesson plan?
Number of square feet per child of indoor space a classroom space a classroom needs for the care and use of children.
What is 35 sq ft per child?
Sessions provided during parent meetings that include Connection and Relationships, Composure, Assertiveness, Empathy, Consequences.
What is the Conscious Discipline parent curriculum?
Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (HSELOF), Nebraska Early Learning Standards, and local school districts Kindergarten entry expectations.
What are the frameworks that Head Start School Readiness Goals are aligned with?
Teachers post signs and labels using pictures and words throughout the classroom. There are multiple examples of environmental print used. Teachers practice self-talk, parallel-talk, prompting back and forth exchanges with children, ask open-ended questions, and encourage talk between peers. Teachers understand they are the language models for the children in the classroom.
What is a language rich learning environment?
Statements, videos or pictures that are objective and state exactly what a child was observed doing, not what they 'should' be able to do. These statements are entered into Teaching Strategies Gold and used assess child growth and development.
What are child observations or documentation?
What is 1,020 hours?
Conducted 4 times per year in order to create partnership between families and teachers regarding the child's learning and development.
What are home visits and parent teacher conferences?