The HighScope Curriculum is validated by data from this project.
What is the Perry Preschool Study?
100
A predictable sequence of events.
What is a daily routine?
100
Adults support the child's current level of thinking and challenge the child to advance his/her abilities to reason, problem solve, or create.
What is adult-scaffolding?
100
The central aspect of how adults and children interact in a preschool classroom.
What is shared control?
100
In a HighScope classroom, teachers record this on children throughout the day.
What are daily anecdotal notes?
200
In a HighScope classroom, these materials can be used in many different ways.
What are open-ended materials?
200
During planning time this is used to maintain children's interest.
What is a prop?
200
The primary means by which children construct social, emotional, intellectual, and physical knowledge.
What is active learning?
200
In a HighScope classroom, adults focus on children's _______ when interacting with them.
What are their strengths?
200
In a HighScope classroom, this tool is used to provide accurate and objective information about how children are learning and developing.
What is the child observation record (COR)?
300
HighScope identifies these as the building blocks of thinking and reasoning.
What are key developmental indicators (KDIs)?
300
This 15-20 minute period is when children experiment with materials and solve problems in an activity adults have chosen for a particular purpose.
What is small group time?
300
The five ingredients of active learning.
What is materials, manipulation, choice, child language and thought, and adult-scaffolding?
300
In a HighScope classroom adults use _________ instead of praise.
What is encouragement?
300
This tool is used to assess a HighScope preschool classroom.
What is the preschool program quality assessment (PQA)?
400
The adult assigned to a group of children in a classroom.
What is a primary caregiver?
400
The sharing of creative movement and music ideas and building a sense of community for children, typically lasting 10-15 minutes.
What is large group time?
400
Adults provide this in an active learning setting.
What are materials, space, and time?
400
The HighScope curriculum advocates for this type of climate in the classroom.
What is a supportive climate?
400
To work most effectively, teaching team members need uninterrupted time for __________ so that they can share observations of children and determine what to do next.
What is daily planning?
500
The illustration of the curriculum principals that guide HighScope preschool teachers in there daily work with children.
What is the HighScope Wheel of Learning?
500
Greeting time, message board, planning time, work time, recall time, outside time, small group time, transition, large group time, and meal or resting periods.
What are the components to a HighScope daily routine?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! These are some types of materials for active participatory learning.
What are practical everyday objects, natural and found materials, tools, messy materials, heavy or bulky materials, and easy-to-handle materials?
500
These are the steps in resolving conflicts with preschoolers.
What is approach calmly, acknowledge children's feelings, gather information, restate the problem, ask for ideas for solutions and choose one together, and be prepared to give follow-up support?
500
This type of assessment includes observations, portolios of children's work, and ratings of children's behavior by familiar.